An article published yesterday (Monday) in "Israel Today" revealed that a number of models from Maayan Adam's new jewelry collection, Madame, are very similar to jewelry sold at a significantly cheaper price by Express and Shine.
The revelation has of course and as expected caused a stir on the net, but this is far from being the first time (and probably the last) that celebrities have been accused of copying (rightly or wrongly).
Here are some similar cases that have starred in headlines in recent years.
Aline Cohen and Mor Maman
Aline Cohen VS Moore Maman, Photo: Instagram
The two successful beauty priestesses found themselves at the center of a network scandal in 2020 when they both launched a grooming lipstick almost simultaneously.
Cohen claimed to have worked on the product a year before its launch, and that its competitors, including former beauty queen Moore Maman, were ahead of it in marketing.
She posted an angry story on Instagram in which she wrote, among other things: "I am currently addressing all the expensive moles watching this story from a fake page. I know that you are addressing all my suppliers and factories in Israel, China and around the world. I will make life easy for you. "Who are about to leave so that you do not have to work hard behind the scenes and you can take the product out before me or imitate me."
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Maman did not remain indifferent to the storm and accusations, raising her own response in which she claimed that "as can be seen systematically, after every product I put up for sale, that day she announces that she just happens to be planning to put out the same product. My team and I work on every product for months. "It seems delusional to me to refer to such angular accusations, since it is also easy to notice that only after I put the product up for sale does it advertise that it is also just putting out such, and in practice it has nothing in hand."
Shai Mika
Shai Mika Yifrach, Photo: Ronen Ackerman
In 2020, Shai Mika released a collection of swimwear in question, but this one soon ran into a furious attack when she was accused by many surfers of copying, and that her so-called original models can be found on other sites at significantly cheaper prices.
Shai Mika initially claimed that she was exposed to competition against heavy artillery in the world and noted that things were done behind her back and that the collection was passed on to other competitors as well.
A few months later, when it came out with a new collection, it was again attacked by surfers with similar claims about copying and much cheaper prices on sites, including the Polar Shine site.
This time, too, she rejected the accusations and said, among other things: "The claim that I buy swimwear on the websites at a certain price and sell at another price is simply incorrect and detached from reality."
Linor Sabinik
Linor Sabinik and a photo from a parallel website
About two weeks ago, Sabinik was accused by Instagram surfers that her new advertisement for her brand Duchess was copied from the KKW makeup brand campaign by Kim Kardashian, but this was not the first time that Sabinik found herself accused of copying.
In July 2021, Sabinik was about to launch her fashion brand Stefania and unveiled several models from the collection online.
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Surfers were quick to point out that the models presented are similar to those that can be found with express owners at much cheaper prices.
Sabinik took care to clarify then that the site of its brand is divided into categories and the goods on the site consist of import and personal design.
Oak birch and Bertha
White right, Berta left, Photo: Instagram, Nir Peking
In 2018, singer Eden Ben Zaken married Shuki Bitton in a well-publicized and glorious wedding.
Ben Zaken changed into three dresses on which designer Bertha Belilty had faith.
The one who was less enthusiastic about what his eyes saw was the wedding dress designer Alon Livne, who argued for a clear resemblance between Ben Zaken's wedding dress and the dress he designed last season.
In a protest move, Birch uploaded a photo from the collection to his Instagram, in which a model wearing a wedding dress almost identical to the one designed by Berta Ben Zaken could be seen, and on the photo he wrote "2018 collection".
Berta for her part chose to respond with the following words: "In the personal design process done with Eden, Eden fell in love with the wedding dress that Berta designed for her daughter Hila in 2012 and asked that this dress inspire her dress from corset to gloves, and the result is an innovative and personal design for Eden. "Trouble for other designers and wish them success."
Alon Livne and Dana Harel
The story of Livna, Photo: Instagram
Manor in a wedding dress by Dana Harel, Photo: Alon Gruber
It was not just Bertha who was in Livna's sights.
In a story uploaded by his well-known fashion designer to his Instagram in July last year, Livneh claimed that wedding dress designer Dana Harel had worn his wedding dress after it was spotted on Manor Bartov in her wedding episode of the final season of "Wedding at First Sight."
"This is not the first time this has happened here in our little swamp, but it's like that in prime time, one by one?"
Birch rage in the story he brought up.
Harel, for her part, denied the copying and said in a bio-permit: "Alon Livne is a veteran and talented designer. I appreciate him professionally and wish him only the best."
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In May 2021 the successful rapper announced that he was about to release a new clothing collection.
Among the details in question was also a coat decorated with dollars that was very reminiscent of the famous coat that Kirel wore in the clip for her successful single "Million Dollars" and was designed by the young Israeli designer Gal Ullman.
"Friends tagged me on Instagram, and it really looked like a copy," the 21-year-old Ullman told us in an item that appeared on "Israel Today."
"I went in there and realized it was going to be a commercial line that's putting out. I admit I was surprised, to my taste it looked like a copy. The combination of materials, the dollars put in - let's say it's not the most standard or conventional combination. "It's a bit like a compliment. If they saw it abroad and decided to copy it - it's flattering to our industry."
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