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Antha Panthaa for Ice Studios, directed by Renell Medrano
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Just something I noticed about changes to the icestudios.co website and Jess's name being erased even more than it was after the previous changes.
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There is something I don't understand, I looked on Google and it's Renell who is the cofounder of Ice Studio and not Jess so why did she make everyone believe that it's her the co-founder of this company and yet it is written on Google Ice Studio by Renell Medrano and I saw nowhere that Jess works there as a Photographer, model, designer or whatever.
Does Renell accept that Jess posts celebrity photos on IG ?
Is Renell paying Jess to post her own work (Renell s work) ?
I'm wondering all these questions because Renell follows Jess on IG, it's not that I'm defending Jess but if she is stealing photos of companies whether Renell or Quill by taking screenshots and posting them on IG without both of their consent, they would have sued her.
The official website is very poorly set up and confusing. If you go to the official site this is what you'll get:
The only links that you can click from this page are up at the top left which is a link to the Instagram account, the online store (which isn't even open or running), and an email address [email protected] which was changed because it used to [email protected] in fact, all of the contact information used to go directly to Jess. It doesn't now. There are no other active links on this homepage that you can access just by looking at it because whoever is setting up these websites doesn't know jackshit about web design.
However, if you do a bit of digging, you can eventually find this page:
There is no link to access this page from their homepage, which you think there would be because the static homepage alone gives literally no information as to what this website or business or page is. At all. Which is why people go to websites in the first place. Here on this page, you can see what it says in the corner:
Only here will you find Jess mentioned on the site (the link/button that says close doesn't work either) so basically their website is broken and they've hidden this information from the general public who might find their website in the first place.
You can also eventually find this page if you look hard enough but in total, there are only 4 pages on this website, you have to look for all of them (and know their exact URL). Most people aren't going to know how to do this or won't bother. They might click on one of the three available links up at the top but that's about it. Their website has always been mostly set up like this anyway but now they've definitely gone out of their way to hide Jess being part of it more than they had before.
It is true that if you Google the shop it only says that Renell comes up:
The problem with this is that back when Complexcon was happening Jess was not only "advertising" that they were looking for a graphic designer (as if she were hiring them) but she also promoted the convention and then someone thanked her for her help setting up the shop/booth whatever at the convention. Jess also has worn Ice Merchandise quite a few times in her IG stories and for years the link in her IG profile bio has been for the shop not for the main website. This means that Jess must have some kind of investment in this shop because she wouldn't have a reason to promote it otherwise. Renell also used to have a post claiming Jess was "ice cru" but removed that post from her Instagram as well. [Source]
It gets even weirder when you realize that Renell herself, by herself, not with Jess, founded Ice Studios as a business in 2017 before she even met Jess. Public records show that Ice Studios LLC was established in 2017.
This is confirmed by interviews that Renell did where she says she already created the business and they date back to 2016 and 2017. [Source]
In that weird interview Jess does for BEATS REWIND she says flat out that she has no idea how to manage a photographer or what she's doing or anything like that but she "Has to help Renell" and she apparently approached Renell with some hair-brained half-assed scheme about being her manager and representing her and talked her into forming the Ice Studios artist collective or whatever which was established in 2021.
Still, once again, Jess does abundantly appear to be part of this shop's creation because of posts she's made about the shop and merchandise dating back to 2021 when Bella Hadid was actually doing things with them. Jess has some investment in both the shop and the "artist collective" (though I'm not sure if the collective makes money or even how it would make money). Except the Ice Studios business was founded entirely by Renell, and that can be proven, so how Jess ever got to the status of co-founder makes no sense. Not unless Jess bought out half of the business or made some deal with Renell to get half the business so she could call herself the co-founder.
How Jess manipulated Renell into doing this when by her own admission she had no idea what she was doing (she just saw Renell as a cash cow and "had to make it happen") I really don't know. Jess didn't have experience with this (still doesn't) and yet she still somehow conned Renell into believing that her help would be super beneficial. The problem is we can all see that it has never been beneficial. Bella Hadid cut ties with modeling for them and promoting for them. They aren't a recognizable name brand to basically anyone. They aren't trendy or even a niche/cult trend. They just had a sample sale to try to get rid of merch and almost no one even showed up to it.
By all accounts, Jess has only ever been detrimental to Renell, Quil, and Nikki.
As for the stolen/borrowed/owned photos....there's a whole can of worms. If Jess legally owns half of this business entity then she may have all legal rights to post all photos that Renell takes because Renell works for/owns part of Ice Studios. This may be a situation of whether Renell likes it or not because Jess is so entangled with the "business" Jess can do whatever she wants with any photo Renell takes because if that photo is automatically property of Ice Studios and Jess is part owner then Jess owns it too.
I did mention that Jess has abruptly stopped posting Quil's photos and Nikki's Photos (for some reason) when she used to do that all the time. She also used to straight up steal celebrity photos from other accounts (like Billie Eilish and Lily-Rose Depp) and repost them but she doesn't do that either. The long and short of it is that something definitely happened here that is shady, went wrong, and it looks like they are trying to distance Jess's association with them. The problem is that if they are trying to do this and Jess does legally own half the business they still have to list her as co-founder, still cut her in on what little she is legally owed, and still have to put up with her even if they don't want to because otherwise she can sue them.
The only other way to get her out is to buy her out or potentially sue her but if she isn't violating whatever business terms/agreements that were already made they have no case. If they want to buy her out then it will have to be at a price she accepts and knowing her it'll be something ridiculous that Renell can't afford since the business is basically drowning. Whatever narrative her stans like to push (that she's successfully running this company or both of them or whatever) is not true. You can see on paper that it's not true. You can see how badly the "business" has declined since Jess got involved. You can see how they are hiding her involvement from the website as much as they possibly can.
If I had to guess she's only still allowed to do these things and post these things because on paper and legally she owns some part of the business but no one really wants her there so they can't do anything about it until she decides to relinquish control. If she's this awful to deal with over a business she didn't start and should all rights not be a part of imagine how hard it's going to be for Jamie to get rid of her.
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This is the fact: ice studios existed long before Jessica got involved and be one of Renell's team member. Jessica is (probably was) working for Renell and her position has never been mentioned what Jess was working as what. If she was working as a stylist she'd be mentioned under Renell's post. Jess is (or was) just basically a member of the team we don't know what her job position was.
Outside of Jess being "Co-Owner" there's no real job description. Ice Studios definitely was a registered business entity before Jess got involved as well. This is public information that anyone can look up. It's also confusing as to if Jess has anything to do with the store and more to do with the IceStudios.co (artist collective). If you look at the store it's not entirely clear who "owns" or runs it. That was, previously if you were to look at the store. It's still down so there's no way to see any of this.
The point is that Jess must have some investment in the store because the link to it is in her IG profile. She's also worn the merchandise to promote it and last year she ran an IG story claiming that Ice Studios was looking for a graphic artist. However, people have reported that if you attempt to contact IceStudios.co, IceStudios.shop or Jess's Management company directly you will never get a response from anyone. Which is concerning for their shop because if something is to go wrong with a product or sales who is anyone supposed to contact and how?
Also, as much as I do trust that Renell works a real job because it's obvious she does I question what her contribution to the products are. Or any of the designs for that matter. I found this website which said that they created the "brand identity" for Renell (logos and website) if you try to contact them they never answer emails either. That still doesn't explain who is designing the clothing and items (unless they are doing a collaboration like with ASCICS or Port Tanger). Who is designing the rest of the clothes? Where are they getting them? Does Jess design them? Renell? One of the other artists in their collective? Someone else? Do they just choose generic blank templates and pay to have their logo added? There's no clear explanation to the vast majority of this.
All we do know is that Jess herself isn't an artist, model, photographer, graphic designer, clothing designer, business manager, or even good at marketing even though she claims to have a degree in it. The entire situation is weird.
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Ice Studios is a company that appears to have been created by Renell Medrano as early as 2016. The earliest mentions of this company are by Renell herself in interviews with Vogue. Jess Moloney is not mentioned in either of the earlier interviews nor was she mentioned in anything more recent that can be found about Ice Studios. Renell seems to always take full credit for this studio.
Yet, somehow, Jess seems to be listed as the co-founder of this studio. The first instance of her having contact with Renell that can be found is in 2019, two years after the studio was founded and two years after what seems like her having any connection to Jess in any capacity. That is not to say that Jess did not help to found the studio, but if she had, why has Renell failed to ever mention her name in any news publication where she is asked about the studio that she runs?
Despite these discrepancies, Jess is in the business of taking clearly stolen media and adding #IceStudios or @IceStudios.co to these photos on IG for some unknown reason. Initially, she merely added this to the post, and the theory is that the intent was to artificially increase engagement for IceStudios. More recently she started to add the caption "Post-Production" and then attribute Ice Studios for that.
However, on several of these posts where she claims involvement directly, it is clear that Ice Studios or herself was not involved in the production of these images, nor do they own them. Most recently, she posted a campaign for Tommy Hilfiger where she claims that Ice Studios did "post-production" for the images. None of which can possibly be true.
The campaign was launched weeks before she posted about it. The official Tommy Hilfiger account doesn't tag, attribute, or mention her account or Ice Studios (nor do they follow either) and any official press release on these images does not mention her or Ice Studios. On top of that, when I questioned Jess about her involvement in the production of these images she immediately blocked me. I mean within a minute or two. She's also hidden likes on the posts which seem to have gotten little to no engagement anyway. You will find the same to be the case on a good majority of her posts with stolen magazine covers, or images stolen from more popular accounts like Lily-Rose Depp.
The IceStudios website is very confusing. If you go to IceStudios.co you get a static page and the only links are back to their IG account and a contact link, an email that goes directly to Jess. The only way to see other pages on this website is to manually enter the addresses for them. Why all of these pages are hidden unless you specifically try to find them, is anyone's guess. One of the pages does attribute Jess Moloney to being the co-founder. All contact e-mails refer back to Jess herself and there doesn't seem to be any contact that goes back to Renell.
The management company listed as managing IceStudios on official records is listed as Odis Management and not Jess Moloney Management. There is no public business registry that I can find anywhere that says Jess is involved with the company in any official or legal capacity other than clearly having access to the website and claiming she's a co-founder.
Just as I started to question Jess's legitimacy and involvement with this company she posted a job listing on her IG account (as a story) looking for a freelance graphic design artist for Ice Studios. Questions about this range from:
Why does she suddenly need a graphic artist?
Why wouldn't she post this listing on a legitimate employment website?
What happened to the graphic design artist who is clearly already working for them?
How serious is this job listing if she only posted it as an IG story, no link to any legitimate website to apply, and provided just an email address?
One would think if this was a serious offer she'd have made a more serious and legitimate post. One would also think that with how small the business is and how little she seems to be truly involved in it they aren't so inundated with sudden work that they need to hire someone else. As the job is listed as "freelance" and not full-time, it's curious as to why she didn't just Google literally any website that has freelance graphic design artists listed (of which there are many) or ask any of the various connections she allegedly has. Ironically, this website is supposed to be an artist collective, and yet she still needs to hire an artist? It seems to me that this post is not a legitimate position for her company but an attempt to make it look like she's actually doing work when, in reality, she doesn't.
This is all the current information on IceStudios as it is known publicly and should anything be found out in the future it will be added to this post.
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Update:
IceStudios.co changed a whole bunch of things on their website three days ago.
The contact information used to be all directed to Jess but now the contact email address is "[email protected]" instead of "[email protected]"
They also removed dozens of pages, they used to have portfolio pages for Nikki, Renell, and Quil but all of that is gone. If you look at their sitemap they only have 4 pages now instead of dozens of them.
They also changed their fav icon logo to a new logo that isn't the usual Ice Studios logo that they used to have:
Jess is still mentioned on the website as one of the founders but everything seems to be redirected/removed so it doesn't all go to Jess.
Here's a link to back up what I'm saying it's a "tour" of how the website looked before three days ago.
So maybe the theory they are trying to get rid of Jess (or at very least severely minimize her control/role) isn't that off after all.
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"How does this business still exist without it being a scam, money laundering, or some other sort of front?"-This has to be a scam. Nothing about this screams latest brand on the rise. It's as if Jess got invited by a market to be a vendor and rushed to get a booth, hire people to help her sell stuff she made herself. There is nothing professional about this at all. There wasn't a rush of people at the booth. The clothes are vastly overpriced, poor quality. This is a scam and Jess is a con.
Not to mention it's absolutely not clear who actually designs these clothes. At all. It says "designed by Ice Studios" but who is that? Ice Studios isn't a person. The website says it's a "collective of artists" but for some reason, the website is separate from the shop, no idea why that still doesn't make sense. Wouldn't it make the most sense to put the shop on the IceStudios.co website? Why have that website and then a different website for a shop? Why have a shop IG account and then an account just for Ice Studios and not the shop? Is there a purpose other than to *maybe* increase web traffic? Then again with how poorly both sites are set up all it's doing is confusing people.
Anyway, the point is that we don't even know who designs this merch. Considering you can find extremely similar items (for a lot cheaper) at a lot of different places, how do we know they aren't buying bulk from somewhere, having a custom logo printed onto it, and then selling that at an extreme markup? I'm pretty sure there are print shops where if you provide the material they'll add any custom logo/tag you want. If they didn't do that then did Jess design these items? Did Renell? Was it both of them? Who designed the sunglasses, once again, it just says "collaboration with Ice Studios". Well, the two owners of that are Jess and Renell so did one of them design it? Both? or did they find some bulk outlet place like Ali Express and then buy a bunch of those and sell them for 10 times what they are worth?
The hats say "Made in Germany" the camo jacket says "Made in NYC", the skirt says "Made in Turkey", and the rest of the items don't say where they are made. You can get the socks made from the same materials (more than one pair) for a fraction of the price on Amazon. With the obviously poor quality that can plainly be seen in the photos, they are definitely outsourcing this to a sweatshop, paying maybe 25 cents for each product and then marking it up 1000 times what it is worth. There's no way this isn't a scam or some kind of bait and switch. I wish I had the money to order one of these and see for myself how terrible it is then I think I'd be able to report them to some organization or something.
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"Yet, the way Ice Studios presents itself to be marketed to a POC demographic and looks like it was set up to be a black-owned business is weird. If this were a black-owned business why would the contact address go right to Jess?"
This is a good question. Which goes back to how none of these people she is posting follows her. If you own this type of business surely you would make your presence known. What Black owned event or anything related to POC has she attended? Besides posting on her page. If it is Black owned, the contact address would not go right to her or at least go to a co-owner who is POC. Where are the co-owners or creative staff that are Black or POC working with her? The whole thing is shady and weird. Considering she may be making racist comments towards fans at conventions.
When I visit the website IceStudios.co (Mobile or Desktop) attempting to click (or tap) on anything (other than contact or the IG account at the bottom) doesn't accomplish literally anything. No menu appears anywhere, nothing pops up, and scrolling doesn't do anything or reveal anything. Does this happen to everyone or just me?
These are the pages I have found but only by typing in the direct link (and that was random guesswork on my part. For example, most websites will have a page called "about" or "home" or something. So that's the only way I found the other pages. Which means that they are intentionally hidden? Unless, as I said, I'm the only one this happens to? If so then I don't know what's going wrong. If not, and this is the page everyone gets let me continue:
If you go to this link you get this:
A brief animation of their logo loads before it just goes blank. Except for the link in the upper right-hand corner which says information. If you click on that you get this page:
First of all a "community" is not two people but I guess they do say they "represent" a growing family of global artists. However, the two contact email addresses are Jess. This other alleged founder is not listed to contact. Why?
If you go lower and click on CREDITS you see that the website was designed by "Something Special Studios" with Leonardo Angelucci.
If you click on terms and conditions you get this wall of standard text and terms and conditions which was probably copy/pasted from somewhere.
You can get to this page if you manually type in the link and it seems to be about one of the other alleged founders of the studio. If you try to click on the lower right link (which should take you to her IG account like every other link that does that) it takes you to a blank page on the website. If you click Biography you get this:
Her actual IG account does have Ice Studios stuff on it (and Ice Studios in the bio, just the words not a link to anything) in fact, there's nothing other than that there. If she's a photographer wouldn't she at least put that? A link to her work? A link to this website? Something? Because this website does have a portfolio of her work on it and names her as a founder.
Despite the fact that they mutually follow each other on IG and allegedly co-founded this artist collective of.... a handful of people I guess...there are no photos of Renell and Jess together that I've found (not yet). They certainly aren't on Renell's account. There's also none on the website (that I've found). Why wouldn't co-founders of a studio not be photographed together? Looking between the two accounts other than the fact that they both post for Ice Studios you'd have no actual idea that Renell co-founded anything or is a photographer for them. Also, why is she a photographer for them seeing as how she apparently also photographs for much bigger and more famous magazines and has 20 times more followers than Jess?
If you poke around enough you can eventually find this list of artists that work for them...allegedly? I can't tell if this is true or just random credits and Jess steals the content and reposts it on her IG. Or is possibly given permission to use it (as these people do seem to mutually follow Jess on her main account but not Ice Studios or anything, which you think they would seeing as how they are supposed to be in a community with them?)
If you look at the profile pages of these artists you will see that none of them link to IceStudios from their bio. Only one of them (from what I can see) is posting stuff from/produced by Ice Studios (or borrowed) from it. This Quil Lemons guy seems to be very successful by himself so what is Jess or this studio actually doing to promote him and if it were working, wouldn't he link back to her website?
There is also no page for Jess on this website, or more accurately if you type in the page name (what it should be) it just comes up blank. Yet you will find that she very clearly is the owner of this thing, and if Renell actually is a co-founder it seems weird that all the contact information would go directly to Jess or there is no way to contact her and Jess. In fact, there seems to be no reason at all to contact Jess. Other than she names herself as a founder. Even more peculiar this whole website, artist studio, collective, whatever is all POC people except for Jess.
These pages are all definitely set up, as I said I don't know if I'm the only one who doesn't see this when I go there and only gets a static landing page but I had to dig around to find all the pages I did find it was not easily accessible from the front page. Jess herself doesn't even link to this website she only links to the shop. Why would the co-founder/photographer not at least put that in her IG Bio, Link back to this website, or have any photos of herself with Jess anywhere?
This website really does seem to be going out of it's way to make it look like it's POC run and owned? I mean that is if you dig around. If everyone is getting the same static page I'm getting when they visit the site then it's completely useless as a website and not meant to showcase anything or anyone. Can someone else check this out and see if they are having the same experience?
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If you look up Ice Studios on the public registry for businesses in New York you can find four listings [Source]. If you go further to look at the information of who owns any of these companies you get a reference to some place called ODIS Management. So she's a management company that has hired another management company to manage the businesses that she's managing? Not saying no one does that but she doesn't have a company doing that for her listing in the UK. It's just her name in the UK.
However, despite the red tape put up here, if you look at the IceStudios.co website and contact button the mail goes right to [email protected] which means she owns/runs that website at the very least. One can only draw the conclusion from there that she would also have to own/run (possibly both) the shop for Ice Studios as well. Also, by extension, the social media accounts.
Yet, the way Ice Studios presents itself to be marketed to a POC demographic and looks like it was set up to be a black-owned business is weird. If this were a black-owned business why would the contact address go right to Jess? Why are there no other names listed in this artist collective that allegedly runs/manages this whole thing? Why is Jess so heavily involved in this company when the facade of it is made out to look like it's black-owned?
Did she set up this company in this fashion herself so she could also claim that she manages it and does PR for it and not have anyone know she also owns it and runs it herself (as a ploy to make it look like she reps a successful business?). Yet, one click on the contact button will take you right back to her....so is she exploiting/appropriating POC culture and images for her own personal gain? Maybe there is an actual explanation for this but that's entirely what it looks like she's doing from the outside. Does anyone have a better explanation for this?
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"I mean who would do business with this woman for any reason? Her websites are basically a portfolio of bad ideas."
For someone who allegedly works with all these top notch brands and celebrities, you would think she would have more professional websites. Wouldn't she be able to afford to hire someone to help her put together proper sites to show her business? Or at least put some effort into it. With all these clients and engagement why are there only 2 people looking to buy your product? I just don't see how she posts all these brands as if she is actually on location and everything is unprofessional. I don't know who would do business with her either. Also, another question is in regards to connections. I wonder if she has asked anyone close to Jamie for money to fund her operation. She is always next to him any time he goes somewhere. Someone like this would actually go with him and try to pitch ideas, ask for funding. Even his family and close friends. It makes me wonder if that could be a reason why there seems to be a distance between him and those who are close to him.
I can build a better website than her. Not that I'm some expert in coding or programming but as I said so many websites these days offer inbuilt programs where it's pretty fool-proof. You drag and drop assets then copy and paste (or just type in whatever you want). Sites like Wix and Squarespace come to mind (mostly because I've seen a lot of adverts for that). WordPress (which you can use for free or pay to host a domain is the same with their websites/blogs. If you go there and look to make a new page it'll say "What kind of page" and then give you a huge list of templates to work from. I don't know how she's screwing up this badly with all the help that is out there. I also don't understand why she doesn't hire someone.
I also wonder why she seems to present that shop as if she doesn't run it when she clearly does. If you go to IceStudios.co (which utilizes some of the same stuff from the shop website) and you go to the contact link the email address [email protected] comes up. The actual shop just has a contact form but I'm assuming because she owns the main website she would own the shop one. This also makes me question why not just put the shop on the regular website. Why does she need two websites for this? Couldn't she create a shop page for that? Or is she trying to make it look like she doesn't run it? If you go to the IG account you find this post:
This clearly isn't Jess and I'm not saying this is someone trying to pretend to be her but why is this person hiding their identity so completely? This seems to be the only person on there who also seems to be maybe part of this shop, like actually running it? But they have gone out of their way to hide their identity. Any other photos are of models that are wearing things they sell except then you see this comment:
Which on that particular post is true. There also seems to be demand for this bikini for some reason but it's never been restocked in the store? Much like the beanies that people want restocked for some reason they've just not been restocked. Also, why exactly do they need to restocked if they are pre-order only? Wouldn't she get a list of pre-orders and then when she had enough be in contact with the company that is making them and submit the order? That seems more logical than whatever the hell is going on here.
Except the website doesn't at all say who the alleged artists are and going by the post above I showed that person clearly doesn't want to be identified with how they are dressed. They aren't wearing a hijab or anything just a hat with some sort of head covering under it. There's no name associated with the post you'd think if they are modeling their outfit, for one they'd model something actually in the shop (none of this stuff is) or at the very least say who they are/credit themselves for the photo. Does this person work for Jess but not want to? Did Jess tell them to pose like this? Who is this person? It's clear that Jess owns both IPs so....what's going on here?
Also, a lot of the comments to any posts seem so random and weird and out of place. How did this shop account get so many followers with so little to offer, content-wise and product-wise. Especially when they seem to sell out of things so fast and never restock anything even when people demand it. On this website, you can buy comments on Instagram (even custom comments) and I don't think Jess is above doing that either. You can also buy Instagram followers and everyone knows that.
This account has more inactive followers than active followers which would indicate some sort of purchase of followers. The engagement is decent but as I mentioned you can buy comments and likes to increase your engagement stats. Not to mention, I'm sure the stans who cling to everything Jess does have also checked out this account/shop. On top of everything else, she's gone out of her way to make it look like it's a POC run/owned business when it's really obvious she's the owner. Is she trying to use this as a marketing gimmick to increase sales? Convince people that a POC woman runs this store/studio when it's actually her who runs it? Why do that? Isn't that a gross misrepresentation of what's going on here? Why can I not find who else is allegedly in this artist collective anywhere?
The only name that ever comes back when looking into Ice Studios and their properties is Jess Moloney. So much of this seems like shady business practices if not outright misrepresentation and fraud. Possibly even exploitation. The engagement is more than likely manufactured as well. I don't really know how to explain what's going on here other than she's trying to look like a PR person and also make it look like she doesn't run these two websites but if you look in the fine print it's clearly her who's behind them. Is her whole plan here to make the companies look like she doesn't own them but they are paying her to promote them or something so then other people think she's good at marketing and hire her? I mean what really is the deal here with this?
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"On IG the actual designers of the sunglasses (by name) do not follow Jess or IceStudios. The accounts that do claim IceStudios in a collaboration (on their website) do not follow Jess or Ice Studios on IG. One of them has posted IceStudios posts. They do not follow her nor does she follow them."
Whenever there is a collaboration, the designers always follow the PR agency that they work with. They also will post the same photos, tag. I don't see that with Jess or IceStudios. It is the same with the magazine covers she posts. I don't see any of those celebrities whether model, rapper, actress. You don't see any of them credit her or even mention her name. I saw Renell a few times but not her. Everything is credited to other people. I hope Jamie hasn't invested money into her scam of a business. What PR person doesn't do work or even know the celebs they post about. It is like a money laundering, Ponzi type scheme. How are you having clothes on pre-order that are sold out. It looks like those pants were an exact copy of the ones from Oakley. Which is half the price from a legit company.
One other thing, who is she? On one hand she is Morticia. Then she is trying to turn Jamie into a Cowboy. If that doesn't work out she will convince him to change to another image. Yet she follows a lot of rappers and models. I don't see her going country at all. Which brings up something I didn't even think before. Could she be setting Jamie up to fail? If there are issues considering a therapist has been involved. Seeing Jamie get successful, all this attention. It may have caused jealousy not only of others around him but she may be jealous of him. Also she may want him dependent on her. Where if what she advised does not work, he will stay dependent on her as a manager and lowers his self esteem. Someone like her is a toxic vampire and master manipulator. I don't know her but not getting any good vibes.
I just made a post about this because I was noticing how weird it was too.
For instance:
She has a bunch of photos recently credited to this QuilleMons account. But that account has three times the amount of followers that she has. They do mutually follow each other but isn't she the one in marketing? Her low engagement and fraction of their followers aren't going to really help promote them better than a much larger account. Why pay her for promotion or let her promote them at all? Do they pay her to make those posts or does she pay them so she can slap her icestudios account on there like she had anything to do with the photoshoot (which she didn't because it doesn't seem like she was involved in any production of any of these shots they are just letting her use them for some reason?)
It's the same situation with the Renellaice account. She has nearly a million followers but Jess is promoting sunglasses designed by her? Does she pay Jess to do this or does Jess pay her to be allowed to promote these things? I see that the sunglasses are a "collaboration" with Port Tanger which credits IceStuidos but Jess is literally the only employee of that studio. Or at least I assume so since she's the one who's making the social media posts and if you try to contact them the email you get is direct to her not admin/management/concierge etc. It seems that she gets all this material created by other far more talented people with much larger followings and is allowed to use it so she can tag her own studio but she actually produces none of it.
Since these people all have much bigger followings than her how is she marketing them? What impact does she have on their following/ I doubt that she alone with her IceStudios.co account boosted both of those accounts to the following they have (with the meager following they have). Is she paying them? If so, she's not a PR agent of any sort, PR agents get paid to do PR they don't pay other people to do PR for them. If they are paying her for PR...why her? What reach does she have? Especially for the demographic that these products seem to be aimed at. Why and how is she involved with these people? For what reason? What is she doing with them or for them? How is she helping? It's just so confusing.
Addressing her image (and Jamie's):
She wants to have this gothic-inked tattoo pinup girl witchy vibes. Jamie went from what he was (fluid, flamboyant, stylish, interesting) to straight-up trash daddy aesthetic and overly masculine vibes. Her studio is primarily for what seems to be African Americans as a demographic and style, with a hip-hop vibe. Why is she all over the place with everything she seems to be doing and the people she's working with? I don't know. Is she trying to screw Jamie over by setting him up to fail? Anything is possible at this point, considering even the way she operates her several IG accounts and websites doesn't make sense. Is there any reasonable explanation to any of this that doesn't make her look like a complete phony or scam artist? As much as I do not wish to ever have to talk to her I wish she'd explain herself because I think all of this needs some explaining at this point.
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About the IceStudios shop:
These Digi Camo Pants are listed for 300 USD but there's an odd problem with this listing.
It says you need to pre-order this item and it's limited-time design. However, it also says that it's sold out so there's no way to pre-order it. Then you should look at this. At that link, you will find Oakley has almost the exact same pants but for half the price. Currently, they are sold out. There is a slight variation in pattern and of course the Oakley logo but they are basically the same thing. Why would anyone go to IceStudios, which no one has ever heard of, and pay double the price for these pants when you can get them from a better place, with better brand recognition, and a more professional website?
This raises a lot of questions:
Do these pants actually exist? Did they really sell out? Why is it still listed as pre-order if you can't order them at all? What's with this pricing? Has anyone actually bought these pants?
Simply put: The way this is set up it could be a marketing tactic. The pants may not exist for sale, or at all. They may have contact with a manufacturer who makes them so they have an image for the website but they never actually offered these pants for sale to begin with. If they are sold out they should either remove the product from the site entirely or offer a link to be contacted so you can be notified when they are on sale again (like Oakley does). This could potentially be a marketing tactic to make it look like she sold out a bunch of pants at this price because they are in such high demand so that when or if she actually does put them in stock people want to buy them because they think they are in demand and they can't have them (or there's a limited time to get them).
We have a similar situation with the hats that are sold for 90 USD that are now currently sold out. The designer listed is "Ice Studios" for that. Not the name of a person. Is Jess designing any of these items or is someone else? If she were designing these items why not use her name instead of the IceStudios name? If you try to contact IceStudios via email you get yet another email address for her [email protected].
The sunglasses are found on multiple websites (much more established and professional than her own) and they were not designed by her they are a collaboration with these other places. Why is she selling products in her own studio that she has nothing to do with designing or anything like that? Just as a collaboration? It's a tactic to get other people to buy it in order to promote her own brand...I suppose?
This website that has them listed for sale doesn't mention IceStudios anywhere. Did she actually collaborate with anyone for this or is that just what it says on her website? Some other websites that sell these sunglasses do mention IceStudios but that one doesn't. Since she claims to be in marketing she may have sold them the idea that because her IG account has so many followers she could help market the sunglasses for them and so they allowed her to collaborate but the collaboration credit does not seem to be consistent across all platforms selling these products. It seems very disingenuous and almost like an MLM.
Whilst I doubt anything she's doing here is illegal or a crime it does fall under some rather shady tactics. Even the official Ice Studios IG account has only around 3K followers, two posts, one was a week ago, and before that was one post over a year ago. None of this existed before the point in which she got with Jamie.
You can see here for yourself both the domains were registered and created after she got with Jamie, after she grew her following, and after all of that happened for her. She did not have any of these things going for her before that point. All of this should make you question her motives entirely because it does seem like these projects, studios, and things are a direct result of her popularity, connections, and networking after getting with Jamie. This seems like such a con in so many ways. At the very least using him to get to where she wants to be with a company she only invented after she got with him. I certainly hope he's not an investor or shelling out for any of this nonsense because there's no way it can be anywhere near profitable.
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