Nina Ricci Sues ‘Twilight’ Perfume
As seen on Totally Looks Like, a picture-based site in the I Can Has Cheezburger network that allows users to visually point out look-a-like celebrities, animals, products, and more, these two perfumes are packaged suspiciously similarly.
On the left we have the perfume Nina by designer Nina Ricci, which debuted in its apple-shaped, red bottle in 2006. On the right, is Hot Topic’s Forbidden Fruit, a scent tie-in to the movie/book phenomenon Twilight, which, obviously, debuted after Ricci’s.
The similarities are undeniable; they are near twins except for the gold versus silver leaves and stem. In fact, Nina Ricci’s team thought the look was legally too close for comfort: the design house is suing. Even though an apple was a natural choice for the teen vampire product as it has already been a featured symbol of Twilight, such an obvious imitation is never the right choice. The leaves, shape, size, etc. could have and should have been different. Not to mention there is already a perfume deemed “Forbidden Fruit.” The first F.F. scent was created as a Desperate Housewives marketing ploy. Is that a second lawsuit I smell?
March 27th, 2009 at 8:26 pm
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