Taylor Swift Pledges Funds For Blacks In Fashion After Folklore ‘Rip Off’ Claim

Swift’s eighth studio album has been a critical and popular success, pulling in more than 500,000 album-equivalent units in its first three days of release, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data reported by Billboard.

As the album’s popularity was growing, Amira Rasool, the founder of Black-owned retailer The Folklore, took to Instagram to accuse Swift of ripping off the company’s logo for album merchandise, according to CBS.

Swift Thursday declared herself a fan of Rasool’s work and promised on Twitter to give financial support to her company and a new Black in Fashion Council that is set to launch next week.

 Swift’s merchandise also appears to have dropped “the” from its Folklore branding, according to CBS; and a cardigan on Swift’s merchandise website sports the logo “folklore album.”

Rasool’s The Folklore describes itself as an “innovative online retail concept based in New York City [that] stocks high-end and emerging designer brands from Africa and the diaspora, and serves as a cultural hub for contemporary brands, artists and creatives to showcase their personal stories.”

Rasool, through a spokesperson, declined Friday to comment on “ the Taylor Swift situation.”