Designer Paris Starn States Alleged Plagiarism Issue Has Been Resolved With SM

[juhli.livejournal.com]

Designer Paris Starn and SM Entertainment have announced that the issues regarding alleged plagiarism involving Red Velvet’s outfits have been resolved.

Earlier this month, the designer took to the official Instagram account of her clothing brand Paris 99 to raise questions regarding the similarities between her work and outfits Red Velvet wore in their “Umpah Umpah” music video. She stated that SM Entertainment had never reached out to her for a collaboration, despite the outfits worn by Red Velvet taking “heavy inspiration” from her own work.

The issue has now been resolved as Paris Starn took to Paris 99’s Instagram account to post the following message, “After speaking with SM Entertainment’s visual director, we’ve come to an amicable understanding of each other and become friends, and look forward to working together in the future.”

SM Entertainment also stated, “We’ve spoken extensively with the designer of Paris 99, and we now have reached an understanding and share an amicable relationship. We plan to collaborate with them in the future.”

source: paris99, soompi, naver

Comments

[gathyou.livejournal.com]

I guess they paid her? Anyway I'm glad they were able to resolve this!

[kcaomei.livejournal.com]

i'm glad it worked out amicably! although SM should've just asked permission to begin with lol

[lizanka23.livejournal.com]

Exactly. Especially now that anything can be found on the internet so people were going to find out eventually

[lizanka23.livejournal.com]

They better actually work with her in the future

[sra-interesante.livejournal.com]

Good for her

i remember something similar happened to gfriend and original designer didnt gave a sh*t about kpop agency using their patterns

sm needs to be careful if they think nobody will notice those kind of details... in this case kpop fans pettiness actually helped a designer career and that's always a plus

hopefully sm will keep thet promise of collaborating in the future 👍

[bookwurm92.livejournal.com]

With gfriend it was an actual pattern company, not a designer. So they bought vintage patterns and used them to make the performance clothes.

[hallyujah.livejournal.com]

Now anytime someone pays me I'm gonna say "we became friends!" lolz

[goshipgurl.livejournal.com]

so how much did they pay her?

[dongsaengkiller.livejournal.com]

I hope that friendship came with a check 😏

[carmine-pink.livejournal.com]

I actually think RV's version was better, the original ones looked too much like tablecloths lol. Good that SM paid up though.

[oh-folk.livejournal.com]

Dead @ people in the Instagram comments saying she could have ruined RV's reputation... like, are you kidding me?

I'm glad she got her $$$. If I weren't a broke bitch I'd buy a dress; they cute af.