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*Hip-hop mogul Damon Dash has been ordered to pay $330,000 to a former business partner who accused him of reneging on a 2006 loan. Tom Nastos, who ran an apparel company which distributed the Rocawear clothing line the star launched with his former pal Jay Z, claims he fronted Dash $240,000 seven years ago on [...]
*Jay-Z and his partners were slapped with a $7 million lawsuit by a clothing designer who claims he’s owed unpaid royalties for designing their logo for Rocawear. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] Clothing designer Dwayne Walker claims in a lawsuit filed in Manhattan Federal Court, New York, yesterday: ”The logo has become universally recognized as [...]
*The New York Yankees could be rocking some new styled gear pretty soon. On Wednesday, Jay-Z officially announced a new partnership between the baseball team and his beloved brand Rocawear. This partnership means Rocawear will be riding high at Yankee stadium and integrated into several promotions throughout the season. Via a press release, Jameel Spencer, [...]
*While all seems flowers and candy in the world of Hip Hop mogul Jay-Z since the birth of his baby girl, his good name isn’t fairing too well in the business market. Rocawear clothing, the company he co-founded with producer Damon Dash in 1999, executed a massive layoff and is currently on the verge [...]
*Looks like Jay-Z is still selling his “Occupy All Streets” t-shirts, despite claims yesterday to the contrary. As previously reported, the New York Daily News posted a piece saying Jigga’s clothing company Rocawear had suspended sales of the tee supporting the Occupy Wall Street movement in the wake of widespread criticism. But according to a [...]
*Jay-Z’s Rocawear clothing line has stopped selling online its controversial “Occupy Wall Street” themed t-shirts after the 99 percent put him on blast for attempting to profit from the movement. The shirts, which were yanked from Rocawear’s website, featured the words “Occupy Wall Street,” but the “W” squiggled out and an “S” added to “street” [...]
*Jay-Z is releasing a new line of T-shirts in support of the Occupy Wall Street movement Friday via his Rocawear clothing label, but according to The Hollywood Reporter, there’s no plan to share any of the profits with the protesters. The rapper was recently seen wearing one of the shirts, which tweaks the phrase “Occupy [...]
*Jay Z is expanding his business empire with the purchase of a clothing collection co-owned by superproducer Pharrell Williams. The rap mogul has obtained the licensing to manufacture and distribute the Billionaire Boys Club label via his Rocawear brand, according to GQ.com. Jay-Z and Pharrell will work “as a tandem” to capitalize on “Jay Z’s [...]
*Jay-Z is on the move with Rocawear, launching a new online marketing campaign on Thursday. The brand will seed the web with 37 short videos featuring an eclectic mix of musicians, poets, artists, and of course a troupe of double-dutchers. This new move is supposed to shift the label from urban to mainstream, touching people [...]
*Jay-Z co-hosted a Fashion Week party with GQ earlier this week after performing at two sold-out shows at Yankees Stadium. Jay teamed with GQ to primarily show off his new and improved Rocawear line for the spring. While not usually considered in the class of high fashion covered by the men’s magazine, the media mogul [...]
*The New York Post has a story pointing out Jay-Z’s investment woes due to the “Great Recession” of 2009/10. For example: * Two Manhattan hotel development projects, one in Chelsea and the other in the Meatpacking District, fizzled out this year, costing Jay-Z and a company he controls about $50 million. * His almost 7-year-old [...]
*Roughly 125,000 tons of counterfeit designer goods are headed to Haiti for needy victims of the earthquake, according to Huffington Post. About $10 million worth of fake merchandise with such labels as True Religion, Rocawear, Ralph Lauren, Diesel, and Ed Hardy will be shipped to the country after having their labels removed, per legal requirement. [...]
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