Street artist Rime alleges that Moschino dress,designed by Jeremy Scott and worn by Perry, ripped off his artworkOne artist is less than impressed with the dress that Katy Perry wore to this year’s Met Ball – and not for sartorial reasons. Brooklyn street artist Rime, or born Joseph Tierney,has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against designer Jeremy Scott and design house Moschino, for making a dress that Tierney believes imitates a signature graffiti tags that he painted on a Detroit building.
In documents filed on 5 August in a federal California court, and Tierney’s lawyers allege that by creating the dress and having it widely photographed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute annual fundraising event,Scott and Moschino used Tierney’s designs without licensing them.
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Source: theguardian.com