Reality TV star Kim Kardashian West is being sued by Danish make-up artist Kirsten Kjaer Weis over her KKW Beauty line.
According to a report on TMZ, the make-up artist has accused Kardashian West of ripping off her cosmetic brand and their KW logo.
Weis says the problem is that Kardashian West’s products bear the KKW logo — similar to Weis’s KW.
In the lawsuit, the organic cosmetic creator says Kardashian West’s infringement is “knowing, willing and deliberate”. Weis wants the court to immediately block Kardashian West from using KKW, and to award her all of Kardashian West’s profits and punish her by making her pay damages.
Sources connected to Kim’s make-up line assert that she consulted several veteran trademark attorneys when launching her KKW line to ensure there were no violations. They are confident that KKW Beauty in no way infringes on Weiss’s brand.
Meanwhile, Kardashian West’s half-sister Kylie Jenner has been sued for copying neon ‘lip bite’ art for promotion of her new Life of Kylie reality show.
Artist Sarah Pope is suing the reality star along with E! Entertainment and NBCUniversal, saying they knowingly copied her 2015 work Temptation Neon without permission.
Pope says her original work and the alleged copycat image are nearly identical — with highly glossed lips in a “lip bite” pose ringed with a neon tube.
In her lawsuit filed on Tuesday in the US District Court here, Pope claims Jenner has a history of stealing from artists.
She points to another lawsuit that accused Jenner and her supermodel sister Kendall Jenner of using unlicensed photos of Notorious B.I.G., Tupac Shakur and other music icons for T-shirts that also featured the sisters’ faces.
The lawsuit claims: “Defendants used Temptation Neon without permission in promotional social media posts and in a promotional video featured online and in advertisements across the United States. They are building their brand and goodwill at Ms Pope’s expense.”
The lawsuit seeks real and punitive damages.
According to a source, the Life of Kylie promotional materials were independently created by a third party agency and that Jenner had no part in the process.
