According to the cease and desist letter that fashion designer Philipp Plein recently received from Ferrari, Ferrari’s lawyers wants him to delete an Instagram post that showed his sneakers on the bonnets of his two parked Ferraris.

I mean the one that features a limited edition pair of Plein’s $800-plus PHANTOM KICK$ sneakers sitting atop of Plein’s $350,000-plus(₦127m+) green Ferrari 812 Superfast, with Ferrari’s word mark and legally-protected prancing horse logo front and center. 





The letter reads:

“Ferrari’s trademarks and model cars are associated in your pictures with a lifestyle totally inconsistent with Ferrari’s brand perception, in connection with performers making sexual innuendos and using Ferrari’s cars as props in a manner which is per se distasteful,”

“This behavior tarnishes the reputation of Ferrari’s brands and causes Ferrari further material damage,”

“In fact, the undesired connection between Ferrari’s trademarks on the one hand, and Philipp Plein’s line of shoes (and the questionable manner in which they are promoted) on the other hand, is interfering negatively with the rights enjoyed by Ferrari’s selected licensees which are exclusively entitled to use Ferrari’s trademarks to product and promote line of shoes Ferrari branded.”

The letter concluded by threatening legal action and demanding that Plein take down the post within 48 hours.



In his Instagram post on Monday, Plein, who has opted not to remove the images despite the threat from Ferrari, stated,
“I can’t even put in words how disappointed and disgusted I am about this unfair and totally inappropriate claim against me personally,” noting that he purchased his first Ferrari 10 years ago and remains a “good client” of Ferrari.

“If you want to continue treating your loyal clients with such letters from your lawyers, you will lose the support from many Ferrari fans.”

Plein concluded by saying:
“My lawyers will go hard and I will make every step public until FERRARI stops bullying their clients,”

https://autojosh.com/ferrari-threaten-to-sue-fashion-designer-for-advertising-his-shoes-on-top-of-his-n127m-sports-car/

Lol

No be his money he use buy the car?

Na his car,,, they should free the guy abeg

What an Effontry

A car already purchased from Ferrari
What concerns them with what the owner uses his car for after purchase.

Nawao after spending half a million dollars on an overrated supercar. The supercar company now sues me for taking photos with my car.

Big man problems...

This is the kind of order I want to get. Not the one from NEPA and sanitation agencies.

riddle me this riddle me that

NwaAmaikpe:




Philipp Plein is outrageously overrated.
His styles are just low-budget Ed Hardys.

With that said,
I stand with Ferrari.
Professional decorum must never be overlooked with brand advertising.

Hmmmm

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KngGezy:
What an Effontry

A car already purchased from Ferrari
What concerns them with what the owner uses his car for after purchase.

Nawao after spending half a million dollars on an overrated supercar. The supercar company now sues me for taking photos with my car.

right,An overated super car.

If na me just to spite Ferrari i will sell off every ferrari super car in my garage and buy another brand of car like a Lamborghini. What is ferrari feeling like sef. When no be say he use their car to act porn or sniff coke off the bonnet of their car. Utter rubbish.

Are they mad ni? no be him money him take buy d Ferrari?

Funny people everywhere

Most of this luxury car makers are paranoid.... Bugatti has a waiting list for few selected customers, rolls royce produces limited numbers of some variant of thier cars only for selected people on a 1 year waiting list

The worst one is some hypercars traded to few customers cant be openly sold by the owners , they sued Vin Diesel when he tried selling his exclussive car

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Those are people who know the value of their brand. Meanwhile Money Heist used our sovereign currency (N100 note) as their opening animation and nothing happened. Naija which way na?

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NwaAmaikpe:




Philipp Plein is outrageously overrated.
His styles are just low-budget Ed Hardys.

With that said,
I stand with Ferrari.
Professional decorum must never be overlooked with brand trademark advertising.

I miss this guy.

Ferrari is going to make this man very rich.

They are gonna tell him the type of person that he is to carry in d car.
Lubbish.

Oyinbo and werey , mo be my money I use buy my car? ...I can advertise mango on it if I like ...Ferrari is mad

Nonsense talk from Ferrari! If it were to be an ordinary man who did this, would they have written that letter? Hell No!

They just want to trend, using Philippe Plein as a skateboard � for the ride! The same thing Philippe Plein is doing, but PP have not committed any crime since he is the legitimate owner of the car!

Ok




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It doesn't make sense to take advantage of someone else's trademark like that.
The man should take down the post, apologize to Ferrari and move on.

The horse no be your own o. We sef they find am to chop. Common common that smelling shoe for Ferrari horse we won chop. Brakuubanka

Lol

Oga u sef discard their Ferrari and use the proceed to buy Toyota.

Oyinbo and their yeye lawsuit, them no even happy say he used their car in an advert. Na wah ooo

So if i buy a Ferrari & use it in transporting firewood, they will come sue me after buying the toy with my own money. Crazy i must say

Wait, did he not pay for the Ferrari?

How can you threaten someone for using his own property, the way that suits him.

Chuoooooooo!!! Oyinbo no go kill person...


Come to Ikeja and see boys displaying a whole container load of okrika shoes on top cars.



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They are not serious oh....so if I buy Ferrari and I use it for uba and decide to advertise my business showing d car I use they will now take me to court abi....

Na the joggers wear the man dey rock i dey view self dnt knw why i love tracksuit all of a sudden..

mgdimagaladima:
No be his money he use buy the car?

Na his car,,, they should free the guy abeg

no mind Ferrari. no be from sales of the shoes he got the money to purchase it ni