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    Artist Anouska Samms accuses the MET of displaying a counterfeit of her dress design


    Artist Anouska Samms accuses the MET of displaying a counterfeit of her dress design



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    1. GoddessofALL666 on

      The copy is so much worse too.  Like Temu version of hers.  It lost all the texture and character. 

    2. glassey on

      That’s just egregious and insulting. Why wouldn’t they just move forward with acquiring the real deal?! I hope she prevails. 

    3. BestBeBelievin on

      What a piss poor counterfeit of her work, to boot.

      I’m glad she spoke out, and I’m looking forward to hearing more of her story.

    4. SnooGuavas4919 on

      What in the world?? That is diabolical. So they stole her idea and then paid someone to do a worse version? Literally why…

    8. ambercrayon on

      Wowwww and the copy is uglier (it’s a really cool design) how in the world did he have the audacity

    10. technicolorbutt on

      Wow wow wow I will be following this story. Good luck to Anouska I’m glad they have receipts but it’s still so stressful.

    12. meowiful on

      That’s so fucking wild. And blatant. I mean, I guess what do we expect outta the Bezos Gala? But it’s honestly so high profile, it’s shocking to me. He’s gonna fuck The Met’s reputation, in general. And Vogue’s. And I’m honestly so sad.

    15. jkraige on

      Even to my untrained and unsophisticated eye, it’s clear which is the cheap imitation, which is really saying something

    16. AcanthianVampire on

      this is so common in fashion – as someone who made several garments for a certain unnamed singer, which her stylist was more than happy to take credit for – I would love a reckoning for the upper echelons who stand on the talents of actual artists who receive neither credit nor adequate pay for their work.

      HACKS run the world and it’s disgusting

    17. g00fyg00ber741 on

      >[More than 1000 artifacts in Metropolitan Museum of Art catalog linked to alleged looting and trafficking figures](https://www.icij.org/investigations/hidden-treasures/more-than-1000-artifacts-in-metropolitan-museum-of-art-catalog-linked-to-alleged-looting-and-trafficking-figures/)

      >Reporters pinpointed the pieces, from India to Italy to Egypt, in North America’s largest museum. What do the findings mean for the Met’s future – and the future of all museums?

      I find it interesting so many have been defending the MET so hard anyway recently with the whole MET Gala controversy, cause while I love museums *in theory*, and there’s definitely art worth celebrating at museums, we know that plenty of museums including the MET have tons of stolen pieces, especially cultural pieces.

      >[America’s institutions hold human remains and sacred items taken from the graves of tens of thousands of Native Americans. A federal law, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, was meant to help return them, but decades after its 1990 passage, many tribes are still waiting.](https://www.propublica.org/article/the-met-museum-native-american-collections)

    19. IndicationSlow9252 on

      Wow. Time to put the “collaborator” on blast. FUCK YOAV HADARI

    20. mama_meta on

      Not the met stealing from white people too now!

      ![gif](giphy|DyvyiFFXF1Yli)

      No but fr, this is fucked up & I hope she gets her work removed & sues the hell outta everyone involved in this theft.

    22. Domestic_Fox on

      The look like they literally just pinned hair to it. The original looks actually woven.

      Theirs is Ali express bad