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According to Fashionista, Scottish designer Mati Ventrillon claims that certain garments in the latest Chanel collection are replicas of her original designs.
In an interview, Ventrillon said that two members of the Chanel team bought some of her garments a while ago, with the intention of using it for research purposes. Ventrillon said she never expected Chanel to copy her designs.
But among the one hundred garments that took to the runway in Rome last week, Ventrillon found a garment (pictured below) that, according to her, she designed for the Queen’s Jubilee celebration in 2012 as part of the Oxford Street Fashion Flags Campaign:
Since the collection’s debut on the runway at the Rome show, Ventrillon has been trying to set the record straight:
Image source: Facebook post
The Fashion Law reported that although Ventrillon isn’t sure whether she should take legal action, political leader of Shetland Islands Council, Gary Robinson, who is calling Chanel’s actions "shameful copying", has reached out to Karl Lagerfeld on Twitter to engage in the matter. But it looks like Lagerfeld is keeping his distance as there has been no response as of yet.
This isn’t the first time Chanel has come under fire with another lawsuit that ordered the design house to cough up more than 200 000 euros for bracelets that seemed similar to the ones designed by New York designer Pamela Love.
Do big brands have zero respect for lesser known designer? And how arrogant of them to think that no one will notice.
