You can vote for Sean John's I Am King as the Luxe Men's fragrance of the year in the FiFi Awards 2009 on the FiFi website
Sean John has launched "The Face of the Future" contest on their website, in hopes of finding some men that will model the Fall/Winter 2009 collection. You can upload your photo on the site and people can vote on it.
According to SoJones, the top 10 most popular entries will have the opportunity to meet with an executive from Sean John during the first week of May with the winner being selected on May 8. SoJones says the deadline is April 29, but the Sean John website says that it is May 1. Either way, if you are interested, you should submit an entry soon.
Estee Lauder has reported a second quarter profit decline:
Estee Lauder’s net income fell 30 percent to $158 million, or 80 cents a share, in the three months through Dec. 31 from $224.4 million, or $1.14, a year earlier. Analysts estimated profit of 77 cents, the average of 12 projections compiled by Bloomberg, after Estee Lauder said on Jan. 16 profit would range from 75 cents to 82 cents. ...
Revenue declined 13 percent to $2.04 billion, hurt by a consumer-spending slowdown at department stores and in air travel, which affects duty-free shopping, the company said in the statement. Ten analysts predicted revenue of $2.03 billion.
Sean John is part of the Estee Lauder portfolio of designer fragrances. In a filing, they state:
Second Quarter Fiscal 2009 as Compared with Second Quarter Fiscal 2008 ...
Net sales of fragrance products decreased 20%, or $105.5 million, to $415.0 million. This decline was largely due to lower sales of designer fragrances, of which approximately $59 million was attributable to DKNY Be Delicious, Sean John Unforgivable, DKNY Red Delicious Women, Sean John Unforgivable Woman and certain Tommy Hilfiger fragrances. ...
Six Months Fiscal 2009 as Compared with Six Months Fiscal 2008 ...
Net sales of fragrance products decreased 11%, or $90.7 million, to $742.8 million. This decline was largely due to lower sales of designer fragrances, of which approximately $91 million was attributable to Sean John Unforgivable, DKNY Be Delicious, DKNY Red Delicious Women, Donna Karan Cashmere Mist, Sean John Unforgivable Woman and certain Tommy Hilfiger fragrances. ...
New York Times' fragrance expert Chandler Burr has written a review of "I Am King." Overall, it's a very positive review.
Perhaps the best Fresh Neon masculine since Mugler Cologne, I Am King has the perfectly calibrated accessibility of Light Blue for Women and deserves to be a massive hit. No detergent, no tin can, no cliché, King is as irresistible as a great pop hook. Marketing people often use the obnoxious word “addictive.” This is, finally, that.
... The fresh-fruit lusciousness floods the senses, floats on the skin. Audacious. Inventive. And olfactorily impressive.
Via Cityfile.
Tom Patti, a glass artist based out of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, filed a lawsuit in US District Court in Springfield, Massachusetts on Wednesday, claiming that the plastic bottle mount that holds the Sean John Unforgivable fragrance bottle is in violation of his copyrighted work, a pair of glass sculptures that he produced in the 1980s.
This, according to Jonathan Saltzman of the Boston Globe, who notes the lawsuits defendants as Diddy and the supposed designers of the holder, James Gager and Johan Liden. Saltzman sought comment from all three, with Diddy's rep offering no comment and the designers being unreachable.
In a lawsuit filed in US District Court in Springfield Wednesday, Tom Patti, 65, contends that the cologne's packaging - the bottle fits inside an attractive ridged plastic cradle - is a ripoff of two copyrighted tabletop glass sculptures he created in the early 1980s called "Compacted Gray With Clear and Ribs'' and ``Modulated Solar Airframe.''
"A couple of years ago, my phone started ringing," the glass artist said yesterday in a phone interview. "Everywhere I went, people started congratulating me on the success of my fragrance container. I didn't know what they were talking about. Eventually, I realized that Combs had replicated my work."
The article features a side by side comparison of the Unforgivable holder and one of the sculptures and, to be honest, I see where there is a similarity, but only in vague ways that would not imply any sort of infringement or, perhaps, even influence. You can't trademark "gray box with lines" and if I put the two boxes side by side, that is the only similarity I see. Check out Patti's work and now look at the Sean John bottle holder.
The Sean John cradle is different in that the lines themselves are noticeably different. They are also on all sides and the bottle does not have the bulge that appears in the Patti sculpture. The Sean John bottle also has a different level of translucence and is more open ended.
For a legally minded opinion, I spoke with Jonathan Bailey, a copyright and plagiarism consultant who authors PlagiarismToday, a blog aimed at discussing and analyzing news and issues related to plagiarism and copyright infringement. I co-host the Copyright 2.0 Show alongside Jonathan.
"Though I agree that there are some similarities between the two products. I feel that there are more than enough differences to distinguish them and the similarities most likely can not be copyrighted at all," he said. "I sympathize with the sculptor in that he feels his work was misused, but I think the law is against him on this one. Typically, on these types of derivative work cases, I tend to "bet" on it not being a derivative as the bar for these things is set pretty high and it's a hard measure to meet on the best of cases."
The Providence Journal has an interview with Graehme Field, who won an internship at Sean John.
Field said the internship at Sean John taught him a lot about the process of creating a fashion collection for the mass market, but it also taught him that New York gets much of its inspiration from Europe. That’s where he hopes to continue his studies, in a couture house in Paris or Milan.
Women's Wear Daily solicited design sketches from a large selection of clothing designers, essentially asking them what Barack Obama would wear in inauguration night, if dressed by them.
One of the participants is Sean John and you can see their submissions here, here and here. You can also vote on your favorites.
Via Elizabeth Snead.
Diddy has launched a competition in promotion of "I Am King" where three men will be selected for an all expenses paid trip to New York City, including airfare, accommodations, transportation, dinner, a $500 shopping spree at the Sean John store, a tour of the Bad Boy offices and, of course, some "I Am King". For details on how to enter, check out this video:
You can enter at the new "I Am King" website. It's a cool site, if light on content. It has some downloadable wallpapers and AIM icons, for those interested.
The competition ends January 25.
Mary Beth of INF Daily has a video interview with Diddy on "I Am King," it's creation and the story about the name.
Via Liz Kelly.
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