Topshop pulls $700 Against Me! jacket after Laura Jane Grace calls them on it
Bad news about that $700 studded leather jacket that you recently picked up at Topshop. You know, the one emblazoned with anarchistic slogans like “Still hating” and “Rules breed rebels,” not to mention the logos of the bands Against Me! and The Vandals? Unfortunately, that purchase might not be quite as cool and edgy as you originally assumed. As it turns out, at least one of those two bands isn’t psyched to have been included on your two-thirds-of-a-grand fashion statement.
When Laura Jane Grace—frontwoman for the Florida-born punk band Against Me!—discovered her brand was being used by the U.K.-based fashion chain without her permission, she made her very understandable annoyance apparent on Twitter, as Stereogum reports.