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Corporate Whore / Sell Out / Shilling For...; - streaming service TIDAL, H&M, GAP, Louis Vuitton, etc.
Topic Started: May 31 2006, 05:46 PM (8,569 Views)
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I'll merge this thread later with the "Corporate Whore" thread.
This appeared on Drowned Madonna
  • Our correspondent LoveTechnician from Hong Kong informs us that yesterday there was a report in an Hong Kong newspaper, Apple Daily, whose journalist recently flew to Sweden and had an exclusive interview with H&M’s head of design Margareta van den Bosch.

    ... When asked about how limited the 'M by Madonna' line is (in terms of quantity), Van den Bosch refused to give the actual number but just said that they will sell everything out without a piece left.
Heh heh heh. They're afraid to release numbers because they know it might flop, just like last time.

(Some guy even posted a photo of the H+M track suits on store racks - they were still on the racks because they didn't sell - remember?) :laugh:
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Funny. yes they might sell it all...to the STORES ordering it. That doesn't mean it will sell to actual people. It will wind up in the sale/discount rack where I saw those tracksuits at H&M for 19.99 (10 pounds for you in Britain). And this was in D.C., a rather big city to flop in. The Georgetown area no less, where all the college twits with too much cash shop. $19.99!!!! Hear that fans? I saw both black ones and white ones for less than 20 bucks, in many sizes, hanging there bored and unloved.
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With no due respect, mandona is associated with idiotic s&m, hooker, and circus getups. She'll never shed it, no matter how much money she shells out to PR.
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What's to direct? "Look down...look down... ok slowly look up when the camera has zoomed in and act like you're doing the spoken interlude from yet another music video." Boggles the mind, doesn't it?
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With no due respect, mandona is associated with idiotic s&m, hooker, and circus getups. She'll never shed it, no matter how much money she shells out to PR.

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Funny, but true!
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Madonna just attended an H&M launch party. Here's one photo from the event:

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More photos from this event:

here, here, here ("wire image")

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Why is her face getting longer and longer? Her skull is morphing!
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She looks like she's had something done...no more wrinkles, and her skin looks really, really stretched and thin.

At least she doesn't have that flippy Farrah do.
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It's called Nip and Tuck. :laugh:

They should have saved some of the cut- off parts to graft onto her hands- or feet-
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What happened to her "beauty mark"? I thought it was real! Liar! Nothing about this withering hag is true and you can't believe one word she says. latest has it that she is going into a clothes line with S J Parker. What will they call it,
2 Horsefaces Ltd?
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Mar 16 2007, 01:01 PM
What happened to her "beauty mark"? I thought it was real! Liar! Nothing about this withering hag is true and you can't believe one word she says. latest has it that she is going into a clothes line with S J Parker. What will they call it,
2 Horsefaces Ltd?

Madonna and SJP launch fashion lines
  • The mum-of-three [Madonna] arrived for the "My by Madonna" line launch party at London's Langham hotel modelling one of her own designs from the range - a stunning low-cut white jersey dress.
Did anyone but me notice that the white dress Manny wore to that party was a knock off of the white halter dress that Marilyn Monroe wore in the movie The Seven Year Itch, only Madonna's version had sleeves?

The person who wrote this next piece says that he's a fan, but it contains some insulting remarks about the clothing that "Madonna" designed.

That's another thing - all these references to the H&M "M" line all state that Madonna designed them, when we have information to the contrary (that someone else designed them and Madonna also had the real designer look at some of her favorite outfits).

Wearing the Corset To Work
  • By ERIC WILSON
    Published: March 15, 2007

    THE Madonna zip-front tracksuits sold at H&M last year may have disappointed some fans, for in all their polyester shininess, they didn’t look like something She would wear. A cheerleading squad at a Florida retirement home, maybe, but not Her.

    “I didn’t read the reviews,” Madonna said on the phone the other day. “I don’t care what people say. I like them.”

    Next week Madonna gets a do-over as a celebrity designer.

    Blouses, wrap dresses, printed halter tops, corset belts and a turban — all designed by Madonna! — go on sale in H&M’s 1,300 stores on March 22. And, She wants you to know, real effort went into these clothes, like maybe She does care, just a little, about what people say.

    “Did they come and see my show?” She asked, still on the subject of the mixed reviews. “If they’d seen my show, they would cut me some slack about how simple my tracksuit was. I like the simplicity of it and live in my tracksuits.”

    But one cannot live in tracksuits alone. The new collection, called M by Madonna, has an unexpected vibe that could be described as landed-gentry Madonna goes office-casual Madonna.

    The degree of workplace appropriateness depends on whether one chooses to accessorize with pearls or a riding crop.

    Madonna, who chooses both, was inspired by the dynamic young women who work with Her, a group She calls the Semtex Girls, because, you know, they are like the explosive. Naughty!

    “They are the kind of clothes that mean business and fun all at the same time,” Madonna said. “I thought about what I like to wear every day.”

    Still, there will be Madonna fans (um, me) looking for something more emblematic of the many, many Hers. Like that bodysuit ($19.90) that speaks of “Confessions on a Dance Floor”; or the double-breasted pantsuit (jacket, $99.90; pants, $59.90), circa “Express Yourself”; or a long white dress ($69.90) that could have been a castoff from “Vogue” days. But no.

    “I didn’t really think about anything in connection to the stages of my career or the evolution of my persona,” She said.

    Not even the $34.90 corset belts?

    “Well, what part of my career didn’t I have a corset in?”
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Why do they capitalize She and Her? I guess these idiot kids think she's some god or something. Their parents must be proud of the morons they've raised...
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From :drown: :granny: Drowned Granny:
Ariake Ad!

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You can literally see the vertical airbrush marks down her neck to fix it!
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Mar 18 2007, 10:37 PM
You can literally see the vertical airbrush marks down her neck to fix it!

It's easier to see in the following scan at Madonna Tribe:

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This says negative stuff about the current "M" collection and mentions how the last one did not do well:

Madonna Goes Chic-n-Cheap
  • Some pieces are not for everyone. A patent leather corset belt would seem hard to wear by those not rail thin. And Madonna's leather trench coat is worth a look, but for just under $300, it is not the bargain H&M is known for.

    She may be a style icon, but some remain wary of how much merchandise will actually be sold.

    "The price points on the clothes are a little high for H&M, who is usually known for bargain prices," says James Hurley, a retail analyst at the Telsey Advisory Group, a research firm. "The real test will be the customer's receptivity to price point and the amount of inventory H&M has. They don't want to be in a situation where they are putting everything on sale."

    Last summer, the singer/actress, in collaboration with H&M, debuted a collection of track suits, an initial stab at the "M" line, that failed to register with consumers.
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Regarding the Ariake picture, it could hardly be more obvious how bizarre-looking she's become. This is probably the 1,991st time I've said this, but she's all face and no head... E.T. had that problem, too, but on his planet that was most likely a normal look. :alien:
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I've put together some of the negative remarks about the Madonna Hennes & Mauritz clothing line from various news sources and put them in this post.

This first article I've pasted in - notice they say
  • 1) there aren't many shoppers there, yet the few that are there bought lots of dresses; and

    2) one guy said the only reason he's buying an "M" dress is to sell it later on e-bay. :laugh:
As for point #1 above, this means you have about 50 people each buying 100,000,000 of the same dress or whatever.

It's the same thing with Man-donna's kiddie books: kids don't really want the books; it's the adults who buy multiple copies of each one that drive up the sales figures.

There's one Australian news article claiming that Man-donna's "M" clothing line is doing well in Stockholm("Madonna's H&M collection proves popular").

That article does say, though,
  • "However, the [Madonna] launch did not spark the stampede scenes seen in recent years when designers such as Karl Lagerfeld, Stella McCartney and Viktor&Rolf launched lines bearing their names for H&M."
And...
  • In London, about 50 shoppers poured into the chain's Oxford Street store when it opened to the sound of La Isla Bonita, one of Madonna's hits from the late 1980s.
:ask: QUESTION:

If only 50 shoppers showed up to the London store, why are some headlines and articles using words such as "crowd", "madness," or "popular" to describe how many folks showed up, or how the "M" line is doing?

Slow Start To Launch Of New Madonna Range
  • 22nd March 2007

    She has been the driving force of pop for decades, but Madonna's latest foray into the fashion world was nearly a washout this morning.

    By the time the doors to Oxford Street's H&M's flagship store opened at 9am this morning, just 25 fans were waiting to enter the singer's material world.

    But once the launch got underway, a scrum of shoppers flooded in to snap up clothing from the singer's range.

    Shoppers gave the collection a mixed reception and while there was strong demand for the "well made" sunglasses and printed dresses, most of the very high-heeled shoes appeared to be left on the shelf.

    First in the queue was Lofty, 38, a self-employed video editor from south London. He said: "I've been here since 6.20am and I thought I was at the wrong place. There was no one around. I've been drinking a lot of coffee and smoking a lot of cigarettes to keep myself warm.

    "I didn't necessarily want to be the first person through the doors and I'm really embarrassed because the person behind me only turned up at 8am.


    "I saw the collection on TV and then looked on the internet to see what I wanted to get. I'm going to buy a necker scarf and a pair of sunglasses. They both have M on very prominently. I also want to buy a dress to flog on eBay.

    "Although there aren't many people in the queue I think her range will be popular. People will buy it for the Madonna name rather than fashion.

    "I've got £80 in cash out to spend rather than taking my credit card so I don't get too carried away, although I think the prices are very reasonable. The sunglasses cost £19.99 and the dress is £34.99."

    At 8.30am, just four people were in line, but as 9am approached, excitement grew with the appearance of models showing off some of the predominantly white, beige and black range. But TV cameras, photographers and journalists threatened to outnumber the two dozen shoppers.

    As the clock struck 9am the waiting shoppers swarmed in with steely gazes and headed down to the basement to the sound of La Isla Bonita, blaring throughout the store.

    As staff in "M by Madonna" t-shirts watched by the sidelines, shoppers snatched dresses from their pegs and grasped for handbags, coats and sunglasses emblazoned with large M symbols.

    Within a minute several were laden with armfuls of clothes and the first customer was already at the til.

    The man, who did not want to be named, said: "I bought a pair of sunglasses, a leotard for my friend and a scarf. I've got quite a bit of the range because I am a big Madonna fan. I thought she might turn up, but unfortunately it doesn't look like she will."

    His friend, Gavin Eyers, 27, a student from Greenwich, south east London, added: "I think people will want to wear the clothes because they will want to show off the fact that they've got something from the Madonna range.

    "I'm looking for anything I can get away with wearing."

    A steady stream of eager fans continued to flood in after the doors were open and within five minutes frantic staff were dashing between the Madonna section and storeroom with armfuls of clothes to fill up the diminishing stock.

    Lauren Kamasz, 26, a HR manager, said she should be at work in east London, but had come in to see the clothes.

    Holding a handful of clothes at the til, she said: "I should be at work in Canary Wharf at the moment, I'm trying to work out what I'm going to do with the bags when I get to work.

    "I've bought two pairs of sunglasses, two scarves, a leather bag and four dresses, but I wasn't really planning to buy anything. They all looked really good quality, I tried them on and they fitted really well. But i did have to say no to a few things.

    "I really like Madonna and the style seems to fit with her own sense of fashion and there also seems to be a Versace and Gucci influence."

    Computing student Kinue Niizu, 33, from central London, said he was buying for friends back in Japan.

    She said: "My friends are big fans of Madonna and they've told me to spend £1,000 on the clothes. Although I'm not buying anything for myself because I'm not impressed by much. It's not my style.

    "My friends only want it because it's designed by Madonna and they don't have H&M in Japan. I bought my husband along so he can carry the clothes while I carry on shopping."

    By 9.30am the crowds were beginning to die down, but H&M claimed the launch had been successful despite the fact that Stella McCartney's collection sold out within 20 minutes in November 2005.

    Spokeswoman Chloe Bowers said: "It's great. It's going really well and the demand is what we expected. The Stella McCartney collection was only in selected stores and was much more limited. This collection is much bigger than previous collections. It's gone to 114 stores nationwide and is being sold in 28 countries.

    "We've got more stock coming in through the day. It's still very early, but the sunglasses and all the printed dresses seem to be very popular."

    Margareta van den Bosch, H&M's head of design, added: "M by Madonna is all about fashion that people can really love and wear season after season.
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  • Margareta van den Bosch, H&M's head of design, added: "M by Madonna is all about fashion that people can really love and wear season after season.
No it's not.

Notice how many of the people quoted in the article said the only reason they're buying this "M" stuff is that they're Madonna fans - they're not buying because they like the fashions in and of themselves.

This article mentions that one person in line to pick up some Manny stuff admits to being a fan:
Madonna's Ready to Dress You Up

Rewind: M by Madonna Comes to DC
  • By Catherine Andrews

    I arrived at the H&M on 10th and F Streets NW, 45 minute’s before the store’s opening expecting a line at least half-way around the block. But the reality was that I was literally the second person there.

    As time went on, a few more people lined up and chatted with me, but by the time the store’s doors opened a bit before 10, there were still only six or seven people waiting to enter.

    That number may not bode well for the sales of the M by Madonna line in DC, considering that other designers like Stella McCartney and Victor & Rolf, who have also done H&M lines, caused total chaos and bedlam when they debuted.

    A woman who joined me in line recalled the opening of the Viktor & Rolf line last fall, saying that there were huge crowds, plenty of elbows being thrown, and clothes flying off the shelves before she could get her hands on any.

    In comparison, the Madonna experience at H&M was completely tame.
M for Madonna madness
  • By Becky Davies

    The M for Madonna collection follows similar collaborations by the store with Viktor&Rolf and Stella McCartney, both of which sold out within hours. Many pieces then appeared on eBay for more than their original price.

    It looks as if this collection is going to be no different. Georgina Bryan and Alex Edmonds, 18-year-old students from Chislehurst, were stockpiling items in a corner. Georgina said:
    "We've bought everything in our own sizes and a couple in size 12s as well which hopefully we can sell on eBay."

This same article goes on to say:
  • The dresses are less successful. All seem to be cut in an unflattering empireline shape.

    The problem is not so much Madonna's designs but the fabric quality.

    The viscose jersey used for many garments tags the skin and threatens electric shocks, and the leather goods are plasticlooking - which is disappointing as the collection is priced about 25 per cent above the retailer's regular collection.

    Nonetheless H&M is banking on the hope that fans will overlook quality for the chance to buy a Madonna original.

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The last part sounded like Skank herself.
Leathery but plastic looking.
Unflattering.
Cheap but overpriced.

That Washington DC H&M is probably the same one I went to last year while wandering Georgetown. This is a seriously funky wannabe college area. Her tracksuits were still hanging there marked down and on sale.
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:laugh: This is funny-

Arrogant bi tch had them put up a velvet rope a block long and there's only three people in line- and they're probably her employees. :laugh: :roll:

MANDONA'S MATERIAL DISASTER

The main comment seems to be that the clothes are dorky and people don't like the material used.

THIS MATERIAL,GIRL,IS REALLY RATHER BORING

The only place where people were reported to have any interest in the stuff was in Stockholm, but something tells me not to take too much "stock" in that. :laugh:


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Iron, those are excellent finds!

Even the photo with the caption atop the Sun page you linked to is great - it shows a grand total of about 5 people in line, showing that long rope, and the caption says
  • Absent crowd ... H&M queue for Madge's clothes
From that article:
  • By ANTONELLA LAZZERI
    March 23, 2007

    MATERIAL girl Madonna suffered a rare flop yesterday — when her fashion range went on sale in London and hardly anyone turned up to buy it.

    Only 20 people were queuing at the Oxford Circus branch of H&M when the store opened at 9am.

    .... But shopper Vera Kontou, 37, a beauty therapist from Waterloo, London, said: “I was expecting hundreds of people and impossible crowds but hardly anyone is here.”

    Luckily the millionaire singer, 48, was not there either — as H&M played Kylie Minogue hits in the store instead of hers.
That last line about them playing Kylie songs - :roll:

From the "Material is boring girl" article:
  • The dresses, however, are simply cheap and boring. Some feature nondescript bank teller-prints, limp sleeves, unflattering mixes of black and cream. One, in shiny, white, polyester jersey, looks like the kind of thing you would not wear even if paid to.
More:

Is Madonna A Fashion Flop?
  • Friday 23 March 2007
    There's no frenzy to buy her H&M range

    She may be the Queen of Pop but when Madonna's fashion range went on sale yesterday in London, there weren't catfights amongst fashionistas trying to buy it.

    Only 20 people were queuing at the Oxford Circus branch of H&M when the store opened at 9am.
Madonna Fashion Fails
  • .... But many shoppers were not as enthusiastic about the range of styles, expecting a clothing line designed by the singer, actress and author to be more adventurous.

    .... "I was expecting the clothes to be a little more fashion-forward I have to say, because she is such an icon and I heard it was based on her own closet," said Daniela Maron, a fashion publicist combing the Fifth Ave. store's racks for a cream-colored sequined mini dress donned by a mannequin.

    .... "A lot of people came in, but as for buying, it's been half-and-half," said Juan Tinch, an H&M sales associate. "There have been a lot of purchases but also a lot of returns."

    .... But for Sara Axelsson, a New York-based lawyer who went to see Madonna's line, the collection was not unique enough to justify a purchase.

    "The Stella McCartney line was much more different than the usual H&M stuff," Axelsson said.

    "Obviously (celebrities) help enormously, whether it be if they're fronting a product or have worn it, but of course it takes away from the cachet level," said Maron, the publicist, about the trend of low-priced retailers selling collections designed by icons.

    [Said Maron, the publicist] "But I'm definitely buying something, even if I never wear it," Maron said. "Just to have it. Anything for Madonna."
Madonna's H&M apparel line gets mild welcome in NYC

Shoppers who feel they've seen it all skirt around Madonna's fashion line
  • March 23, 2007
    Cathryn Scott, Western Mail

    It was supposed to be a shopping stampede that would see fashion fans queuing from dawn and fighting in the aisles.

    But the launch of queen of pop Madonna's new clothing range for H&M was more a blink-and-you'll-miss-it affair.

    Despite a high-profile television and newspaper advertising campaign featuring the singer modelling items from her M by Madonna range, and celebrity admirers such as Jean Paul Gaultier saying they were keen to get hold of her designs, just 50 or so fans were waiting outside H&M's flagship store on London's Oxford Street as it opened yesterday morning for the official launch of the collection.

    Most of those in the queue were Madonna fans keen to snap up any merchandise associated with the star, rather than fashionistas wanting to emulate her style.

    In Wales, the launch caused even less of a sensation, with just eight or nine customers waiting outside the Cardiff branch of H&M when it opened at 9am.

    Although the flow of shoppers increased about lunch time, the store was no busier than usual.

    According to Vicki Stollery, womenswear floor manager at the store, there had been some interest from shoppers, but the rush was nothing like that when Stella McCartney unveiled her collection for H&M.

    'We had about seven or eight phone calls this morning from people wanting to put stuff on hold because they're at work and panicking because they can't get to the store until later on.

    'But it was busier for Stella. We had queues at the tills and more people waiting to come in when we opened up.'

    She added that one or two customers had spent more than £100 on items from the collection, but although a number of shoppers had been trying on clothes, a lot of it was being returned to the shop floor rather than being purchased at the tills.

    At the London store, Denise Cutts, a 25-year-old student, said she had bought pretty much the whole range, which varies in price from £7.99 to £149.99 and includes trench coats, kimono style dresses, and even a diamante-adorned black jump suit, as well as sunglasses and neck scarves.

    'We have been everywhere for her and I have been a fan for years. I am going to wear it all. I like the bags, the sequined dress, the trench coat and the kimono dresses that she models. I have spent over £1,000.'

    Lauretta Roberts, editor of fashion industry magazine Drapers, said the reason Madonna's range had not caused as much of a stir as other celebrity collections was down to the fact that she was the wrong icon for H&M.

    'Madonna is still an icon to many people, but her fan base would be largely made up of people in their 30s and above
    , which is not really a core H&M customer in the UK. And the styling of this collection, with its pencil skirts and cinched-in waists, is pretty grown-up too.


    'I would be interested to see how this collection fares in Europe where H&M is shopped in by an older customer, as well as those in their teens and 20s.'

    However, Tracey Pritchard, senior fashion lecturer at the University of Wales, Newport, said the reason the range had not had much of an impact was because having celebrities and even high-profile fashion designers creating high street ranges is no longer novel.

    'We are so used to it in the stores,' she said. 'Debenhams has everybody designing for them, H&M have had Stella McCartney and Viktor & Rolf. It's very overdone.

    'When H&M started it with Stella it was because they target a very young age group, of between 16 and 26, and it was a way of them getting designer clothes. When it launched it was massive and people were queuing up and buying things to sell on eBay to make a profit.

    'But it's getting old hat now.'

    Welsh fashion designer Jane Davies agreed. She said, 'Everywhere you go some celebrity has designed this or that and at the end of the day they don't design it themselves they are just the name on it.'

    She added that Madonna is not considered as much of a style icon as someone like Kate Moss - who unveils her much-hyped debut range for Topshop in May.
Madonna's H&M Collection: Yawn
  • March 23, 2007 by Jessie Pascoe

    Curious about Madonna's new H&M collection, we hiked over to their Soho store. There a neutral palette of '40s tops and skirts, bodysuits (?!?), kimono-inspired dresses, and modish pants and trench coats, greeted us, then made us yawn.

    After viewing the collection's commercial, we thought the threads would be thrilling and different. The campaign suggests that a person's look will be transformed into a vision even Madge approves of. Yet, the dull clothes were more Banana Republic than designs created by the envelope-pushing Queen of Pop.

    We tried on a few selectons.

    However, the black skinny pants produced the same look of horror all drainpipes do for us. And the mulberry silk kimono-style dress proved too unstructured; our winter shape demands tougher tailoring.

    On our way out, we asked a salesperson how 'M' sold on its first day. She said more people tried on than purchased, but added that the black jumper ($39.99) and khaki rayon dress ($59.99) did well. We can't imagine why the matte ivory polyster/rayon bodysuit wasn't a bestseller.
Madonna's debut as material girl finds few in the market for trenchcoats and turbans
  • .... HER concerts are renowned for selling out in minutes, but Madonna's foray into fashion proved less of a draw yesterday as the launch of her H&M range failed to attract expected queues.

    .... The H&M store on Aberdeen's Union Street did not see any upsurge in business thanks to Madonna, despite having a window display showing off the new line. Store manager Nicola Flesh said: "It's not been busy at all. The display does not seem to have made a difference. We didn't have people queuing up outside or anything like that."

    ... Staff at H&M in Glasgow's Buchanan Galleries, who had geared up for a stampede, saw only trickle of shoppers.

    Allyna Dickson, 25, raced to the store to make sure she could buy a bag and belt, but was amazed how quiet it was.

    ... Stockbroker Lynsey Mathieson, 25, of Armadale in West Lothian, was surprised she did not have to queue.

Despite the fact that Manny's H&M line is not doing well in most parts of the world, some news sources are headlining it as though it were a success - but these again are citing only a store in Stockholm:

Madonna Collection Flies From H&M Racks
  • A new clothing line by Madonna at the Swedish chic-on-the-cheap retailer H&M sold out within minutes of the Stockholm store's opening.
Madonna's H&M collection proves popular
  • 23rd March 2007, 4:57 WST

    A new clothing line designed by pop star Madonna for Swedish cheap-chic retailer H&M sold out in minutes after going on sale in Stockholm.

    The collection flew off the racks in a flash, after hundreds of shoppers lined up around the block to be among the first to add the M by Madonna collection to their wardrobes.
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Madonna's new H&M clothes a hit on eBay

So I went to e-bay's Clothing section (search phrase I used: madonna h and m)....

But I'm not seeing tons of offers on the Manny H&M clothing. Most have zero bids.

Of the ones that have offers, here are a few examples:
  • New
    M by Madonna and H&M Ivory Trenchcoat - US Size 8
    3 bids
    Price: $152.50

    New Madonna H& M Black and White Flower Scarf - Limited/ Get it while it lasts - this is HOT item
    1 bid
    Price: $55.00
Next search term: madonna h m

Most of the items have no bidders.

Out of the ones that do have bids, a few examples (most had only anywhere from 1 - 4 bidders) -
  • M by MADONNA H&M WHITE SUNGLASSES New with Tag
    11 bids
    Price: $47.00

    M by MADONNA H&M BLACK SUNGLASSES New with Tag
    20 bids
    Price: $71.00

    Elegant Mod H&M MADONNA Dress Black 8/38
    4 bids
    Price: #35.00

    H&M by MADONNA Black Bodysuit Size XS
    1 bid
    Price: $1.00

    M for Madonna logo scarf silk monogram black ivory H&M
    3 bids
    $17.19

    (As of right now) Nobody has bid on the $295 sequined dress. Hmm.
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