trolling, theft, creative convos
Navigating Sharing Ideas as a Sensitive Creative
FOR ANYONE WHO VERBALLY SHARED CREATIVE IDEAS BUT THEN IMMEDIATELY WANTED TO SNATCH THEM BACK FROM THE AIR.
This week, we're talking about what happens when you share about your creative ideas in conversation and only after do you realize that those ideas are now up for grabs/theft/use without citation... but you don't mean them to be.
Ready to roll? Let's hop on into The Mixing Bowl...
(Some context before the whisk gets to whisking...)
Enter the chat, Telfar Clemens of Telfar and Jerry Lorenzo of Fear of God - two successful Black American fashion houses. Telfar creates a t-shirt and sweatshirt capsule collection that says ‘FEAR OF JOB,’ seemingly a play on Jerry’s Fear of God fashion house name. People immediately publicly react saying Telfar stole from/copied Jerry. Buuut, behind the scenes they had talked about it and their shared value of not working for anyone else and are amused at everyone’s quick assumption that Telfar is trolling FoG.
Creative idea convo gone good.
The end.
Oh, here's an image of a tee from the collection and Jerry's response to the collection.
This all brings to mind relational agreements, unspoken conversational negotiations. The unofficial collaborations and permissions creatives end up giving. Not saying that FoG creator, Jerry, wasn’t completely in his yes/no awareness energy. I have no idea. But for my creative cousins – who tend to automatically manage the emotions and energy in the room and often say ‘yes’ before the ‘no’ even registers in their body – these types of creative inspiration conversations can be a minefield.
