Claims extracted
29
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
3%
1 of 29 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
not political
takes no side on a contested political question
Publisher signals
66/100
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This week, Walmart shoppers flipped when they discovered a pair of $30 jeans that appeared to be a dead ringer for a $620 pair adored by Kendall Jenner and Rihanna.
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that → flip → Jenner
The original pants are from Khaite, a 10-year-old label by Soho art darling Catherine Holstein, who previously worked at Gap and Very Wang.
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who → work → Gap
Enter Walmart designer Brandon Maxwell, a fashion buddy of Holstein’s who has moonlit as a Project Runway judge.
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who → enter → judge
After taking over Walmart’s Scoop and Free Assembly lines in 2021, the designer — who has created couture for Jennifer Lawrence and Meghan Markle — duped Khaite’s fashion-famous jeans, right down to their signature black enamel buttons.
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who → take → buttons
Online, Maxwell’s denim for Walmart goes up to a women’s 28 — more than twice the size of Khaite’s thin-spiration.
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denim → go → spiration
At $30, it also costs just 5% of Holstein’s premium pants.
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it → cost → pants
Maxwell has always been an advocate for size diversity, regularly including larger models at his celeb-jammed fashion shows and telling Bustle that he’s been making plus-size clothes “from day one.”
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he → include → day
He added, “Our job is to make women feel good.
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women → add → ?
If you have a problem doing that, with any type of woman, then you should not be doing this job.”
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you → have → job
The $30 dupe jeans have sparked a fashion frenzy, with sources inside the brand telling The Post that they “cannot restock them fast enough” online.
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they → spark → them
Stella Kittrell, a plus-size model and influencer, bought “every shade” of the Khaite dupes.
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Kittrell → buy → dupes
“All my plus-sized luxury girlies are going to be so excited,” she said.
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she → go → ?
“Walmart, you outdid yourselves.”
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you → outdo → yourselves
“A win is a win,” conceded luxury fashion consultant Casey Morrow Lewis, who runs the popular Substack newsletter After School, which tracks Gen Z spending habits.
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which → concede → habits
She noted on TikTok that the washes appear “almost completely identical” according to shoppers.
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washes → note → shoppers
Still, some fashion insiders are raising eyebrows that the Walmart jeans are so close to Khaite’s original, black-buttoned version — especially because the two designers are friends.
“Fashion is such a small world,” a top publicist, who has worked with both Brandon Maxwell and Catherine Holstein, told The Post.
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who → raise → Post
“They know each other.
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They → know → other
They’re friendly.
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They → ’re → ?
They’ve been up for the same industry awards and go to the same dinners and parties.
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They → go → dinners
And now he goes and dupes her?
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he → go → her
It feels petty.”
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It → feel → ?
“It’s almost like Brandon is saying, ‘Hey Cate, this is so easy, even Walmart can do it,'” said a top stylist, who asked for anonymity because she regularly works with the notoriously private Khaite brand.
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she → ’ → brand
She said the black enamel buttons on the jeans — known as a Khaite signature — are especially eyebrow-raising, at least if one views them pre-Botox.
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one → say → Botox
“He’s kind of trolling her.”
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He → troll → her
But Lewis insisted the move is actually good for both Maxwell and Holstein.
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move → insist → Maxwell
“Khaite is very well known among fashion people but it is hardly a household name.
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it → know → people
Plenty of people are hearing about Khaite for the first time through the dupe…
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Plenty → hear → dupe
Walmart [is] helping establish Khaite as a brand to aspire to.”
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Walmart → help → brand
Ironically, Walmart also sells Khaite handbags at a discount — this popular studded Elena bag is currently at the big-box paradise for $800 off.
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bag → sell → 800
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