{"id":1922,"date":"2013-03-14T22:33:40","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T03:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/so-sew-easy.com\/?p=1922"},"modified":"2015-03-09T11:14:39","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T16:14:39","slug":"is-all-fashion-just-copying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/so-sew-easy.com\/is-all-fashion-just-copying\/","title":{"rendered":"Is all fashion just copying?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I watched this very interesting video &#8211; a presentation by\u00a0Johanna Blakley: Lessons from fashion's free culture. \u00a0In it is discussed the lack of copyright on fashion and apparel and how trends are just everyone copying from one another at the same time until everything looks like a\u00a0variation\u00a0on the same theme. \u00a0(She puts it much better.) \u00a0For example, peplums coming &#8216;back into fashion'. \u00a0Black and white seems to be predicted as popular for this year.<\/p>\n<p>Also\u00a0discussed\u00a0is the\u00a0collaboration\u00a0between fashion\u00a0designers\u00a0and large retail stores to bring those expensive fashions into the reach of us regular folks. \u00a0And how they realise that having their designs\u00a0copied\u00a0makes little to no impact on their sales because the customers who buy the copies could NEVER afford to buy the originals anyway.<\/p>\n<p>She shares her perspective on how the lack of copyright protection means that designers are forever striving to create and\u00a0achieve\u00a0greater things, a unique product, or a style which can be immediately\u00a0recognized\u00a0as their own.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"http:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/johanna_blakley_lessons_from_fashion_s_free_culture.html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This was an interesting subject for me because I had recently been considering signing up for the new Craftsy course &#8211; <a title=\"Pattern drafting from ready to wear\" href=\"https:\/\/so-sew-easy.com\/rtw\" target=\"_blank\">Pattern Drafting from Ready to Wear<\/a>. \u00a0I have some favorite clothes, we all do, where they have been worn to death but fit just so, and are so right and comfy that we cannot bear to part with them. \u00a0So the Pattern Drafting from Ready to Wear seems like the ideal way to copy your favorites and improve upon them, add variations etc. \u00a0And at least I know I won't get into any trouble if I copy something !<\/p>\n<p>But what if I copied something I owned, and then offered the pattern to readers to sew? \u00a0I guess that would be OK too &#8211; especially if I included my own variation. \u00a0Strange to think of it being so easy. \u00a0So why do we all buy commercial patterns &#8211; can someone just copy a pattern and sell it themselves &#8211; or is that taking the subject too far?<\/p>\n<p>However I am getting ahead of myself. \u00a0Before I even think about this pattern drafting course, I already need to finish &#8211;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 16px;\"><a title=\"Sewing with knits\" href=\"https:\/\/so-sew-easy.com\/knits\" target=\"_blank\">Sewing with knits<\/a> &#8211; half way through<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Pants fitting techniques\" href=\"https:\/\/so-sew-easy.com\/fitpants\" target=\"_blank\">Pants Fitting Techniques<\/a> &#8211; still looking for the right fabric and still unsure if I need to make more fitting adjustments after my\u00a0<a title=\"Pant Fitting Techniques \u2013 Part 3\" href=\"https:\/\/so-sew-easy.com\/pant-fitting-techniques-part-3\/\" target=\"_blank\">third\u00a0muslin<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Sew a Couture Dress &#8211; just signed up and not started to watch yet.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What do you think &#8211; are you happy to buy a designer knock off?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched this very interesting video &#8211; a presentation by\u00a0Johanna Blakley: Lessons from fashion&#8217;s free culture. \u00a0In it is discussed the lack of copyright on fashion and apparel and how trends are just everyone copying from one another at the same time until everything looks like a\u00a0variation\u00a0on the same theme. \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/so-sew-easy.com\/is-all-fashion-just-copying\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wds_primary_category":0},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/so-sew-easy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/so-sew-easy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/so-sew-easy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/so-sew-easy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/so-sew-easy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/so-sew-easy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/so-sew-easy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/so-sew-easy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/so-sew-easy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}