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Steve Madden and Alice + Olivia’s Stacey Bendet Publicly Spar Over Alleged Knockoffs

Bendet posted the heated exchange on Instagram and the video has since made waves online. 
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Steve Madden and Alice + Olivia's Stacey Bendet.
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Steve Madden and Alice + Olivia CEO Stacey Bendet got into a public argument over the weekend when the two accused each other of creating knockoff designs. Bendet posted the heated exchange on Instagram and the video has since made waves online.

The dispute appeared to have taken place in a hotel lobby, where Bendet said she was accompanied by her four-year-old daughter when she ran into Madden, who is founder, creative and design chief of his eponymous footwear and accessories conglomerate. Madden, said Bendet, complemented her outfit. Then, she asked him “if he was going to continue to copy it like he did with my trademarked Stace designs,” Bendet’s said in her social media post.

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Alice + Olivia’s “Staceface” design.Courtesy of brand

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In the video, Madden is heard responding, “Honey, if you’re going to be rude, you can go f**k yourself. … You copy people all the time. We were making faces way before you.”

In the now-viral exchange, Bendet was likely referencing a lawsuit her company filed in 2018 against the Steve Madden-owned Betsey Johnson label for copyright and trademark infringement. The Betsey Johnson company was acquired by Madden in 2010. In the 2018 suit, Alice & Olivia had accused Betsey Johnson of using Bendet’s signature face, the “StaceFace,” on its bags.

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