![]() Shortly after, she says they blocked her on social media.įor many independent designers, Hollis’ story is a familiar one. ![]() She filed a complaint via Dolls Kill’s website - which promises to investigate each claim of a copied design - but only received an automated message. “People were like, you should sue and reach out to lawyers, and I did, but when it became too involved I just completely stepped back because it was more important to spend time with my baby girl,” she says. On the right, a similar design sold by Dolls Kill. On the left, a onesie created by designer Jamie Hollis. Later, Hollis says they used the same base pattern for a pastel-pink flamingo costume, as well as a forest green reptile outfit. “I saw this on Dolls Kill and they totally ripped off your design,” it read, followed by a link to a product that looked nearly identical to her “Max” costume. But about a year later - and just moments after giving birth to her second child in the hospital - a friend sent her a concerned message. In return, Hollis would receive $350 dollars and exposure via Lynn’s personal social media page (Hollis shared correspondence with SFGATE substantiating this).Īfter pulling an all-nighter and rushing the costume to Lynn, she got what she was promised. The two struck up a conversation on the peer-to-peer marketplace in 2015 when Lynn spotted Hollis’s “Max” costume inspired by “Where the Wild Things Are.” With Halloween just around the corner, Lynn asked Hollis if she could overnight her a custom design. As Dolls Kill grew, the brand drew viral attention for more than just its designs, with controversies surrounding the sale of a “ Prehistoric Princess Costume” that fetishized Native American culture, a “ Goth is White” T-shirt and a tone deaf social media post by Lynn during the racial unrest of the summer of 2020, which led Dolls Kill to commit to purchasing $1 million worth of products from Black-owned businesses and donating 100% of profits to community organizations.ĭespite those controversies, the San Francisco fashion startup has amassed more than three million Instagram followers and accrued more than $60 million in Series B funding - and suddenly, its leader was interested in Hollis, an Arizona-based seamstress with no more than an Etsy shop to her name. ![]() The positon you are in sucks but you are lucky that the tax and customs no longer exist like they used to or you would have lost so much more.The company, which was initially a “viral” brand that existed on social media and exclusively sold fox tail keychains, rapidly gained an audience when Lynn talked about it to her fans during her DJ sets. You probably won't get full price unless they are deadstock because unfortunately people are quite stingey now and expect everything to be cheaper but you might recoup most of the costs and in cash rather than losing £65 and only receiving store credit, it really depends on how many shoes you have and what sizes etc otherwise I expect you will have to shell out the postage costs to get the store credit back.įortunately you ordered at a time that sales tax is now included in the checkout after brexit, about a year ago you would have also encountered huge import VAT fees and customs too if you paid over £130. I think your best bet would be to resell on vinted, depop, ebay or one of the Facebook buy sell groups. It sucks but we can't expect companies to pay our return shipping costs on everything, as its near impossible for a company to know if something will fit you or not, however I do agree that a lot of dollskill shoes do run small and it is incredibly annoying. ![]() I personally don't agree with their store credit only policy and the fact that they won't pay for return shipping on faulty items but I have to be honest and say that even a lot of UK companies won't pay return shipping on items unless they are faulty because its not really viable for companies to pay the shipping costs on items that don't fit or aren't to our tastes etc because our bodies are all different and unfortunately it's the risk we take when ordering clothes or shoes online that we can't try on. Even within the UK, boots can be expensive to ship. Unfortunately it's down to the weight of shoes.
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