Industry David slays Goliath Chanel case

  A French appeals court on Friday fined € 200,000 Chanel damages for stealing a design from a local supplier network, reversing a decision of the 2009 Compensation couture house.

The case against World Tricot, a now bankrupt company, the small premium knitwear made from Chanel and was seen as a test dominated enjoyed the rights of artisans who work hard in a luxury industry from major players.

World Tricot founder Carmel Colle seeking € 2.5 million ($ 3.7 million) for alleged infringement of Chanel discovered after she was in a showcase Chanel jacket with a hook design as she was.

Single-cable design with black border had already been submitted to the Chanel studio and rejected claims Colle.

In 2009, the Commercial Court of Paris ruled, Chanel had not stolen the design, even if it is to pay € 400,000 compensation World Tricot, ordered to break the contract.

Friday the decision stated that "shows a visual comparison of the original and the Chanel coat hooks that the jacket is a slavish copy".

Kleber was in tears. Pascal and his attorney Crehange said that the judgment was "the recognition of the creativity of those who work in the shadows."

Chanel has the damage immediately with the words, started to limit that because of a misunderstanding, and stressed that it was the first case of its kind against the fashion house.

A former social worker Colle founded his company with the help of foundations that recruit the project for unemployed women to an economically depressed area east of France have supported.

Soon she found herself in business with these big names in haute couture as Christian Dior, Christian Lacroix and Givenchy, providing high-quality workmanship.

The contract with Chanel, however, was a moment of Colle and the fashion house has its main customers.

After they discovered the structure of a Chanel boutique in Tokyo in 2005, she accused the fashion house directly.

Chanel began shortly after drastically reduces the order of World Tricot and finally broke with the economy as a whole. World Tricot is currently in liquidation.