Overview
- Anouska Samms, in Instagram videos posted Monday and Wednesday, said a dress in the Met’s Costume Institute show is based on her 2023 collaboration and asked to be credited and paid £1,000.
- The Met’s label credits only designer Yoav Hadari and lists silk organza, polyester and cotton tweed yarns, and silk thread, with no mention of human hair.
- Hadari says he designed and made the exhibited dress using his own materials and methods and argues Samms’s rights cover only the specific hair textile from their earlier work.
- A 2023 contract between the collaborators states Samms is the sole owner of the intellectual property in the hair-based fabric under a one-year license.
- Emails reported by The Times show curator Andrew Bolton earlier told Samms the original hair dress would be shown with co-credit before Hadari withdrew that piece.