Christian Dior settles plagiarism dispute with People Tree's Orijit Sen

An out-of-court settlement with Christian Dior after a plagiarism row has vindicated a niche Indian retailer and fuelled its creative dreams

Over nearly three decades, People Tree carved a niche for itself among a liberal section, in Delhi first and then Goa, with its funky T-shirts and stationery laced with tongue-in-cheek jabs at large corporations and the government. Now, it has emerged victorious at the end of a David and Goliath battle after it accused French fashion house Christian Dior of plagiarising one of its block prints. With the row having turned into a cause célèbre on social media, graphic designer and People Tree co-founder Orijit Sen took to Facebook this week to announce that it had reached an out-of-court settlement