There’s no question that Zuhair Murad knows his way around a red carpet gown. So we weren’t surprised to see his designs show up several times last night at the Billboards Music Awards. What is surprising? One of them gave us major deja vu.
The Kardashian kamp has landed in legal hot water again–this time with New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, of all people.
Humor Chic is a blog that has been sending up the fashion industry for years–and now, it’s calling out carbon copy designs.
Like the rolled fold-over paper bag-esque bags we wrote about earlier this week, the nail bracelet was inspired by an everyday household object. No one designer can claim to have invented the nail, but whose idea was it to make one into a chic bracelet?
It definitely isn’t just a coincidence, and is actually pretty interesting, that Céline, See by Chloé and Zara all have nude-colored, rectangular leather fold-over clutches out right now.
Tory Burch may have put her lawsuit with ex Chris Burch behind her, but that doesn’t mean the new billionaire isn’t still having issues protecting her intellectual property.
Yoko Ono’s menswear collection for Opening Ceremony was… a lot of things. Wacky? Sure. Difficult to pull off? Definitely. But, unoriginal? That seemed unlikely.
However, Brooklyn-based designer Haleh Nematzadeh thought Ono’s designs looked a little too familiar. She’s gone so far as to file a lawsuit against Ono this past Friday, claiming the 80-year-old artist conspired with Opening Ceremony to steal her designs.
When Phoebe Philo sent a grey trapeze coat with knotted sleeves down Céline’s fall 2013 runway, the fashion industry swooned. But, for some, the coat was worth paying attention to for all the wrong reasons.
The CFDA and eBay are taking on design piracy again with their third You Can’t Fake Fashion campaign. They’ve tapped a whopping 90 American designers including Diane von Furstenberg, Ralph Lauren, Band of Outsiders, Prabal Gurung and more to each design a one-of-a-kind tote bag to go up for auction on eBay to benefit the CFDA’s anti-counterfeiting efforts.
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We already know Riccardo Tisci finds inspiration in streetwear culture–after all, it’s thanks to him (and maybe Kanye West) that Givenchy became a hit on the scene. But maybe Tisci got a little too inspired this season.
Yesterday’s most buzzed about shows were easily Alexander Wang and Altuzarra. In addition to showing on the same day and being generally hot young designers, Wang and Altuzarra had something else in common: they both featured huge fur mittens in their fall collections.
However, as is often the case, Balenciaga did it first.
We recently received a tip from a sharp-eyed reader who stumbled upon Miu Miu’s Spring 2013 eyewear campaign and thought the shades featured looked familiar–a little too familiar.
