![]() The fast fashion company is “also advertising some of its using the description ‘Bunny of the Month,’” which Playboy argues is “a clear and unauthorized reference to Playboy’s famous PLAYMATE OF THE MONTH trademark, which began using in 1954 in connection with the Playboy magazine.” More than merely selling similar-looking costumes, Playboy claims that Fashion Nova goes further in its “attempt to confuse and mislead consumers” into believing that there is an association between its costumes and the Playboy brand (when there is not) and Playboy, and to benefit from such a presumed affiliation. District Court for the Central District of California on Tuesday, Playboy asserts that “throughout the peak of the Halloween costume season,” Fashion Nova has been “prominently featuring” and selling costumes that look a bit too much like its trade dress-protected bunny costume, including the “iconic bunny ears, tail, ribbon name tag, wrist cuffs, corset, and bowtie collar.” (Playboy’s various enduring registrations for the costume specifically list the trade dress as consisting of “a three dimensional bunny costume worn by a woman,” which “includes a corseted bodice, bunny ears worn on the head, a bunny tail on the back of the bodice, a name tag on the front of the bodice, wrist cuffs and a bow tie collar.”) ![]() In the trademark infringement and dilution complaint that it filed in the U.S. This time around, Playboy is suing Fashion Nova over certain bunny costumes that it says the Southern California-based fast fashion company has marketed and sold in an attempt to “piggyback off of the popularity and renown of Playboy’s iconic Bunny Costume®, which Playboy has cultivated for more than six decades.” After being sued last year by Versace over a Halloween costume that looked a lot like the jungle print dress that Jennifer Lopez wore to the Grammys in 2000, Fashion Nova is on the receiving end of a new lawsuit – albeit over different Halloween costumes. ![]()
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