Summer is Off to a Crap Start for Urban Outfitters

Urban Outfitters might not be enjoying the Memorial Day weekend as much as the rest of us now that a jewelry copycat caper is ping-ponging all over social media.

Earlier this week, a jewelry designer simply known as Stevie with a Tumblr account, i make shiny things, and an Etsy store called truche wrote a post about how Urban Outfitters stole her design. Everything right down to the name of the line of trinkets. “The World/United States of Love line that I created is one of the reasons that I was able to quit my full-time job,” wrote the designer.

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