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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Shanti Das

‘They took my world’: fashion giant Shein accused of art theft

Artist Vanessa Bowman in her Dorset studio
The artist Vanessa Bowman, who was baffled when she received an email from a fan in Canada asking if she was collaborating with Shein. Photograph: Karen Robinson/The Observer

Vanessa Bowman paints the world around her: the 19th-century village church, her back garden, the leaves on the trees in the fields where she walks her dog.

Once she has chosen a scene from her rural Dorset idyll, she puts brush to canvas, sometimes poring over the details for days in her studio.

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