Lilla's Bellydancecostumes.com Was My First

[zena]

Clearly Michelle Joyce in Bella.

I checked Michelle's website and she has those photos up in her costumes for sale section (in the sold section).

I'm not at all impressed with the Lila site.

 

[Daimona]

I checked Michelle's website and she has those photos up in her costumes for sale section (in the sold section).

:think: Another interesting question would be: Do Michelle and the other profiled dancers acknowledged their photos in Lila's photo gallery?

 

[Aniseteph]

Here it is in all it's delicious detail on Michelle Joyce's site:
Arabic Dance - michelle's bellydance bio

(PS. drools all over keyboard, are Michelle Joyce's costumes totally and utterly GORGEOUS or what?)

 

[Suzanne Azhaar]

The Bella looks fantastic with all the enormous crystals, sequins, beads, rhinestones and of course Michelle Joyce. She makes any outfit like fantastic.

 

[nightdancer]

Just a note that the filename on the photo is "www.bellydancecostumes.com/bella-brown-03.JPG". The file name on from the photo on Michelle's site is "a6af10be-1978-4d09-a605-ce463db5ac2d" The file name was changed, meaning that she knows its a Bella.

Wonder if Bella and Michelle would like to know about this.

 

[zena]

Just a note that the filename on the photo is "www.bellydancecostumes.com/bella-brown-03.JPG". The file name on from the photo on Michelle's site is "a6af10be-1978-4d09-a605-ce463db5ac2d" The file name was changed, meaning that she knows its a Bella.

Wonder if Bella and Michelle would like to know about this.

The OP had started a thread called Bella vs. Lila. I find it laughable that she is criticizing Bella, but yet on the Lila site a photo of Bella's designs was poached.

That Bella is beautiful and Michelle does look great in it. I saw another pic on Lila's site that looks like a Pharaonics that I was drooling over.

 

[zena]

Ok - scroll down to the 3rd pic and look for this costume "Belly Dancer Malika from California, In our Silver and Gold on Copper Designer Egyptian costume"

Photo Gallery3


Now compare it to this Pharaonics costume.

Audrena.com -> Aida 2005 Belly Dance Costume


Is the brown one similar to the Pharaonics or are my eyes just playing tricks on me?

 

[PracticalDancer]

Couple of thoughts:

The pic of Suzanna Del Vecchio on photo gallery page 1 is her "standard stock" portrait she uses on her site. Since she allowed my troupe to use it when we held an event with her several years ago, it appears she has rights to use that image in promoting her work. But, she and the photographer would probably be very interested in its commercial use here.

On Photo gallery page 4 is a photo purporting to be a Playboy cover from November 2007. This looks like a "put yourself on the cover" kind of photo gift, since the actual cover is very different, based on a quick image search. Again, Playboy wold probably be VERY interested that their name is being used to sell costumes.

hmmm . . .

 

[Suzanne Azhaar]

The dance detectives have discovered the images of Suzanna Del Vecchio & Michelle Joyce, the work of Bella, Pharonics, and Playboy magazine were potentially purloined for Lila's site without giving proper identification to the individuals or their work. :naghty:

Based on that this site would not be used by myself to order costuming, no matter how well someone else likes it. It has a feel of dishonesty.

 

[lizaj]

Oh dear..have we started something. Far from promoting Lila, it seems Danya you have done her no favour or shall we take the Machiavellian view and this is what she intended