(Case study post taken from Dailydot.com)

It's no big secret, urban outfitters is one of the many retail chains that frequently plagiarises the work of other artists - although recently news of them doing so seems to be cropping up a lot more often, not that it seems to have slowed them down at all as shown by this report. 

James Soares is the artist and designer behind Spires, and as he has such a variety of designs cannot keep a constant eye open on social media and the going ons around his art work. However, when someone shared on May 8th, 2014 the link to this skirt in urban outfitters, it was a comment that did not slip through the net and he decided to check it out. He immediately recognised the design as his own tryypyzoyd, as no other attempt than to rotate it 180 degrees had been made to alter it.

Once notified of this, urban outfitters immediately changed the design to 'sold out', and while they were not directly responsible for this rip off (the designers who stole the work were Bambam cloth), with something like this happening as frequently as it does with urban outfitters, you would think they would keep a closer eye on where their designs are coming from. 

Read the article here: http://www.dailydot.com/business/urban-outfitters-steal-artists-work/