Moleskine plagiarism?
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I gotta take issue with the inclusion of the Moleskine knockoff, though.
The original Moleskine notebook is said to have been used by legendary artists and writers such as Matisse, Picasso, and Hemingway. The plagiarist had no qualms in saying their notebooks were, too.
"Don't forget you can copy the romance behind a product," says Christine Lacroix, the museum's curator.
While it is rue that the Moleskine "is said" to have been used by Matisse and Picasso, there's no evidence that they did. Furthermore, today's Moleskine is not a direct descendant of the original moleskin-type notebooks. According to Wikipedia:
Moleskine's most famous endorsement comes from Bruce Chatwin, who used similar notebooks constantly throughout his travels, and wrote about them glowingly. Chatwin's original source of notebooks dried up in 1986, when his Paris stationer informed him that the last moleskine manufacturer, a small family-run firm of Tours, had discontinued production in 1986 after the death of the owner. The modern moleskine is fashioned after Chatwin's descriptions of the notebooks he used and is not a direct descendant.
In other words, the Moleskine brand notebook is a re-creation of a generic type of notebook based on Bruce Chatwin's description.
So I don't really sympathise that some one else ripped off the design and claims famous artists used it.