Ivanka and Jared 2: Tarnished Gold

[AmazonGrace]

This is Jared. He wants a security clearance. You can't always get what you want. 

 

[fraurosena]

On 7/13/2018 at 7:54 AM, AmazonGrace said:

This is Jared. He wants a security clearance. You can't always get what you want. 

 

I'm not convinced he's not reviewing sensitive intelligence anyway, despite the fact he hasn't got the clearance to do so. I mean, who's going to check what does or doesn't see? 

[fraurosena]

 

[AnywhereButHere]

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Hudson’s Bay’s decision should not come as a surprise to Canadians. According to the Guardian, an activist group called the “Peeved Beavers” have been leading demonstrations against the store over the past year. And, of course, it has also been faced with the ultimate kiss of death for any fashion line — poor brand performance.

It's the 5 year old child in me that is hysterically laughing over her representation in tis company being brought down by a group called the "Peeved Beavers". So innocuous, yet so effective. 

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/whats-hot/ivanka-trump’s-clothing-line-pulled-from-yet-another-department-store/ar-AAA4qbK?li=BBnbfcL

 

[AmazonGrace]

This is Jared. He sounds nice 

 

Edited July 16, 2018 by AmazonGrace

[GreyhoundFan]

I realized Princess and Jared have been keeping a relatively low profile recently. I didn't see her in any of the pictures from the NATO fiasco or the Scottish golf vacay. Normally, she'd be all over the coverage. I wonder if she didn't go or if she is keeping a lower profile.

[AmazonGrace]

 

This is Jared. He is ducking lawsuits. 

They should get a foreign lobbyist to serve Jared because Jared meets with foreign lobbyists

Edited July 18, 2018 by AmazonGrace

[Smoochie]

Imma leave this right here, an article from online People  .... hahahaha, highly unlikely!

 

Trump Complains That Ivanka Would Be Hailed as 'Totally Brilliant' if Her Last Name Was Smith

Edited July 19, 2018 by Smoochie

[onekidanddone]

28 minutes ago, Smoochie said:

Imma leave this right here, an article from online People  .... hahahaha, highly unlikely!

 

Trump Complains That Ivanka Would Be Hailed as 'Totally Brilliant' if Her Last Name Was Smith

Right a totally brilliant stable Barbie 

[GreyhoundFan]

Hypocrite Barbie:

 

[AmazonGrace]

 

[onekidanddone]

8 hours ago, AmazonGrace said:

 

I swear princess Snowflake and who ever that is on the couch must have the hair stylist. Or is a wig? I want to scream at them to stop perpetuating the stereotype. 

[AmazonGrace]

Sweatshop Barbie is bailing out:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/ivanka-trump-closing-her-namesake-fashion-brand-1532452229

IIRC some of her stuff was sold under Adriana Vittadini, no word about what happens to that one.

[faraway]

Thought I'd post this here, it's indirectly related. Jared's brother Joshua got engaged to Karlie Kloss today. Ivanka commented how excited she is they are becoming "sisters!!!". Joshua & Karlie are self-proclaimed liberals who protest gun violence yet seem very close with Jared and Ivanka overall. I wonder how brands will react to that, Karlie is cooperating with many big names and the Trump connection is not a good look.

 

Edited July 24, 2018 by faraway

[onekidanddone]

57 minutes ago, faraway said:

Thought I'd post this here, it's indirectly related. Jared's brother Joshua got engaged to Karlie Kloss today. Ivanka commented how excited she is they are becoming "sisters!!!". Joshua & Karlie are self-proclaimed liberals who protest gun violence yet seem very close with Jared and Ivanka overall. I wonder how brands will react to that, Karlie is cooperating with many big names and the Trump connection is not a good look.

 

Something isn’t right with this. To shutter so quickly at a time when more shit about shady business deals are coming to light just seems odd. Either she is hiding assets or is divesting before the shit show hits the fan I don’t know. 

Now I’m not a stable genius, but I think this doesn’t pass the sniff test 

Edited July 25, 2018 by onekidanddone

[Cartmann99]

I had a crazy thought about Ivanka's decision to shut down her clothing line. What if she's decided she wants to be president in 2024, but thinks she could win people over by going the old fashioned route of devoting her time to seeking a lower office first?

There's a graphic going around social media where she and her brothers* all serve two terms after their father. If she actually believes she has a future in politics, will that be her excuse for shuttering her business?

*Tiffany isn't on the chart. Since my hobbies don't include slamming my head in the car door and drinking bleach, I don't know why that is the case.

[GreyhoundFan]

"The game was rigged in Ivanka Trump’s favor. How did her brand manage to fail?"

Spoiler

The news that senior White House adviser (and first daughter) Ivanka Trump will shut down her eponymous clothing line was a minor development this week. On the tragedy scale, it’s squarely in microscopic violin territory, and it’s even a positive development for people who have boycotted her products as a protest of the Trump administration’s policies. But it is still surprising.

People are going to lose jobs — though not the president or Ivanka Trump, of course — and that’s never cause for celebration. Maybe they can sign up for the job-retraining programs that Ivanka Trump announced last week her father’s administration would set up. But there is something remarkable about a business that fails even when the founder has managed to leverage herself into a powerful position in the White House and proceeded to shamelessly exploit it for business purposes, likely in violation of the emoluments clause of the Constitution, with no repercussions whatsoever.

In Trump’s case, she has  even managed to induce Hatch Act violations from White House staffers so eager to enable her profiteering that they promote her products on cable news shows, as Kellyanne Conway did on national television last year. The executive office has presented numerous new opportunities for Trump to meet with potential new business partners, get trademarks approved in other countries and pursue new potential avenues of financing.

So how did this happen? How did Ivanka Trump lose a game that had been so heavily rigged in her favor?

The simplest and most obvious explanation for any business failure would be that the product is bad, that the business failed because the clothes are terrible, and no one wants to buy them. But what does terrible mean in that context? Is the quality low? Is the aesthetic unappealing? Is the brand ill-defined?

On all those counts, it depends on your standards. Much has been made about the fact that Trump’s clothes are made overseas, with cheap labor and often cheap materials. But so are a lot of popular fast-casual brands.

The aesthetic has been partially pilfered from other designers. (Trump was sued by the Italian fashion brand Aquazzurra over allegations that she copied its iconic “Wild Thing” sandal that sold for nearly six times as much as Ivanka’s $65 version. The case was settled out of court in November.) It’s a hodgepodge of business-casual looks in colors that might be prefaced with “basic” as a primary descriptor and the kind of swingy floral garden dresses that could alternately be described as “fun and flirty” or “comfortable,” depending on the perceived insecurities of the target customer.

Inasmuch as the style has any coherence, the reviews are all over the place. I posted a photo of an archetypal Trump dress on Twitter asking for a description — a short-sleeved, mid-calf skirt with a large red floral print that would be, in Ivanka-speak, “suitable for day or night,” though maybe trending more toward book club than nightclub. Replies ranged from “country club casual” to “sofa.” Even the Ivanka Trump site, which is presumably written by people invested in particularly appealing descriptions of the products, seems confused. Nearly every item is described as “flattering,” which seems to imply that the primary appeal of the clothes is to mask the perceived physical flaws of the woman wearing them.

It is possible that secular developments in the retail market are more responsible for the demise of Ivanka Trump the brand than is Ivanka Trump herself or any of the potential problems with her products. Marshal Cohen, a retail expert and chief industry adviser for NPD Group, told me that retail in the apparel sector has been lagging behind overall growth in the market. The trend toward fast-casual fashion means that designs turn over at a brutal pace, and it’s hard to compete, especially in high-volume department stores, which are themselves struggling as brick-and-mortar traffic competes with direct and online sales.

Trump herself insists that the only reason the company is folding is that she won’t be returning to it, as she’s too dedicated to her (unpaid) job in her father’s administration. This is a bizarre explanation. People who want to disengage from companies that are working well tend to hire someone else to run them — something Trump in theory already did, if you buy the notion that she divested herself from the business — or they sell them to another company for yet more profit. They don’t, as a matter of course, build a well-functioning institution and suddenly decide to murder it in cold blood, putting their ostensibly successful employees out of jobs and forfeiting future earnings on a whim.

But you might fold the company instead of putting it on the block if the value of the assets were undermined by the amount of debt it had accumulated, if it became a political liability, or if its business activities were likely to be subjected to unwanted legal scrutiny in the course of, say, a federal investigation. Because it’s a private company, and because Ivanka Trump has been just as opaque as her father about her own business dealings, we have no way of knowing.

The kindest (if unlikely) explanation might be that it was all a vanity project and Trump was just bored with it. She wouldn’t be the first socialite to use family money to launch an eponymous fashion line, or the first one to decide that her time would be better spent elsewhere when it turned out to be harder than she thought. It wouldn’t even be the first time a Trump affixed the family name to a product he or she had no demonstrable ability to sell (see also: vodka, steaks, airlines), and when it didn’t work, quietly peeled the sticker off in the hope that no one was looking. In every case, whatever status was associated with the Trump name simply couldn’t compensate for bad products.

To be fair, it’s very difficult to build a sustainable business entirely out of status — even if you’re the Edmund Hillary of social climbing. It’s doubly so if that status is fragile because your father has chosen to use his position as the leader of the free world to diminish the status of the entire country internationally and the office of the president domestically. And when people start to notice that you may be enabling this erosion, there’s a good possibility that they don’t want to enable your financial success. A few months ago, I watched a woman pick up an Ivanka Trump shoe from an unlabeled clearance display at Bloomingdale’s and put it back down in disgust upon examination. I don’t think it was the price that turned her off.

Add to that a tough retail market, potential tariffs on Chinese-manufactured goods (thanks, Dad) and absentee management. In the face of all those obstacles, even with the endless opportunities for grifting off the privileges and free media the White House affords, it still might not work. We’ll see if her new vanity project — the Trump administration — turns out differently.

 

[AmazonGrace]

 

[Smoochie]

8 hours ago, AmazonGrace said:

 

And STILL more than I'd pay!

 

ETA:  How perfect ... Ivanka Trump - made in China !

Edited July 26, 2018 by Smoochie

[AmazonGrace]

Highlights from the profile: yeah, they both have illusions of grandeur. They like Stephen Miller and Bill Shine. Trump prepared for KJU with Jared and Ivanka instead of someone who knows about NK

[GreyhoundFan]

[AmazonGrace]

 

[AmazonGrace]

The Interview Barbie.

 

[candygirl200413]

Why does she have such a weird speech pattern? Have you guys ever noticed?

[AmazonGrace]

It sounded like she had to weigh her words very carefully so she can be daddy's girl and  the "I tried" barbie at the same time

Even so, Daddy had to mansplain what she really meant: