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What Would Fashion Week Be Without Fashion Monopolists?

Maybe more innovative and with less work for the lawyers.

The Council of Fashion Designers of America is still lobbying Congress to extend the copyright monopoly to the fashion industry, as this story details .

I wonder who Anna Sui (she is quoted in the article) was copying when she was a young designer just starting out.


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