Zara Stealing Ideas.. Hmm what a suprise..

Zara’s reputation for appropriating illegal street art for its own profit is as notorious as the graffiti tags the retail chain turns into mass produced T-shirts. The latest victim, Patrick Waldo, is a New York-based street artist claiming that Zara copied, and then printed his iconic art onto a new batch of $16.90 T-shirts. Mr Waldo spent over a year writing his signature tag ‘mustache’ on glamorous New York City subway ads until he was arrested in 2011, but when he saw a Zara T-shirt featuring a skull augmented with a similar mustache, he says he quickly recognized his work.

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