As the owner of the Bonnie Cashin Archives, Stephanie Lake decided long ago that she wasn’t going to be “policing” copycats. That decision was made despite years of being “sad, frustrated and angered” from seeing Cashin’s work knocked off every season and not being credited.
But after seeing a blog post of a side-by-side comparison of an orange poncho with four zippers from the Calvin Klein spring 2018 collection by Raf Simons next to a 1976 one by Cashin, Lake took action.For information about joining, leaving and suspending mail (eg during a holiday) see the list website at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=archives-nra