Speaking as some one who was on one of those design teams for fashions brands like this, the pays isn’t great, you’re working horribly long hours, with crazy short deadlines for a humongous amount of work. Thus crap like this happening. That being said this example is especially egregious.

This floors me. I worked in mass produced apparel cad departments (the peeps that make the art) for years. I cannot tell you how many pieces of others art I was asked personally to rip off or saw ripped off. The instructions were always “we want you to be inspired by this but not do it literally”. It was something as…