Nadia Plesner made a T-shirt that she’s selling to raise money for kids in Darfur. Her shirt includes an image of a malnourished child carrying a sexy purse that looks like something out of the Louis Vuitton Desiccated Trophy Wife line so popular with the ladies a few years back. Note that it doesn’t have the LV logo, just a bunch of squiggles, and it bears a passing resemblance to the concept of an LV bag remixed by an designer. It is as much an infringement of an LG bag as Exile in Guyville by PJ Harvey Liz Phair (sorry, I played guitar for a woman who loved PJ Harvey and she kept playing this so…) infringes on the Rolling Stones.
Well, that didn’t stop LV from suing her. She’s getting charged $7,500 a day for showing the image and another $7,500 for using the words Louis Vuitton. This is what we like to call around the barn “batshit insane.” Head on over, buy some shirts, and prove that the corpse of a leather goods manufacturer reanimated by effete and greedy SwissFrench nationals probably shouldn’t be messing with real artists.
While I completely agree on the ridiculousness of this law suit and the attitude behind is, I fail to see how this:
is relevant in any other way than show either a slip-up in research (since LVHM is majority owned by B. Arnault http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Arnault who is French and not Swiss) or equally ridiculous behaviour against other nations than your own. The Swiss are not per se greedy, just as they don’t ride their cows to school. *rollseyes*
yeah, sorry. I’m a huge dick.
Isn’t it an “SL” on the bag? That would be an infringement on Yves Saint Laurence.
Yves Saint Laurent’s trademark acronym is YSL, SL stands for Second Life I suppose giving this shirt design a brilliantly placed social criticism of our modern life…
I think the bag style is LV so therefore…
someone has to explain me how targeting the makers of luxury bags is actually helping anyone in Darfur. speak slowly, I’m French.