The Spanish artist Yago Hortal, who in 2014 sued the designer fashion label Preen by Thornton Bregazzi for copyright infringement, has reached an out-of-court settlement with the firm. The artist found examples of clothes, worn by celebrities including Nigella Lawson, that incorporated images that he claimed extensively copied substantial parts from his abstract paintings, made between 2009 and 2011. In a statement, Thornton Bregazzi expressed “regret” that it had “unwittingly included intellectual property belonging to the artist in a limited number of pieces”. The label “places enormous value on the importance of protecting artistic creativity and so is pleased to be able to acknowledge Mr Hortal’s work in this [Resort] Collection”. “All our efforts were worthwhile,” Hortal says.
