If a small designer finds themselves on the other side of the coin, and looking to sue a large corporation, again, who stands a better chance with the outcome, those with a team of copyright attorneys or the indie label?

I think some protective regulation is necessary to protect smaller designers- but it needs to be much more defined than this act, and not some "database" that each designer must exhaustively clear before producing a piece of clothing. Perhaps it's best to start it out regulating the designs of the most pirated items- handbags- and see where it goes from there.

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Basically, these designers are not standing at their forms with a photo of something they plan on copying. Unless they are, in fact, copying it.

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Her response? She settled out of court, publicly apologized and removed the offending garment from the collection and from stores (which all leads me to believe someone on her design team was the actual offender).

She was wrong to steal in the first place, but at least she owned up to her own hypocrisy and made amends.

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I would put the jacket in the latter category. I would put the "fake" motorcycle bag (which, I....owned) in the former category because it's an exact copy.

From what I have seen of the Forever 21 pieces, some are total knock-offs, but most I am okay with.

Fashion is art, and any artist will be inspired by countless things.

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The second one... well that's basically a copy with different colors.

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