Q&A: Nude-Photo Artist Accuses Zappos of Ripping Her Off

'It's not cool,' says Erica Simone

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• Note: One of the images below features nudity. NSFW.

When Zappos unveiled its "More Than Shoes" campaign earlier this summer, featuring naked women on the streets of New York, it certainly turned heads—none more so than Erica Simone, a photographer who had taken some remarkably similar photos as part of her "Nue York" project. (Site is NSFW.) She believes the marketer and its agency, Mullen, ripped her off—that the shots are simply too similar and almost certainly not a coincidence.

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