The copying of fashion design originals
The copying of fashion design originals – “knocking off” or “affordable interpretation”, depending on your point of view – is a practice that designers may have grudgingly accepted in the past, when less expensive copies took some time to reach stores and only those consumers who could afford the designer-label originals could be the first to follow a trend.
This practice is now costing designers dearly as more advanced technology makes it possible to see high-quality copies appear in stores before the original has even hit the market. While it has long been the practice of the American fashion industry to knock off European designs, American designers traditionally did not copy one another.
This article I’ve found on LEDA at Harvard Law School is an article that I recommend you to read in order to be informed on the copyright protection to works of fashion.
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