Could this be a case of playground bullying or reverse domain hi-jacking? Just be careful where you shop for your Choos. At this point, we don’t even understand or even understand what Jimmy Choo is afraid of.

The shoe company Jimmy Choo is threatening to sue kookychoo.com, a New Zealand website because its names are too similar. Kookychoo, Jimmy Choo - yeah, for those who buy Jimmy Choo shoes, we can see how they would absolutely make that mistake.

Get this, the website does not even sell shoes. It sells beanbags and organic gifts!!!!!

The British company has told the Auckland gift-seller website, Kookychoo.com, it must give up its name by Tuesday because the names are too similar.

Kookychoo owner and mother-of-seven Looie James told reporters she was preparing to accede to the company’s demands because she could not afford the $NZ50,000 ($42,000) legal fees.

In the latest letter, Jimmy Choo’s counsel, asks Kookychoo to “agree that you will never use the Kookychoo trademark or any other trademark that is similar to Jimmy Choo or Choo in relation to any goods or services that are identical or similar to the goods covered by our client’s registered trademarks”. (Sunday Morning Herald)

Website at December 24th, 2008

DID OPRAH GOOF AGAIN?:

 Oprah, your human side is showing and we like it. Did Oprah endorse another faker? The New Republic has just posted an investigation into Rosenblat’s upcoming biography, Angel at the Fence: The True Story of a Love That Survived, in which the retired TV repairman claims he was kept alive during his stay in the Buchenwald concentration camp by a girl who slipped him food through the fence, and whom he subsequently married years later after meeting her on a blind date (”The single greatest love story, in 22 years of doing this show, we’ve ever told on the air,” says Oprah, who’s had him on her show twice). As it turns out, though, it’s possible that none of this even happened. (NYMag)

The greatest Love Story ever sold (The New Republic)

TRACEY ROSS & DONNA KARAN “URBAN ZEN” FALL VICTIM TO ECONOMY:

 Tracey Ross, the pioneering boutique owner who has been a fixture in L.A for almost two decades, plans to close her namesake shop on New Year’s Eve because of the recession.

Ross opened her store on now-trendy Robertson Boulevard in 1990 before moving to Sunset Plaza in 1996, where the iconic boutique has drawn a dedicated following of celebrities. (WWD)

 Donna Karans store, Urban Zen will also be closing and moving out of 614 N. Robertson Boulevard in LA on January 9th, 2009.

The store was intially to be a permanent retail store and the description since shifted to that of a temporary pop-up store.

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