{"id":3906,"date":"2020-09-24T21:40:17","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T16:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiacityblog.com\/?p=3906"},"modified":"2020-09-24T21:40:17","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T16:10:17","slug":"designer-ritu-beri-and-trifed-face-civil-suit-from-cwws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiacityblog.com\/fashion\/designer-ritu-beri-and-trifed-face-civil-suit-from-cwws-3906\/","title":{"rendered":"Designer Ritu Beri and TRIFED face civil suit from CWWS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Phek District Court on 7<sup>th<\/sup> September issue a notice to the renowned fashion designer Ritu Beri and Tribal Co-Operative Marketing Development Federation of India Ltd (TRIFED). For causing damage to the Chakhesang Women Welfare Society (CWWS) for showcasing their shawls in an event.<\/p>\n<p>On September 7, the court released a notice requiring the fashion designer and TRIFED to file a written comment on a civil complaint brought by the CWWS within one month. Beri had reportedly organised a fashion show in association with Tribes India and Suraj Kund authorities at the Suraj Kund Crafts Mela in Haryana. The Chakhesang shawls were allegedly misrepresented in the show titled &#8216;Naturally North-East: The Naga Story&#8217; curated by Beri. Leading the CWWS to issue a complaint against it on February 20, the Society said.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on February 20, the CWWS claimed that the Chakhesang shawls had already been registered under GI and that the said shawls\/patterns could not be used by any individuals or Society without the consent from the registered owner.<\/p>\n<p>The CWWS said that the show has caused irreparable damage of identity of traditional shawls. The shawls are woven, and they were designed with deep-rooted meaning since ancient times.<\/p>\n<p>It displayed shock and distress at the designer for supposedly making a &#8220;mockery&#8221; of the traditionally woven shawls of Chakhesang Nagas. The traditional shawls were created by the Chakhesang Nagas and maintained through the years.<\/p>\n<p>Defendants Beri has been summoned by the court. And TRIFED, Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Government of India, has given them a month to file written statements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Phek District Court on 7th September issue a notice to the renowned fashion designer Ritu Beri and Tribal Co-Operative<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":3908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[6364],"yst_prominent_words":[1417,220,104,1568,140,3310,408,4153,2389],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiacityblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3906"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiacityblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiacityblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiacityblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiacityblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indiacityblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiacityblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiacityblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiacityblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiacityblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3906"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiacityblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=3906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}