Earlier this month we learned that Hot Topic has started selling a Twilight Perfume as one of the many merchandising product tie-ins associated with the Twilight movie. As you may recall, the bottle of said perfume had a very distinctive apple shape to it (which, I assume, is meant to refer to the apple that is featured on the cover of the Twilight book). Many Pink readers commented that the bottle looked exactly like the bottle that was created for the 2006 Nina Ricci perfume Nina. Today, we learn that Nina Ricci has decided to file a lawsuit against the makers of the Twilight Perfume for stealing their bottle design:
The makers of a fragrance released to promote hit vampire movie TWILIGHT are facing legal action from a rival cosmetics company for allegedly copying the design of their bottle. Executives at fashion house Nina Ricci are suing the makers of Twilight perfume Forbidden Fruit, which features the movie’s stars Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart on the box. The bottle itself is in the shape of a red apple and comes decorated with silver leaves and lid – a design said to be almost identical in style to the packaging of Nina Ricci scent Nina.
Oh yeah, they’re busted. Once I learned from Pink readers that the bottles looked similar I check it out to compare and could clearly see that the bottle designs are identical. While I think it is genius for the makers of the Twilight Perfume to make their bottle look like an apple (as a tie-in with the book), I think it was really stupid of them to think they could copy the bottle design from such a well-known fashion house and assume that no one would be the wiser. My guess is that Nina Ricci will win the dispute and the Twilight merchandiser will have to either package their fragrance in a different bottle, come up with their own apple design or scrap the whole endeavor altogether. For the sake of the rabid Twilighters out there who will most likely be spraying this stuff on their pillows so that they can have sweet dreams of Edward Cullen, I hope they opt for one of the first two scenarios. Yeah, saw this lawsuit coming a mile away.
In other news, I wonder when the lawsuits will come from products like THESE cuz, sorry to say, theyr’e kinda too fug to exist.
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This stuff just shot to ultra collectors status! Big DOH! for the Twilight marketing team
Good.
Thousands of those perfumes were already sold..time for twilighters to buy those perfumes before they are gone off the shelves. I personally loved the perfume and plan on getting an extra bottle just in case..ha!
These bottles also resemble the bottle for Dior’s Hypnotic Poison.
very funny- i thought twilight could be a bit more creative. it also looks like DKNY’s delicious perfume.
If you really want some Twilight Jewelry that was approved by Stephenie Meyer…
Get yourself Bella’s bracelet:
http://www.twilightteez.com/be.....et-tm.html
Or even!
Bella’s Engagement Ring:
http://www.twilightteez.com/be.....ng-tm.html
I have to say… that is not at ALL how I imagined Bella’s ring to look. I really… don’t like it. Also, I thought in the book, the bracelet was some kind of braided cord with the charms… I don’t know, it’s been awhile since I read it.
@Maggie — the bracelet is nice, the ring is really bad … but they are both better than the baubles being sold at Borders and Hot Topic
hhahahah well, they should’ve seen that coming, put a little creativity into your bottle dude, wtf? It is really similar.
is the model for the Nina Ricci perfume the girl that played Victoria in Twilight ? it looks like her … that’d be a weird coincidence…
Haha we saw that coming!
They haven’t been original yet – why start now?
They stole the book cover from CS Lewis
http://www.amazon.com/Words-Li.....038;sr=8-1
Actually, I think Twilight came out before the release of that particular CS Lewis cover. So if that’s the case, you have it backwards.
And honestly, how can you steal an idea of an apple? It’s a freaking apple, for christs sake. There was no “stealing” of it unless everytime I eat one I need to pay Nina Ricci money for it. This is such a sue happy country…
The CS Lewis book came out almost a year after Twilight. And its not a surprise they have the apple in common. The twilight cover is the only one Stephanie had 100% control over, and she has explained the concept was that Bella is Edwards forbidden fruit, hence the apple….btw I can’t believe Stephenie actually approved jewlery (ouside of the official stuff from the movies) Actually wait…that doesn’t surprise me. She seems okay with slapping the “twilight” name on anything.
I TOTALLY CALLED IT!!!
http://pinkisthenewblog.com/ho.....ent-142971
They obviously didn’t put a lot of planning into this- when my daughter got it I noticed the box it came in had a spelling error. Fruit is spelled wrong on the box and correctly on the bottle.
yay!
[...] p.s. on another note, if you haven’t already gotten your Twilight perfume from Hot Topic yet, run out and get it as you may not have the chance for much longer.. Per Pink is the New Blog, the makers of the twilight perfume are being sued by Nina Ricci for jackin their perfume bottle… check out the story here. [...]
I don’t care if they ripped off the bottle design. I want that Twilight perfume..bad!!!!!
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