Here’s the Dolce & Gabbana lace suit that Mrs Muscat’s dressmaker knocked off
And despite copying the picture, s/he didn’t even get the buttons on the proper side. It also says a lot about Mrs Muscat that despite her self-professed love for fashion, she didn’t notice that the buttons are on the wrong side or maybe she thought there’s nothing wrong with wearing her buttons like a man.
Anyway, this Dolce & Gabbana picture illustrates how an outfit like this should be worn, to say nothing of who by, and in which age-group.
What gets me most, though, is the idea that our prime minister’s wife is the sort who gets knock-offs made from pictures instead of having the imagination to come up with her own ideas.
The knock-off is not a good look for a prime minister’s wife for one other reason: it’s basically ‘plagiarising’ another person’s work.
And when it’s copied really badly, as this has been, it fails on all counts. Compare the collars, for instance.
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That’s like me walking down Republic Street in this:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DeverIwvj9g/TTIJ3vzMebI/AAAAAAAAjXs/qEBmxGtlMMo/s1600/Dolce+%2526+Gabbana+Menswear+Fall+2011-5.jpg
And looking like this:
http://www.alamy.com/thumbs/6/%7B4A19EA6F-F58A-40CE-9632-C9F2E41E5E4B%7D/AFRCA0.jpg
Baxxter, you’re killing me.
Plagiarism, now where did we hear this before?
The whole weird bunch only know how to copy. Not one original thought.
When they’re confronted with their first major challenge, we’re screwed.
The Prime Minister’s wife should on occasions like these wear the real thing and not a copy.
Thank God for small mercies. If she wore the original thing, her underwear would be on show.
Compare the waddle.
Why does Joseph Muscat have to look so awkward at everything?
What kind of man walks with his hand in a fist?
Look at the Gonzis, the Frendos and that man behind Joseph. They’re all walking with their hands freely by their side.
Lawrence and Kate particularly seem to be enjoying the stroll. Even Michelle is trying to interact with the crowd using her free hand.
Is it because he feels inferior next to the others? Is it because he doesn’t want to hold his wife’s hand in public? Is it because he’s missing his podium?
Any psychologists out there who care to comment?
The man who walks with his hand in a fist is a communist dictator, Stalin Style.
Simple. He is acting the part and is never comfortable being himself. His inferiority complex is glaringly obvious and he tries to hide it but ends up behaving like a little shit.
His insecurity not inferiority complex may I say.
I think he’s afraid of his responsibilities, and more afraid when everyone smiles at him (read more about his smiles in Daphne’s article today) he probably interprets those smiles like when he smiles at his next prey.
Smile at him, and he starts to worry. I tell you it works wonders.
‘Copying’ outfits off the catwalks is very common in Malta especially with certain mothers of the bride and groom who go to the most popular textiles outlets with a picture cut from a magazine and expect to match the textile (often failing profusely) while hoping that their dressmaker will match the style.
I’ve seen many a result and it’s invariably always a disaster.
Maybe he’s clutching a panic button and feared it might slip away.
A gesture inspired by this, perhaps?
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/70763952/Benito+Mussolini+99WON_97_Mussolini_1242431s.jpg
I think it becomes imperative to know whether this outfit was her idea and who the dressmaker was.
Either she’s utterly capricious in her decisions or else easily led. That she’s increasingly inadequate with the ‘style’ imposed, is obvious.
She chose to put on a cheap fake, the day when all eyes were on her, for heaven’s sake.
Given that they’ve taken it on themselves to take up the moral high ground on people’s ‘needs’, we’re owed an answer.
The superfluous in life can take on very serious connotations, especially when added value is at stake.
I do not wish to sound too harsh, but since the Muscats have taken it on themselves to take up the moral high ground, we are owed an answer whether this is a case of an infringement of the D&G design, and therefore whether it amounts to counterfeiting products made in the EU.
I am sure the dress did not come with the D&G hologram, but I hope it did not have the D&G label hidden somewhere.
What I do not understand is why didn’t the wife of the Prime Minister buy the original product directly from D&G?
And since the fashion expert on tonight’s PBS news praised Mrs. Prime Minister’s sense of fashion, why are we stuck with a Fall 2012 item, and not with the Spring 2013 collection? We are in April 2013, for heaven’s sake.
Must conserve their pennies, ciccio. Never know when the gravy train will run out of gravy.
Could be grave consequences ahead
In Fall 2012 Mrs Muscat was already sure of a Labour victory, and in no time she went in search of a dress for the occasion.
U ejja mhux xorta? Tinqafel naha u tinqafel ohra, l-aqwa li tinqafel.
And have you considered that D&G may have customised the dress for her? They WERE in Italy recently.
But seriously now: maybe the police should raid her wardrobe. They may find more counterfeit stuff than they would have found at the Valletta market 20 years ago.
I think had D&G customised the dress for her they would have managed to get the buttons right.
Mrs Muscat’s collar looks like a pair of doilies bought from a Marsalokk market stall and dyed black with Dylon.
She couldn’t count the buttons either.
Intellectual property in any form or shape is a “dawa” in Malta.
“Daghwa” or better still “Dagħwa”.
Joseph will change the constitution .
The more they force it, the more ridiculous they look.
When you force it, you get hemorrhoids. Don’t forget, they’re ‘all in’.
Dolce Banana. Mhux xorta.
The 1st Dolce Banana Republic
Is that the reason why the Muscats were in Milan?
Michelle Muscat spent five years waiting for Saturday’s occasion and had plenty of time to plan her outfit. And she made a mess of it.
We’ve got used to the PL turning everything upside down haven’t we?
U mhux xorta. The devil is in the detail – Tinqafel naha u tinqafel ohra. Ajma xi ksuhat.
Isn’t this typical Labour. Many remember Sant’s “t’bazwar ‘l hawn kemm t’bazwar ‘l hemm”
On a more serious note, unauthorised use (copying) of someone’s IP (intellectual property) can be classed as IP crime and may lead to prosecution.
Wilful trade mark infringement generally relates to counterfeiting whilst a breach of copyright can be piracy.
Examples of counterfeiting could include, fake clothing, footwear and handbags.
http://www.ipo.gov.uk/ipenforce/ipenforce-crime.htm
Tbazwar.
U iva mhux xorta
She realised that the buttons are wrong but said what tne ‘hack’ – wara kollox, l-irgiel mhux taghna lkoll?
And fashion stylist Marisa Grima praised Michelle’s dress fashion sense to high heaven. She didn’t notice that her jacket buttons were wrong way round.
[Daphne – She didn’t praise her, no. She gave her full marks for trying, which is different. She also said that she likes the fact she tries. Incidentally, so do I. What I can’t bear is that her clothes are always so bad, and while we can wear bad clothes to run around all day, it’s something else when you’re under the glare of the cameras all the time.]
Anzi ma fetliliex tilbes xi ‘Maryjanes’ fuq xi par ‘pop socks’ kuljum il-laham. Thank God for small mercies.
This is surely her own attempt at dressmaking.
Any dressmaker and seamstress would know that all women’s garments, including shirts, trousers and even jeans, open right hand side as worn. Men’s garments open left hand side as worn.
Only a do-it-yourselfer would get it so wrong.
Does my bum look big in this?
Does my ego look bigger than my bum?
I bet that horror or horrors Carina was involved in her outfit.
[Daphne – I don’t think Carina would have got the buttons wrong, though.]
Cheap and badly made fakes right down to their clothes.
L-ilbies ma jaghmlux nies. So true.