Zara steals from the streets
Fashion designers at big fashion chain Zara steal their so-called 'ideas' directly from the streets. Probably one day a designer lacked fantasy and started surfing the web looking for 'cool' graffiti...then found this picture of a wall in Italy made by some well known streetartists, the so-called fashion designer made a fast copy-paste move and put the image of the wall directly on a Zara t-shirt. Of course without informing the streetartists who created the original images on the wall. With some little effort or real interest, the artists would be rather easy to reach for the laywers of Zara but they never even tried.
On this wall you can see work of Santy, the stencil of the bambino is from Plank, the skull is made by Ozmo (http://www.ozmo.it/) and the parrot on top is made by Mores. Zara took the message of the Mores parrot a bit to literal. Parrot says: Copy Crew!
For more stolen goods from the street and bigger pictures:
http://www.fatbombers.com/?p=336
August 10th, 2007 - 01:18
graffiti is public domain, pure and simple. The shirt company is engaging in postmodern discourse without fear of the rabid copyright hounds. If you want to keep your artwork ownership private, show it in a gallery, or print it in a book.
August 29th, 2007 - 04:17
no stealing here
August 29th, 2007 - 04:21
the graffiti is a starting point to a creation they made. Stealing is to copy and resell the exactly same thing and claim it yours.
if you use a picasso in a shirt, youre not stealing picasso, you are importing, inputing, re-reading, recycling, redesigning, reassembleing, whatever.
same thing for the street art here, doesnt matter if the authors are not famous picassos.
September 2nd, 2007 - 21:41
come on, how can you keep posting these rip offs of street ‘art’ and graffiti – these idiots are damaging private property, nothing is sacred to them
September 15th, 2007 - 02:08
BB- i think you wanna go and have a think about which the government sees as worse.
Copyright violation
Stealing
intention to distrbute stolen goods
“vandalism”
me? i think they go in about that order.
October 31st, 2007 - 14:11
*photoshop*
January 11th, 2008 - 06:40
this is not stealing.
this is art. perhaps not high art by any means. but someone created that. they didn’t steal anyones designs. they took a photo of a street scape and put it on a shirt. jesus you guys are hopeless.
February 18th, 2008 - 23:06
LOL, seriously?
This isn’t stealing! Yes, graffiti is art… but seriously.
A) Zara probably hires tons of people to brainstorm ideas for graphic tees. Some low-on-the-totem-pole designer saw this and thought it would nice on a t-shirt.
B) I doubt that said designer knew who he/she was ripping off (it’s not like there’s a name, phone number and address listed under each tag). And further more, I doubt that the designer thought that he/she was hurting anyone or breaking any laws by making this shirt.
C) If I was the one who tagged that building, I’d feel pretty damn flattered after seeing that someone put my work on a shirt. Then I’d probably get focused and start making my own t-shirts.
May 10th, 2008 - 10:33
It´s true that Zara steals(a lot), but the easiest way to copy is to buy(or take photos) of clothes from other labels/designers and send the designs to afactory that makes a slightly changed design out of it. I know the because I have worked for this company and I saw it happen EVERY day. It´s a crying shame that this copying can continue and that the customers don´t care.
I know for example that there was plans to make t-shirts inspired by Banksy. I didn´t turn out half as intresting and I don´t know if it ever went to production, but I´m sure it would have sold thousands and thousands of shirts.
November 17th, 2008 - 20:15
Don Incognito; the customers don’t know. I’ve shopped at Zara (don’t know if I will again) and I don’t look at clothes and think “Mmm, I wonder if this is stolen.”
September 19th, 2009 - 19:56
I think the picture of the shirt is fake.
May 7th, 2010 - 19:52
ZARA does steal! A few artist, that don’t post their things in the streets have been rubbed off their arts and used by ZARA in their clothing collections.
Many of the artist are users of the online art community deviantART! What you post happened in 2009… Well, now is 2010… and it still happens!!!
May 10th, 2010 - 22:41
Dee is right!
They even steal young artists Work!
May 26th, 2010 - 21:55
http://www.leblogdebetty.com/2010/05/22/zara-we-have-a-problem/
same kind of behaviour from Zara….