Fashion's Reverse Take on Counterfeiting!
For a long time, luxury brands looked with a certain contempt on street culture, which practiced notably the bootleg [the mixture of the authentic and the fake, and more generally the piracy], but it is today the most consumed culture on social networks.
#NOFREEPHOTOS Fashion Photographers Take A Stand For Their Rights
In Milan, this past weekend according to WWD, about 40 photographers have come together publicly to protest against the unauthorised use of their street style photography.Members of the group, which calls itself an "unofficial union" named "The Photographers," have begun adding the agreed hashtag #NoFreePhotos to images uploaded on their Instagram accounts to take a stand against the commercial use being made of their photos.
British Model Adwoa Aboah Subject Of Brewing Modelling Agencies' Legal Battle
In a lawsuit filed (this month) in Manhattan Supreme Court, The Lions claims that Aboah recently asked to be released early from her three-year contract after being recruited by DNA Model Management, cofounder David Bonnouvrier.
Are Counterfeits Good For Fashion?
In an insightful article, our friends over at Highsnobiety weighed in on the whether "counterfeits are good for fashion?" Among other points, the author makes the argument that: "what legitimate manufacturers often refuse to acknowledge is that counterfeiting actually provides them with free advertising...not only that, but it’s free advertising via peer endorsement, which, [the author argues] is far more effective than a piece of advertorial or a pop-up ad because it slips by our resistance to marketing."
