{"id":54849,"date":"2015-07-08T21:15:47","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T13:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=54849"},"modified":"2015-07-09T00:40:23","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T16:40:23","slug":"young-designer-allegedly-plagiarized-rajo-laurels-original-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/07\/08\/young-designer-allegedly-plagiarized-rajo-laurels-original-top\/","title":{"rendered":"Young designer allegedly plagiarized Rajo Laurel&#8217;s original top"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_54853\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54853\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/iris.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-54853\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/iris.jpg\" alt=\"Rajo Laurel's 'Iris' top (Photo: Fashion Pulis)\" width=\"750\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/iris.jpg 750w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/iris-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/iris-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-54853\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rajo Laurel&#8217;s &#8216;Iris&#8217; top (Photo: Fashion Pulis)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; Filipino fashion designer to the stars and entrepreneur Rajo Laurel exploded on Twitter recently after discovering that his &#8216;Iris&#8217; top was allegedly copied by a young designer on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>Laurel took to Twitter and blatantly called out to a certain Mariella Garcia, the owner\/designer of 37 LA Online Shop (@37la_al73 on Instagram), asking his followers to tell the designer to stop copying his creations before he takes legal action.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Can someone tell this designer to STOP copying my <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/iris?src=hash\">#iris<\/a> top?!!! I Am about to take legal action &#x1f621; <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/VhsLR4swkj\">pic.twitter.com\/VhsLR4swkj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rajo Laurel (@rajolaurel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rajolaurel\/status\/617658660781625345\">July 5, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s a huge difference from inspiration &amp; Blatant copying &amp; plagiarism!!! Plagiarism is a criminal act!&#8221; Laurel tweeted, showing a screenshot of 37 LA&#8217;s Instagram profile.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>\nThere&#8217;s a huge difference from inspiration &amp; Blatant copying &amp; plagiarism!!!! Plagiarism is a criminal act! <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/4wsLh0ZdzU\">pic.twitter.com\/4wsLh0ZdzU<\/a> \u2014 Rajo Laurel (@rajolaurel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rajolaurel\/status\/617659444084609024\">July 5, 2015<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Several posts on 37 LA&#8217;s account shows photos of customers &#8212; including some celebrities &#8212; wearing her creations, including the &#8216;Luna&#8217; top, which Laurel claims to be plagiarized from him.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 658px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-version=\"4\">\n<div style=\"padding: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background: #F8F8F8; line-height: 0; margin-top: 40px; padding: 50% 0; text-align: center; width: 100%;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;\"><a style=\"color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;\" href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/p\/3XkS3CDwWM\/\" target=\"_top\">Love your own! In white luna top.&#x1f60a; #37LA #designer #custom<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\">A photo posted by 37LA (@37la_al73) on <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2015-06-01T01:33:23+00:00\">May 31, 2015 at 6:33pm PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\" async=\"\" defer=\"defer\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As of posting, Garcia or 37 LA is yet to release a statement or comment about Laurel&#8217;s allegations of plagiarism.<\/p>\n<p>A few hours later, Laurel posted a photo with Atty. Karen Jimeno whose legal advice he was seeking regarding the matter.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_54851\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54851\" style=\"width: 504px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/rajo-laurel-karen-jimeno.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-54851\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/rajo-laurel-karen-jimeno.jpg\" alt=\"Fashion designer Rajo Laurel with Atty. Karen Jimeno (@rajolaurel \/ Twitter)\" width=\"504\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/rajo-laurel-karen-jimeno.jpg 504w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/rajo-laurel-karen-jimeno-300x274.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-54851\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fashion designer Rajo Laurel with Atty. Karen Jimeno (@rajolaurel \/ Twitter)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Filipino fashion designer to the stars and entrepreneur Rajo Laurel exploded on Twitter recently after discovering that his &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":54851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,36,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-fashion-and-beauty","category-news-ph","mauthors-ching-dee","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}