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Fashion Labels and Inuit Designs: When Law is Not Enough

Fashion Labels and Inuit Designs: When Law is Not Enough

A recent incident involving replication of an Inuit design by a UK fashion label raises interesting questions regarding whether businesses should be required to go beyond the scope of law and consider what is ethical within the culture being borrowed from. Salome Awa, an Inuit woman, was outraged to discover a sweater made by fashion […]