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Fashion designer John Galliano’s company was ordered to pay 200,000 euros ($365,958) in damages to renowned US photographer William Klein for plagiarising his technique to create advertisements for his own label, in ads for the fashion house in Britain, France and Russia. The Galliano campaign was splashed across French and international fashion magazines last month. A Paris court heard it featured black and white photographs displayed like a contact sheet, with two glossy dotted lines on the top and the bottom, closely resembling a technique that Mr Klein has made his own and which he has been developing for more than 15 years.
In his March 28 decision, Judge Claude Vallet said Galliano’s advertisements too closely resembled Klein’s hallmark “painted contacts” - oversized painted contact sheets streaked with stokes of vivid color. Read more of Fashion Designer Galliano Accused of Plagiarism