Can We Talk? Cartier Sues QVC!

According to WWD, Cartier, that ubiquitous French staple of the wanna be rich and stylish, is suing QVC for selling some Joan Rivers watches that infringe on their designs.

They're kidding, right?

Cartier is threatened by Joan Rivers on the Q? Seriously???

Do they understand that us poor folk survive off these celebrity-endorsed cheap, plastic knock-offs from home shopping channels? How else are we going to look "Madison Avenue" or "Ladies Who Lunch?" Honestly!

I wonder which of her watches they are talking about. Joan needs to leak that information because you know those particular watches would start selling like haute cakes!

Aren't all watches ripoffs of other watches in some form or fashion? I'm sure all of Cartier's designs are "pure" either. If I were Joan, I would take it as a huge compliment that Cartier thinks hers are so good they're worth suing over.

I don't have any of her watches, but I do have this Steel by Design watch that is ... ahem ... Cartier inspired (it even has the blue hands). I love it and wear it almost every day. And, trust me, I wasn't debating between getting the $35 watch and the $10,000 watch!

Cartier Taste on a CZ Budget

Let me tell you, Suzanne might sell fake diamond rings on HSN for $24.90, but she hangs out with the Cartier crowd! Her Royal Highness of HSN was reported by the Wall Street Journal to be at a super swanky shindig last month thrown for the wealthy ladies-who-lunch crowd.

Apparently, after slapping the Cartier name on everything from lighters to Baskin-Robbins ice cream, the Cartier brand has been oh ... what's a nice way to put this ... Wal-Marted down a peg or two. Without the old panache of the Cartier brand to fall back on, they are having to work it a little harder to get the rich folks like Suzanne to open their wallets.

At the soiree, the ladies passed around little baubles--stuff like a 51-carat, yellow diamond ring!--like Queen Bea tosses around nesting bowls at a Tupperware party.

During a presentation of famous Cartier clients, “The famously blond-bobbed Ms. Somers jabbed her neighbor to point out photos of Cartier patrons and influences whose clothes intrigued her: a snazzy bejeweled dress, a pair of sparkly cowboy boots.”

Sparkly cowboy boots??? Gotta love Suzanne!