Mon 23 Apr 2007
Fashion designer John Galliano’s company was ordered to pay 200,000 euros ($271,800) in damages to renowned U.S. photographer William Klein for unauthorized use of his atmospheric imagery in an advertising campaign.
The photographer, who lives in France said he was “furious” at Galliano’s use of some of his half-painted photographs of street scenes in advertisements in several fashion magazines. Klein’s giant versions of contact sheets showing a series of photographs, painted over in colored enamel to highlight particular images, were a popular feature of a recent exhibition at the Pompidou Centre in Paris.