'Glitter And Greed: The Lisa Frank Story' paints a dark portrait of the beloved brand.
, party favors, stickers, beach towels, and all manner of rainbow-splashed products. The company, which at one point brought in an estimated $66 million, was immediately recognizable for its bright pops of color and cuddly, big-eyed animal characters, with fantastical illustrations featuring dolphins, unicorns, puppies, and kittens.
After the ‘80s sticker collecting trend wore down, Lisa Frank, Inc. began to place a focus on the back-to-school market, placing their characters and designs on folders, trapper keepers, pens, pencils, and stationery. By the 1990s, Lisa Frank, Inc. landed deals with big box retailers like WalMart and Target.
Green continued to deny having a temper in the workplace. Responding to an allegation that he once flipped the critique table, where designers would put their work for review, he said:"I hope to god I did" flip the table."Probably because there was a bunch of horsesh-t on it." Rowlette was also known for how many people she fired over the years, a number she estimates to be in the hundreds. One former employee alleged to filmmakers that he’d been fired from LFI because he was a diabetic, and therefore couldn’t stay late at the office because he needed to stick to a specific eating schedule. Rowlette responded to the allegation, telling filmmakers that she didn’t remember that firing."That's illegal. We didn't do anything illegal that I knew of.
Later that year, Frank filed for divorce from Green and fired him from the company. During the divorce, Frank allegedly urged company employees to pick a side, leading workers to fret over the status of their jobs if they chose wrong. “She turned everybody against me,” Green told filmmakers, which Frank denied in a lawsuit against Green.
Hunter also backed up Green’s claim that he was the creative director and primary artist on everything Lisa Frank, Inc."I love my dad more than I love myself. I would take a bullet for my dad. I don't talk to my mom... There is no Lisa Frank without James Green."Employees describe LFI as “directionless” following Green’s removal, with Frank heavily criticizing designs she’d claimed to like only days prior. The company laid off numerous workers and failed to replace them.
Initially, everything seemed great between the two brands. Frank herself joined Romano and Georgotas at Kickstarter’s headquarters. However, Romano said “the tone changed” as soon as she started showing Frank some decorative ideas for a leopard-print makeup brush. From then on, Frank allegedly demanded that she only be in touch with Georgotas.
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