COPY MACHINE: Vivienne Westwood who has a long history of stealing smaller designers creations is herself under pressure. Appropriation may be in vogue, but Vivienne Westwood has possibly taken it a step too far having based one of the T-shirts in its fall 2018 collection on creations by young designers, Louise Gray and Rottingdean Bazaar. The London-based house, which in 2012 took a young Manchester based designer to court for trademark and copyright infringement for allegedly copying some of Westwood’s famous punk-inspired orb logos and rebellious slogans, including “Let It Rock” and “Too Fast To Live, Too Young To Die,” on garments, posted the following apology on its Instagram page afte
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