Todd Oldham.
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Yesterday, a New York court voted to reinstate Todd Oldham’s breach-of-contract suit against Old Navy. The designer first filed the lawsuit a few years back, after the retailer terminated his position as design creative director (which he’d held since 2007) and dropped a licensing deal for a Todd Oldham signature collection. A judge dismissed his case in January 2010, however, on the grounds that Oldham’s company, L-7 Designs, Inc., was making “extraordinarily high demands,” including “$75 million in compensation for lost royalties and reputational damages.” Oldham dropped his requested amount to $20 million and appealed the case, which apparently worked.
Appeals court reinstates Todd Oldham’s contract claims against Old Navy [NYP]
