PR Disasters part 11

[HoldMyWine]

The ongoing dramas from Montecito courtesy of H&M.

I can’t see another thread but I made the same mistake last time …

I honestly don’t understand why she keeps going with all these ventures that last five minutes and have no credibility

She seems to move in her own space-time continuum.

+/- 5cm is a whole size difference.

I thought M hadn't got a licence for selling clothing , or am I out of date on that one? There was a Chinese company & a NY company with very similar names.

Maybe she’s going to supply the Invictus tee-shirts - nice big spendy contract - and she’ll finally wear one!

It’s just a cut and paste sizing chart that snow commerce uses for all their fandom merch shops. This is the paramount store sizing chart. It’s the same just different colours/font

So, as ever, M&H appear to have pissed off two opposing factions who one might reasonably expect to take up contrary position to each other!

This did make me laugh. I mean, that is quite a skill!

Some ideas for slogans for the T Shirts.

My best friend went to the Met Gala and all I got was this lousy T Shirt

Front - backs of A and L's heads - Back - A and L's faces

On the back
Nigeria 2024
Columbia 2024
Los Angeles Wildfires 2025
Australia 2026 (See One Off for T-shirt pricing)

It can’t be true! Meghan is not allowed to sell clothing under her as ever label remember, it was denied because there was already an “as ever” clothing brand that holds that patent ( or trademark!)

And Mark Dyer, Paul Saunders and Misan Harriman are busy pissing off everybody else.

One big happy band of brothers and sisters.

Yes but Meghan is The Duchess of Sussex ( and don’t you forget it) so minor details like that won’t stop this founder !

I'm with you here. What is the point??

I think it's a continuation of throw enough stuff at the wall and see if anything sticks.
Which of course is a tried and trusted way of building up a successful and credible business 😂

My god but she has some tenacity

It's actually even worse than that, @SqueakyDinosaur, in that if it all creates too much angst there's every chance Harry might step in with a speech about how they're getting it all wrong and could solve things if only they'd listen to his wisdom

Which wouldn't exactly help matters ...

Honestly I think KC should distance himself from this farrago as far as he can. I would hope the MIGS have picked up on the question about IG funding etc and might be arguing the same. Anyway this is Harry's Big Thing - a short , " Good Luck Darling Boy , don't want to steal your thunder " might suffice. Anyway I would have thought what H really wants is a commitment to the opening in 2027 and isn't that Camilla's 80th birthday. If KC hasn't booked up a party and a week in Birkhall by now , perhaps it's about time he did. & I am sure W would just say no, not doing it.

... a short , " Good Luck Darling Boy , don't want to steal your thunder " might suffice

I'd hope so, @BasiliskStare, and I've no doubt the suits will have sussed this out and advised Charles accordingly, but with Charles there's no knowing what he's likely to do

It hardly matters though; if dad fails to attend Harry will doubtless play victim again, and if he does contribute that'll probably be wrong too

Loving the t-shirt slogan suggestions! 😄

Me neither. It's been obvious for a while that she's lost interest in As Ever. The whole daft Circus of this project being the thing she's wanted to do her whole life and within a couple of years, she's lost interest.
Not only that but if it's going to fold she needs to diversify fast so she can say that it's been a glorious success that has given her the confidence to pursue her true passion of fashion.

I sometimes have thoughts that it’s all so mad it has to be a cover story, like 007 and ‘Universal Exports’.

‘The name’s Sussex. Meghan Sussex.’

Which brings us back to T-shirt slogans, I guess.

My understanding is that there is to be a service of thanksgiving plus a ball to celebrate.
I doubt H and M will be invited.

I am sure you are right @Puzzledandpissedoff re "It hardly matters though; if dad fails to attend Harry will doubtless play victim again, and if he does contribute that'll probably be wrong too" . I hope against hope the investigation of IG is gaining some traction. So if KC doesn't turn up do people care if H whinges about it? Safest thing to do would be to stay distant. Certainly for the One Year to Go visit , and who knows at current course and speed if these games will even take place in their current imagined form.

It was interesting that Sanders chap making such a mess of the Q&A - coming on the heels of (I think Alison Boschoff? ) talking abut the chap they were trying to recruit as Head of Marketing and Communications - the one who said didn't want anything to do with it if it were H&M involved. Also I think same chap said , anyone any good won't be available at this notice. So perhaps not a surprise the AMA thing was a mess. I think the whole thing has been deleted now.

& I do think the Council elections might make a difference. I'm still not clear if the pledged £26m was meant to mean Birmingham had £0 cost and visitors , tourism etc was all upside. However , that would mean there were sponsors to comfortably pay for the rest I assume. Which it isn't clear there is at the moment.

😂

MNHQ can we have the laugh emoji back if we promise to play nicely.

Regarding Ingriftus. Why can't H come over on his own in July ? Makes absolutely no sense.

& I do think the Council elections might make a difference. I'm still not clear if the pledged £26m was meant to mean Birmingham had £0 cost and visitors , tourism etc was all upside. However , that would mean there were sponsors to comfortably pay for the rest I assume. Which it isn't clear there is at the moment.

@BasiliskStare, I read last night on Reddit that the £26m was for the bidding process.

The mind boggles.