Steve & Barry's & Sarah Jessica Parker's Bitten Clothing Line VS The Budget Fashionista? Attorneys Hit on the Freedom of the Press & Blogosphere
While I have come into this late, I must say I support The Budget Fashionista's running of the photos and commentary on the "less than special" BITTEN line designed by Sarah Jessica Parker to be marketed by Steve & Barry.
While these photos have been online a while now-- at least a month-- at what point does a leak mean pointing a finger at one particular blog that ran the photos and screaming at them when there are OTHER blogs and spots that ran them too?
Methinks they doth protest too much. While we in LA don't have a Steve & Barrys store out here (do we? I haven't heard of it.) I agree with Lesley Scott's post and blog about this egregious use of legal muscle against Kathryn Finney, The Budget Fashionista.
From Fashiontribes' Lesley Scott's post
Wanna see more photos of the collection? Steve & Barry's doesn't want you to. CLICK HERE to find out why.
CLICK HERE to hear the Fashiontribes 5 Min. Podcast about this from Lesley Scott
Good Grief People, it's only a clothing line and it's not that stellar a collection at all -- it's nothing that one is going to queue up around the block for--whoopee. SJP shows that she really gets her style courtesy of her stylist-- and that it doesn't really carry (or Carrie) it off well without the help of stellar stylists and killer designers. In other words-- she's just like you and me and she doesn't get that to put her name on it, she should be very careful what she puts out there because people expect someone who's supposedly a fashionista type to put it together better than anyone at the Gap
So a suggestion-- if you agree with Kathryn Finney's right to freedom of the press and feel that she's the little "girl"/guy being picked on by the behometh attorneys being all mean and nasty, feel free to weigh in at The Budget Fashionista site with a few well-chose words of support
Stevie Wilson



Bottom line: Steve & Barry's has some serious internal corporate issues both on top management levels and with corporate policies. "The key to success begins with top manaagement." Having these kinds of unkowledgable people in the hierarchy just create chaos and mismanagement throughout the entire company which dribbles their horridness into the retail stores for the rest of their employees to suffer through. An entire corporate restructure might even be too late. But if just one corporate suit with half a brain agrees, he/she should fight hard to get the company restructured both on the corporate and financial levels, as well as revise all the corporate policies and procedures. Preferably using common business sense this time?
Posted by: ~V | June 13, 2008 at 10:54 AM
I live in Phoenix. Where is the closest store?
Posted by: Irene Knowles | May 19, 2007 at 01:19 AM
I don't know where they are. You would need to google them. Obviously in the midwest and middle eastern seaboard
Posted by: Stevie | May 18, 2007 at 11:02 PM
you need to google for steve & barry stores and then find them. I haven't seen one in Calif either but that doesn't mean they aren't here
Stevie
Posted by: Stevie | May 18, 2007 at 10:59 PM
I live in maine and would like to know where there is a store near me.
Posted by: cathy | May 18, 2007 at 05:12 PM