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Fashion AI: Cutting through the fabric of falsity

Spanish fast fashion giant Mango released its new ‘Mango Teen’ advertising campaign last month to much fanfare. At first glance, the advert – featuring a model wearing a colourful cropped top, posed against a desert backdrop – is similar to a plethora of other summer campaigns aimed at teenage girls. But upon closer scrutiny, something else...

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Fast fashion face off: Shein hit with lawsuit from competitor Oh Polly

Shein is, once again, facing legal troubles. This time, the Chinese fast fashion giant has been confronted with a lawsuit from a direct competitor, UK-based brand Oh Polly. The complaint, which was filed with England’s High Court, was registered on the Intellectual Property list and was issued by both Oh Polly and its sister brand Bo&Tee. This...

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Independent designers accuse Shein of extortion and intellectual property infringement

Chinese fast fashion giant Shein has been accused of "large-scale and systematic theft of the intellectual property of major and minor American designers" and of committing infringement-related extortion, The Fashion Law wrote. Independent designers, Krista Perry, Larissa Martinez and Jay Baron claimed Shein is responsible for violating...

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Amiri sues Zara

American brand Amiri is suing Zara for allegedly copying its Amiri MX2 jeans the former selling them under the name Combination Skinny Biker Jeans. Amiri filed its complaint in federal court in Los Angeles demanding 3 million dollars in compensation from Zara's parent company Inditex. The lawsuit Amiri filed claims that details of the jeans,...

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Off-White in trademark infringement dispute, again

Last April U.S. fashion label Off-White by Virgil Abloh filed a trademark infringement complaint against jewellery brand Rastaclat for using quotation marks around words and that its bracelet "was infringing several Off-White trademarks." According to the World Intellectual Property Review (WIPR), Off-White said it has extensively used quotation...

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Is the fashion industry guilty of manipulating cultural heritage for financial gain?

The women embroiderers of the remote Mexican mountain village of Tenango de Doria made worldwide headlines this week when their government went to war with an American designer for "plagiarising" their patterns. Wes Gordon, the artistic director of the New York label founded by Venezuelan designer Carolina Herrera, found himself accused of...

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Memes, Tweets, and Copyrights: Recent U.S. Federal Court Findings on Copyrighted Images

We’ve seen it all—from the Ryan Gosling “Hey Girl” meme on t-shirts to celebrity tweets that are copied and republished on cable news. While such images and messages are easy to cut-and-paste, recent U.S. court decisions make clear that one should exercise caution when using images found online. Stop that Tweet Last month, a federal court in the...

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People Tree's Orijit Sen accuses Dior of plagiarising textile design

London - It is said that 'imitation is the sincerest form of flattery' but in the fashion industry there is a fine line between imitation and flat out copying someone else's design. Accusations of design plagiarism and theft are certainly nothing new in fashion, but Indian designer and graphic artist Orijit Sen, co-founder of sustainable fashion...