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Italian designer Roberto Cavalli is known to be quite vocal about his personal opinions and in a new interview he hasn’t held anything back. Cavalli has commented that American designer Michael Kors steals most of his ideas, some from Cavalli and even more from other fashion houses. Roberto adds that he often points out this fact via his Instagram account because he hates to see Kors working this way:
“He’s one of the biggest copy designers in the world, I just want to tell him to stop copying me! Stop! All the time I write those comments on Instagram. He copies everybody!”
Cavalli also takes aim at American style in general, stating that “they all dress the same” and for this reason, Cavalli thinks Kors manages to make money from stealing ideas and making them his own:
“Americans like Michael Kors! And you love so many other designers who do that – he’s not American fashion. He is international fashion made in America. It’s not fair. The American women, they all dress the same.”
The designer even says he launched his own diffusion line in a bid to copy his own work because he felt everyone else was plagiarizing his collections already:
“Before I [launched] Just Cavalli, I started to see how many people around me were copying me. There was Cavalli style all over, and I said, ‘Why am I giving so many opportunities to other people? Maybe I should just start to copy myself.’ So I started Just Cavalli to copy myself.”
Allie – I’d watch Fashion Wars! 🙂
They all copy each other, don’t they?
Nothing new, nothing new… there’s nothing new
@Allie – I would TOTALLY watch Fashion Wars!
I totally would too!
At some point all fashion designers are copying. There’s only so much “original” work you can do in fashion.
There is drama everywhere.
I don’t blame him for being irritated either though.
Robert Cavalli doesn’t mess around when it comes to words!
And people copy Michael Kors. It would be frustrating but I assume its the nature of the beast.
Pfft. Cavalli makes clothes for highly paid ladies of the night, Kors does not.
If you watched the documentary “unzipped” it was quite interesting to see that suddenly some other designer had the same idea as Mizrahi. Wow, how fortuitous.
This is nothing new
Really drama.Thanks for this post.
Always drama, they are always so jealous of each other…
Oh the drama!
Who knew there was so much drama in the fashion world?
It’s a new reality series, Fashion Wars