A Jeremy Scott Moschino without controversy isn’t really a Jeremy Scott Moschino collection
It’s Milan Fashion week – which means another Controversy surrounding Jeremy Scott‘s newest Moschino collection. After Moschino’s latest showcase, an unknown student designer, Dorothy R.S Williams, took to instagram to accuse Scott of plagiarising her designs from her University’s fashion week show back in June.
The recent fashion graduate shared side by side photos, comparing her collection from June to Scott’s newest collection that just debuted. She describes her heartbreak and disappointment in a lengthy caption; stating that ‘at first she was sceptical, thinking maybe its most a coincidence, but then she realised just how similar the details wear’.
She then goes on to bring up the accused designer’s previous accusations of plagiarism – mentioning the conversely he had at last year’s NYFW – when young London-based designer, Edda Gimnes claimed that Scott had copied her work without her permission – which was only made worse by the fact that about in 2017 she actually met someone from Moschino and showed them her designs, which makes Scott look even guilty of plagiarism.
photo credits: edsgrimmez, Moschino
However, regarding Gimnes’s accusation, Scott quickly responded, and denied he copied Gimnes’s work by sharing a series of different looks from previous Moschino’s collections via his Instagram stories.
He has yet to make to a comment on this recent controversy with Dorothy R.S Williams.
A LITTLE HISTORY OF JEREMY SCOTT’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL MOMENTS SO FAR
2012: Shackle Snecker
image credits: Jeremy Scott / Adidas
Scott collaborated with Adidas and caused a racial outcry within the media. The Jeremy Scott x adidas collaboration shared their photos of the shoe – a revamped version of the Adidas roundhouse ‘silhouette, with a yellow plastic chain and cuff attachment on the heel, which many people viewed as an allusion to slavery. Due to the huge negative backlash, the collaboration was pulled from release.
2013: Santa Cruz Skateboards Plagiarism
photo credits: Jeremy Scott / Santa Cruz Skateboards
Scott’s fall /winter 2013 collection included cartoon visuals that looked identical to artwork originally designed by artist Jim Phillips for Santa Cruz Skateboards during the ’80s and ’90s – and Scott was blatantly accused of ripping off Phillips’ artwork without permission. The collection sparked a outrage within the skateboard community and the fashion world, and NHS, inc. – the owners of the Californian skate company – threatened legal action against Scott, the designer had no choice but to cease the production and distribution of the plagiarised items.
2013: ”Totem Pole Print” Collection
photo credits: Jeremy Scott / Adidas Originals
The designer again collaborated with Adidas ( Adidas Originals) for his spring/summer 2013 collection. The line featured a series of tracksuits, shoes and dresses donning vibrant, cartoon-like renderings of Pacific Northwest Native American carvings, and was criticized for devaluing the deep-rooted symbology behind the original artwork. People accused him of parroting the Native American community, calling him ignorant and disrespectful. The collaboration was pulled from the American fashion market.
2014: The Mcdonalds collection
photo credits: Moschino
This was Scott’s first collection as creative designer of Moschino, and for his debut runway collection, he decided to draw inspiration for Mcdonalds. However, as a compassion between fast food and fast fashion was being made, and minimum wage workers failed to find the humour in the irony, and accused Scott of mocking the fast food chains employees.
2016: Graffiti plagiarism
image credits: Rex
Moschino’s autumn/winter 2015 collection featured graffiti artwork on its garments – which New York based artist Joseph Tierney, claimed that his artwork was “inexplicably” placed on garments that appeared in Moschino’s collection “without his knowledge or consent”. Tierney further notes that Moschino and Scott even included his “fake signature” on the clothing, confirming that the design was in fact lifted from one his painted murals in New York. Tierney took legal action against Scott and Moschino for copyright infringement over that claims Scott unlawfully used his work on Moschino garments.
2018: ‘iIlegal Aliens’ campaign
image credits: Steven Meisel / Moschino
The designer shared his fall 2018 adverting campaign on instagram – photos included Kaia Gerber and Gigi Hadid with their skin painted blue and red, respectively. The caption with the post? ‘ “The only thing illegal about this alien is how good she looks!” – yeah, people were not happy, accusing the wording to reference “illegal aliens” entering in the U.S. and Scott of bad taste given the political moment and thought the caption was insensitive given the current immigration crisis in America. However, Scott defended his comment with another Instagram caption stating : WHAT IS AN “ALIEN?” THE CONCEPT OF MY AD CAMPAIGN IS TO BRING ATTENTION TO THE US ADMINISTRATION’S HARSH STANCE TOWARDS ‘ILLEGAL ALIENS.’; “I PAINTED THE MODELS IN MY SHOW AND THIS CAMPAIGN AS A WAY TO OPEN A DISCUSSION ON WHAT EXACTLY AN ‘ALIEN’ IS – ARE THEY ORANGE BLUE YELLOW GREEN? DOES THIS MATTER? And ‘ THEY ARE OUR FRIENDS, NEIGHBORS, CO WORKERS, RELATIVES AND PEOPLE WE LOVE.”
so yeah, Dorothy R.S William is definitely not the first person to be pretty pissed at Jeremy Scott.
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