SHODDY LYNN’S (DOLLS KILL OWNER) POST ABOUT THE BLACK LIVES MATTER PROTESTS

The issue that I am going to discuss in this blog post is actually what caused me to get back on to this blog after years.

Earlier in the year as you know huge Black Lives Matter protests rolled out across the United States and the rest of the world after George Floyd was murdered by a police officer. George Floyd was suffocated to death by a police officer who kneeled on his neck for 8 minutes despite the man begging him to get off his neck and telling the police officer that He couldn’t breathe.

Most protesters were peaceful and just simply marched to have Their voices heard, however among the peaceful protesters there were a few who began to riot and loot shops, those rioting and looting were of course in the minority.

Shoddy Lynn the owner of Dolls Kill posted this picture to her Instagram during the time the protests were happening

These police officers had been using completely unnecessary violence on protesters such as shooting them with rubber bullets and using teargass.

When people saw this post it infuriated them that during a time where black people were fighting for Their lives that Shoddy Lynn’s only concern was her shop and that she was praising the police for using violence against the protesters most of whom were black or people of colour.

Shoddy Lynn began to block anyone who expressed anger over this post and eventually deleted the post altogether.

A few days later she did something which I have never seen her do, she got on camera and made an apology video. In the video she says that her post was misinterpreted, that she was not praising the police at all but trying to show support for the protests which I personally find a little hard to believe as the picture she posted does not show any protesters, only heavily armed police preparing to shoot protesters.

Many people have commented that she appeared to be reading off cue cards in the video as she continually looks to the side and pauses throughout the video. Many people also feel that she sounds extremely insincere in the video which I must say I agree with, to me she appears annoyed at having to be making the video at all.

Shoddy Lynn eventually deleted the apology video however I was able to find it in this video Shoddy Lynn deleting the video for me confirms my suspicions that her apology was not genuine because why would she delete it if it was?

This is not the first incident with racism that Dolls Kill have had, some other incidences include
– Selling a Native American headdress as a Halloween costume mode-led by a white non Native American girl and telling people “not to get their panties in a bunch” as it “isn’t that serious” when people attempted to explain how and why this was offensive.
– Reviews from former employees on Glasshouse claiming that they witnessed racism at Dolls Kill
– Selling a jumper with the slogan “Goth Is White” on it

DOLLS KILL KNOCKOFF A PAIR OF JEFFREY CAMPBELL SHOES

A few years ago, Dolls Kill stocked Jeffrey Campbell. Jeffrey Campbell stopped selling to them for reasons unknown and not long after he did Dolls Kill came out with a pair of platforms that looked extremely similar to a pair of platforms that Jeffrey Campbell had created in collaboration with Wildfox

CUSTOMER REPORTS RECEIVING AN ORDER FROM DOLLS KILL WITH A DIRTY PAD IN THE BOX

DISABLED INFLUENCER ACCUSES DOLLS KILL OF DISCRIMINATION

A model has recently come forward with a negative experience with Dolls Kill. This model is not the first model to report a bad experience with dolls kill. If you go through this blog you will see this story from a previous model who worked for Dolls Kill.

On Twitter, bionicbeaut a beautiful disabled influencer came forward and said that Dolls Kill had once reached out to her and offered her a partnership, only to take the partnership back when they discovered that she uses a wheelchair.

Someone who saw bionicbeaut’s Tweets decided to personally message Dolls Kill expressing their disappointment in Dolls Kill over Their treatment of bionicbeaut and Dolls Kill responded by saying that they had never communicated with or heard of bionicbeaut, essentially calling her a liar.

This is clearly a lie as there is bionicbeaut provided screenshots proving that they had indeed reached out to her to offer her a partnership so they do know who she is and have communicated with her.

Here are emails from Dolls Kill to bionicbeaut

bionicbeaut responded to the email with her size and told them that she is in a wheelchair and this was the response she got

It does seem weird to me that after she told them she uses a wheelchair they suddenly had already filled all of the positions for the campaign. If they were that full why did they reach out to her in the first place? This is where it gets interesting, bionicbeaut said in her Tweet after Dolls Kill told her that all positions for the campaign were filled a friend of hers came forward and told her that Dolls Kill had reached out to her to be in the campaign.

Soon after bionicbeaut came forward with her experience with Dolls Kill her Twitter account was suspended, it seems that Dolls Kill and Their supporters mass reported bionicbeaut’s Twitter in an attempt to silence her.

bionicbeaut had to make a new account on Twitter to explain what had happened. According to her the only way to access her Twitter account was to delete the Tweets she made about Dolls Kill.

“GOTH IS WHITE” JUMPER SOLD ON DOLLS KILL

For a short time, Dolls Kill were selling this jumper from the bran W.I.A. on Their website. They ended up taking it down as people immediately begun to point out the racist tone of the jumper and question Dolls Kill for allowing this to be sold on Their website.

Both the brand W.I.A. and Dolls Kill responded to the backlash by saying that the “Goth Is White” message was supposed to mean that Goth’s can wear any colour, not just black and still be goth.

I personally find this a little bit suspicious if that was really the case why of all things would they choose to put “Goth Is White”? and how did they not realise how that would come across? Why wouldn’t they put something like “Goth is every colour” why white? wouldn’t that be insinuating that the only other colour Goths can wear besides black is white? it seems to contradict Their “Goths can wear any colour statement” not to mention that there has been people over the years who have tried to claim that Goth is only for white people, surely both Dolls Kill and W.I.A. must have known how “Goth Is White” would look like they were saying that only white people can be Goth.

Whether or not they are telling the truth about what the jumper really meant I don’t know but I will say that I have a very hard time believing it myself.

CURRENT MOOD A BRAND STOCKED BY DOLLS KILL RIPS OFF IN THE MORGUE

This brand that Dolls Kill stocks Current Mood, has just recently ripped off a design from an independent shop called “In The Morgue”. Apparently this is not the first time this brand has ripped off an independent artist, they have been accused many times of doing this to many different artists over the years yet Dolls Kill continues to work with them.

DOLLS KILL STOLE DESIGNS FROM UZUMAKI CEPEDA

Dolls Kill shared this picture of Their LA storefront display on Their Instagram story. Soon after they posted this people began to point out that the table and lamp in the photo seemed to be extremely similar to a table and lamp created by Dominican textile artist Uzumaki Cepeda who has her own gallery in LA called “Uzumaki Gallery”

The Photo Posted By Dolls Kill

Art Installation In Uzumaki Gallery

Someone actually reached out to Dolls Kill via Instagram DM’s regarding this and Dolls Kill responded by denying that they had ever heard of Uzumaki or seen her work before.

Here is where it gets interesting. Uzumaki shared this screenshot on Twitter showing Dolls Kill reaching out to her saying that they love her work and asking her to collaborate with them so clearly they did know who Uzumaki was and they had seen her work before.

This is not the first time I have heard of Dolls Kill working with or offering to work with an independent artist only to turn around and sell a cheap knock off of the artists work instead, Marialia had a similar problem years ago, which I posted about.
https://problemswithdollskill.wordpress.com/2016/05/

MORE STOLEN DESIGNS

The bag on the left was made by wilde_mother in April 2018. A year later this bag showed up on Dolls Kill.

Here is wilde_mother’s Etsy shop, support her instead

https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/WildeMother?ref=usf_2020

THE QUALITY OF DOLLS KILL’S IN HOUSE BRAND

I was flicking through the #boycottdollskill on Instagram when I came across this story.

According to creep3rgirl these shoes were not from a brand that Dolls Kill stock, these shoes are made by Dolls Kill’s own in house brand. Not that I would recommend you shop at Dolls Kill at all, however if you do I would stay clear of Dolls Kill’s in house brand.

Not long after posting this creep3rgirl got a DM from the owner of Dolls Kill, Shoddy Lyn.

Here is the message

After receiving this extremely unprofessional response from Shoddy Lyn, creep3rgirl was blocked from both Dolls Kill’s Instagram and Shoddy Lyn’s Instagram.

If you go back this post you will see that years ago, Shoddy Lyn responded to me in a similar manner in which she responded to creep3rgirl when I made a post on Instagram about one of the companies she stocks on her website ripping off a small independent designer.

So it seems that not much has changed with Dolls Kill or Shoddy Lyn since then.

ABATTOIRE ACCUSES SUGARTHRILLZ, A BRAND STOCKED BY DOLLS KILL OF STEALING ONE OF HER DESIGNS

Another indie fashion designer has come forward claiming that Sugar Thrillz a brand that Dolls Kill stock on their website copied one of her designs.

They look extremely similar to me and as I said in my last post, this seems to happen to much with Dolls Kill for it to be a coincidence in my opinion.