I sympathize with the Forever 21 thing, I do. The first time I ever went there I bought up a huge amount of stuff for a paltry $60 or something like that. Never mind that everything was so synthetic I felt flammable, or that 80% of the items fell apart after their first outing. You can’t ague a crackhead out of their crack, and you can’t argue a rabid shopper out of a steal. Nonetheless, as much as I sympathize, I can’t stand the place, and I absolutely hate it when I tell someone their sweater is cute and ask them where they got it, only to have them chirp, “Forever 21.”

Well, Diane Von Furstenberg hates their corporate, idea stealing ways too, and she’s suing them for ripping off two of her dressed from the Spring/Summer ‘06 line. Her claim states: “Without authorisation or license from DVF, Forever 21 has produced and is marketing, advertising, distributing, offering for sale and selling dresses nearly identical to DVF’s Cerisier and Aubrey dresses that bear print designs identical to the DVF copyrights.”

Here’s the DVF Cerisier:

You like? Either buy the original or (shudder) run like hell to Forever 21 to try and score the knockoff for a tiny fraction of the price before they are all pulled from the racks.