E-commerce site Redbubble restricts ‘Schindler’s List’ design after leggings go viral

(JTA) – The web design market Redbubble mentioned it had “restricted” gross sales of a “Schindler’s Listing”-inspired design on its web site after the Jewish Telegraphic Company reported on a pair of leggings that includes characters from the film that lit up the Web this week.

“The art work referenced on this article has been restricted and we’re including further monitoring measures because of this,” Redbubble spokesperson Marissa Hermo informed JTA in a press release.

The leggings in query, which had been first noticed at a Los Angeles thrift retailer, sported illustrations of characters from Steven Spielberg’s 1993 Holocaust drama, together with a picture of a prepare main into Auschwitz. They had been first posted to a preferred Instagram web page.

Previous to Redbubble imposing restrictions, the design was on the market on all kinds of merchandise, together with skirts, bathe curtains and iPhone instances; the spokesperson mentioned that such objects “could be seen as trivializing the subject material.”

Redbubble permits impartial designers to add and promote their creations on its platform, which may then be printed onto quite a lot of merchandise.

“With all content material uploaded by third social gathering customers, often there are content material points that come up that don’t adjust to our protocols,” Hermo’s assertion mentioned. “We proactively monitor {the marketplace} every day and work to limit sure designs from particular merchandise when not acceptable.”

How lengthy the “Schindler’s Listing” merchandise had been accessible was unclear past the truth that it was lengthy sufficient for a pair of leggings to be bought, then donated to a thrift retailer. The objects’ authentic designer didn’t reply to a JTA request for remark.

Redbubble mentioned it will limit the design to be accessible solely on “wall artwork,” and that every other merchandise on the market with the design had been the results of “technical points.” However by the top of the day Thursday, all merchandise with the design had disappeared from its web site.