Fashion design or fashion copycat? You decide.

For me, the process of design is the invention and evolution of a concept applied to a physical object.

I like fashion, so am always interested and keep abreast of the couture collections.  I do feel rather sorry for fashion designers these days.  It must be so hard to come up with something trendsetting all the time.  If they didn't, we wouldn't need to buy new clothes and they would be out of a job.

It seems that some designers just reproduce, curate or tweak past designs.  Frida Giannini, the creative director of Gucci is notorious for utilizing the fashion house's archives as a source rather than an inspiration.  For this season's silk scarves, she reprinted the same scarf designs that were first designed in 1966.  



She does get maligned for just reproducing rather than designing her own trademark like Tom Ford did - so much so that her notoriety caused people to wonder how she got away with simply recycling old designs and everyone wondered who she must be sleeping with.

Via zimbio.com

Turns out -  it was her boss, CEO of Gucci, Patrizio di Marco but LVMH is a family company. They followed the example and now have a family of their own as she gave birth last month...