Via Short Form Blog:
Since its founding in 1989, DKNY has been inspired by and incorporated authentic New York into its imagery. For our Spring 2013 store window visuals we decided to celebrate the city that is in our name by showcasing “Only in NYC” images. We have immense respect for Brandon Stanton aka Humans of New York and approached him to work with us on this visual program. He declined to participate in the project.
For the Spring 2013 windows program, we licensed and paid for photos from established photography service providers. However, it appears that inadvertently the store in Bangkok used an internal mock up containing some of Mr. Stanton’s images that was intended to merely show the direction of the spring visual program. We apologize for this error and are working to ensure that only the approved artwork is used.
DKNY has always supported the arts and we deeply regret this mistake. Accordingly, we are making a charitable donation of $25,000 to the YMCA in Bedford-Stuyvesant Brooklyn in Mr. Stanton’s name.
As Mark Coatney notes, it’s as though the internet’s power to be offended and to call people out for their offenses has suddenly had some sort of effect and is resulting in some honest apologies.
The guy who designs Lebron’s shoes either does or does not rejoice in Derrick Rose’s season-ending injury, linked in some way (apparently) to Rose’s choice of Adidas as his shoe supplier. It sort of depends which tweet you’re looking at.
First, directly following Rose’s injury Saturday: “You got one guy only getting stronger, and one guy breaking down before our very eyes. You chose poorly Pooh… #shouldasignedwithNIKE #GWS”
Next, as hordes of angry fans rebuffed him: “Y‘all take sh#t too serious! Never want to see anyone get hurt- I hope DRose comes back stronger than ever, he’s too good…”
Then, Saturday night: “Just to set the record straight- if you ain’t with me you against me, and if that’s the case I don’t give a F about you!”
The next morning, having apparently changed his mind and tweaked the meaning of ‘tongue in cheek’ to suit him: “Wow! Twitterverse I do apologize. It was really just tongue n cheek! Never meant any harm or disrespect!”
ESPN’s article has the full series and the response from Nike itself.
