American rapper Pharrell Williams is facing backlash for promoting plagiarism. The hit song maker raked up a controversy when he attended Nigo’s Kenzo show in Paris, wearing a pair of custom-designed sunglasses by Tiffany & Co. The star got immediately called out by Diet Prada, an Instagram account which is a popular fashion watchdog group, for wearing glasses whose design has been allegedly lifted from a pair of antique Mughal glasses kept for auction by Sotheby's, one of world's most popular auctioneers, dealing in antiques from across the world.
After Tiffany posted an image of the Chanel ambassador in the “custom-designed” sunglasses, netizens from the fine jewelry community immediately called out the likeness to a set of extraordinarily rare Mughal spectacles. “‘Custom-designed’ or custom-copied??,” one person commented. “I think @tiffanyandco made a mistake in not referencing the pair so many of us saw last year,” wrote Annabel Davidson, a jewellery expert and Vogue contributor.
