It's cheap to fashion imitative artwork (8)
I believe the answer is:
pastiche
'imitative artwork' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'it's cheap to fashion' is the wordplay.
'to fashion' indicates an anagram.
'its'+'cheap'='itscheap'
'itscheap' with letters rearranged gives 'PASTICHE'.
(Other definitions for pastiche that I've seen before include "Hepcats I found in composition from several sources" , "Imitative artistic work" , "Work of art that imitates the style of other works" , "Work of art that imitates the style of a previous work" , "Imitative artwork" .)