{"id":12318,"date":"2009-12-11T09:20:31","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T17:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=12318"},"modified":"2009-12-11T13:45:27","modified_gmt":"2009-12-11T21:45:27","slug":"chanel-sends-dc-a-cease-desist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=12318","title":{"rendered":"Chanel Sends DC A Cease &#038; Desist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/chaneldc_logo.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/chaneldc_logo.jpg','popup','width=238,height=94,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/chaneldc_logo-tm.jpg\" height=\"78\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Chaneldc Logo\" \/><\/a>The <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dcshoes.com\/\">DC Shoes<\/a><\/strong> website seems to be missing a few belts, wallets, and other accessories that featured the DC logo. And there appears to be what one friend called &#8220;a distinct lack of snowboards&#8221; on the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/snow.dcshoes.com\/\">DC Snowboarding<\/a><\/strong> website.  Strange, no?<\/p>\n<p>According to sources, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chanel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chanel<\/a><\/strong>, which makes a few belts, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chanel.com\/fashion\/8#8-small-leather-goods-chanel-accessories-3,1\" target=\"_blank\">wallets<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chanel.com\/fashion\/9-resin-wood-and-fiberglass-snowboard-with-chanel-signature-genuine-four-leaf-clover-inlaid-on-the-board-fit-for-any-level-of-snowboarder--8,6,3,5#9-resin-wood-and-fiberglass-snowboard-with-chanel-signature-genuine-four-leaf-clover-inlaid-on-the-board-fit-for-any-level-of-snowboarder--8,6,3,5\" target=\"_blank\">snowboards<\/a><\/strong>, and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/hypebeast.com\/2009\/12\/chanel-sports-collection\/\" target=\"_blank\">other sporting equipment<\/a><\/strong> of their own, has reportedly sent DC a cease and desist letter requesting that DC stop producing several items featuring the Chanel-like intertwined DC letters. From the looks of the DC websites it appears that <strong>Quiksilver<\/strong> legal is cooperating with the request and then some.<\/p>\n<p>Those who follow along may remember a similar skirmish between the brands in the 90s when DC founders <strong>Ken Block<\/strong> and <strong>Damon Way<\/strong> reportedly made a deal suggesting that since DC was &#8220;just a small skateboard company&#8221; that Chanel would allow DC to use the logo on skate shoes and some apparel. Now that DC is part of a billion dollar fashion label it appears that Chanel is looking at their products a little more carefully and it would appear that at least a few logo changes may be on the horizon at DC.<\/p>\n<p>Requests for comment to both Chanel and Quiksilver have not been returned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DC Shoes website seems to be missing a few belts, wallets, and other accessories that featured the DC logo. And there appears to be what one friend called &#8220;a distinct lack of snowboards&#8221; on the DC Snowboarding website. Strange, no? According to sources, Chanel, which makes a few belts, wallets, snowboards, and other sporting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12318"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12318"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12340,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12318\/revisions\/12340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}