NYT's Review of Fashion Includes Knockoffs

Defying Knockoffs and Inviting Them


The article details how Alber Elbaz of Lanvin acknowledges that his work gets copied and how he deals with it:

“I don’t care if people copy me — well, I do care,” Mr. Elbaz said. “For me, I create prototypes. They can copy yesterday but they can’t copy tomorrow.”