The Spanish clothing and accessories retailer, Zara comes under fire for copying an Indie artist’s designs. The artist, Tuesday Bassen, whose portfolio includes works for brands such as Playboy, The New Yorker, United Nations, Nike, and Adidas, among others, took to her Instagram and shared the post below:
“Over the past year, Zara has been copying my artwork,” Bassen writes. “…I had my lawyer contact Zara and they literally said I have no base because I’m an indie artist and they’re a major corporation and that not enough people even know about me for it to matter.” Alongside the post Bassen shared a screen grab of a letter that was allegedly sent to her by Zara’s legal team, which reads:
This is far from the first time Zara has been accused of infringing on the artwork or intellectual property of an independent artist. The kind of artist, Bassen points out both in her Instagram caption and in an interview with The Fashion Law, who can bankrupt themselves merely hiring a lawyer to pen their cease & desist.
The copying at hand does not just stem from Bassen’s work, a dozen or so other indie artists have been targeted by the Spanish fast fashion giant, as indicated in the chart below.
