Fashion is always on the move and not just on the runways. Photographers, makeup artists, stylists, fashion models and their agents (bookers), to name a few, are seemingly in constant motion, switching agencies, and, usually, to a competing firm. Your best performing talent comes to you, her manager, one day and says: “Sorry Charlie for the imposition,” and then she’s gone (Daryl Hall and John Oates, “She’s Gone,” Abandoned Luncheonette (Atlantic Records 1973)), off to your biggest competitor. You “need a drink and a quick decision.” Id.

Suing talent has never been favored by the industry as there is always the hope that he or she will see the error of their ways and come back (and they do, sometimes). Perhaps, you think to yourself (after that double martini), you can sue your competitor for poaching to teach them a lesson. In New York, this would be called a cause of action for “tortious interference with contract.”

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