Adidas has filed a lawsuit against Forever 21 for counterfeiting and violating trademark laws.
For decades Adidas has placed the 3-stripes striping on clothing and footwear and has invested millions of dollars building its brand in connection with the ‘three-stripe mark”.
Adidas says it owns numerous “incontestable federal trademark registrations” for the design. Despite that, the company claims Forever 21 is “designing, sourcing, manufacturing, disturbing, marketing, promoting, offering for sale, and/or selling apparel bearing identical and/or confusingly similar imitations of Adidas’ Three-Strip Mark.”
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Adidas claims (the photo above) are examples of the identical or confusingly similar imitations of the Three-Strip Mark. The lawsuit claims the merchandise is “likely to cause confusion, deceive the public regarding its source, and dilute and tarnish the distinctive quality of Adidas”.
Adidas is asking a federal judge to prevent Forever 21 from distributing, marketing or selling clothing that bears either “identical or confusingly similar imitations of the Three-Strip Mark” and wants to be awarded monetarily to “disgorge all profits from sales of the counterfeit and/or infringing apparel.”
Bad Gal RiRi was the life of the party at this years Kadooment Day Parade.
Wearing a zulu styled bikini costume atop a float at the Carnival-like day celebration in Barbados, Rihanna was living it up with a cup in her hand and some twerking in those hips. RiRi sure knows how to party.
Move over Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella, there’s a new princess in town and she’s starting some beef, literally.
“Taco Belle” was spotted at Taco Bell in her full on taco princess gown placing an order over three years ago 24 year old Olivia Mears was dressed up as Belle inside of Taco Bell and next thing you know she went viral.
“I was dressed as a normal Belle after a photoshoot in 2012 and decided to eat some Taco Bell while in costume,” said Mears. “Someone snapped a picture of me and posted it to Reddit and it went viral.“
Now Mears has relived her Belle at Taco Bell experience by creating a full on custom made taco princess gown. She estimates the costume took around 30 hours to make from fabric, cardstock, tissue paper and felt.
“I have as much as everyone else, I just hate being bored. I’ve always got at least three costumes/artworks I’m working on at any given time,” she said.
Check out more of her designs right here —-> Instagram
On Monday, Gap said it will close out 175 Northern American stores also a “limited number” of Gap stores in Europe over the next few years.
The company said the layoffs will mainly affect employees at its San Francisco headquarters with about 250 jobs being cut. The brand has been struggling for a few years now. Gap reported dismal sales for the first quarter of 2015, down 10% from last year. After the closures, the company will have 500 specialty Gap stores in North America, as well as 300 outlet stores
Gap executives will give more details on the changes in an investor meeting on Tuesday at 9 a.m. PST.