Zara Called Out for Copycat Designs

Adaptations, also known as blatant knockoffs, have always been a part of fashion, but they used to occur at a more civilized pace. Coco Chanel was famously relaxed about the issue; despite banding with Madeleine Vionnet to sue one particularly shameless copyist in the 1930s, when Paris was the undisputed center of the industry, she later authorized American dressmakers like David Kidd of Jablow to clone her signature nubby tweed suits for the common folk.