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Post by katy on Aug 10, 2016 11:51:15 GMT
The only thing ever remotely nice from AD was that plain black dress with the sheer bit at the top she wore to something once. Other than that the whole things horrific, it all just looks like crappy tour merch for kids.
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Post by StrongSweet on Aug 10, 2016 12:03:00 GMT
TBH this is only what I have
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Post by fcpunk on Aug 10, 2016 13:43:09 GMT
I liked the iconic what the hell and smile t-shirts. Other than that is meeh. The best one from this collection is definitely the skull.
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Post by BogoGog24 on Aug 10, 2016 13:44:22 GMT
Well, they could at least make sure the products isn't crumpled, but ironed and nicely placed. This new shirt looks like it's from a second-hand-shop. Who would pay $ 25 (+ shipping) for that? I mean, I couldn't care less about Abbey Dawn, cause I would never buy that stuff (overpriced, not my style, low-quality), BUT it just drives me crazy that so many things Avril does are so half-heartedly done. She gives her name and her brand to this clothing line but to me this seems more like damage than benefit. AD isn't my thing either, but yes the presentation is very poor. It almost looks like some cheap knockoff site. No photoshoots, crappy photos, and they can't even be bothered to iron those shirts. Seriously... WTF is this?
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Post by sliperslip on Aug 10, 2016 13:51:57 GMT
i'm starting to believe that pictures are made like this on purpose ...if 5 ppl from this forum will start work for her, everything with her career would go so much better
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Post by Jack on Aug 10, 2016 13:57:38 GMT
I don't have anything against Avril putting on sale new AD clothes, but these new ones don't look too exciting, to be honest. And the ribs-and-sternum hoodie reminds me of this album cover: I like the rustic skull tee and ringer tank, but they look a bit pricey...
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Post by Amanda on Aug 10, 2016 14:23:31 GMT
I think you guys miss that this site is not even a real clothing site, like her old collections were highly more proffesional and were on a real website. right now her collections are at a livenation site, which basically is a site artists use for >merch<. so no high pro clothingline but normal merch. So basically, we cant expect the items to look super cool, look at it as merch. like the tees who are super expansive you buy after concerts, with just a tag on them. I guess shes putting out items now so shes not bored and to keep us excited, which is fun, but i miss the old abbey dawn which were more proffessional. I never really fitted in the style of AD but at least in the back it looked more highend
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Post by StrongSweet on Aug 10, 2016 14:25:08 GMT
I don't have anything against Avril putting on sale new AD clothes, but these new ones don't look too exciting, to be honest. And the ribs-and-sternum hoodie reminds me of this album cover: I like the rustic skull tee and ringer tank, but they look a bit pricey... Does she hint about her next album with this? Who knows
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Post by aren on Aug 10, 2016 14:31:13 GMT
Omg these look awful... The impression that I get sometimes is that Avril doesn't put passion and effort into anything she does anymore. Disappointing Btw, what about the fragrances? Isn't she selling those anymore?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2016 14:41:34 GMT
I doubt that it has anything to do with passion, because she could have easily given up on Abbey Dawn and not make them ever again. What it DOES have to do with is money. Because she/her team knows that they're not going to sell as much as they used to. Especially with this time away from the spotlight, and the 2 years away from abbey dawn itself. They're playin it smart by scaling back. There's nothing wrong with that. However the quality DOES suffer.
There's a few things I like though like the pastel tank top and shirts. They're cute!
But it's rediculous to expect what she has before. Maybe one day she'll be able to do that, but for now it's okay that it's more of a merch site. We have to be a little understanding. Though the presentation of the items is silly and could have had more effort put behind them.
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Post by BogoGog24 on Aug 10, 2016 14:54:27 GMT
Omg these look awful... The impression that I get sometimes is that Avril doesn't put passion and effort into anything she does anymore. Disappointing Btw, what about the fragrances? Isn't she selling those anymore? No she hasn't released a fragrance since 2011. I personally love all of them and wish she would release more, but it doesn't seem like she's interested in doing any more for now. I doubt that it has anything to do with passion, because she could have easily given up on Abbey Dawn and not make them ever again. What it DOES have to do with is money. Because she/her team knows that they're not going to sell as much as they used to. Especially with this time away from the spotlight, and the 2 years away from abbey dawn itself. They're playin it smart by scaling back. There's nothing wrong with that. However the quality DOES suffer. There's a few things I like though like the pastel tank top and shirts. They're cute! But it's rediculous to expect what she has before. Maybe one day she'll be able to do that, but for now it's okay that it's more of a merch site. We have to be a little understanding. I agree. I think Avril is passionate about the new designs (she seemed really excited on Snapchat/Instagram about the new stuff), it's just that, like you said, it seems they are working within a budget and making cheap stuff on purpose and then selling it for way more than it's actually worth. She probably used to have a whole team of designers working with her and distributors that really made sure the clothes were good quality (though I have to say even in its hey day AD was never high quality stuff and was always overpriced). Now the team she's working with might be much smaller than what it was and they can only do so much. I only kind of like the skull shirt and the psychedelic cupcake shirt (but ironically without the cupcake ). But I don't like them enough to pay $25 plus shipping. And even aside from the designs, whether you love 'em or hate them, I think we can all agree these photos look terrible and sloppy. Seriously, at least like iron the shirts or something? I was wondering if maybe they did that on purpose to make it look "edgy" but... seriously.
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Post by StrongSweet on Aug 10, 2016 15:37:36 GMT
Those rainbow color so LGBT , dunno if she was intended that
She certainly doesn't want to give up because she brings back Abbey Dawn and didn't announce official closed. But it seems that she doesn't have much passion as she used to be to pull up more complete design as they are even simpler than the old ones. Even though money is limited, it doesn't mean the creativity is limited.
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Post by dhoug on Aug 10, 2016 16:01:51 GMT
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Post by aren on Aug 10, 2016 16:24:33 GMT
^ I don't know what's worse... these tshirts designs or to see Av (an almost 32 yr old woman) posing and wearing these tshirts...
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Post by Limbo Messiah on Aug 10, 2016 16:25:12 GMT
I only have this in mind when seeing that shirt
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