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We’re sure the studio behind the “Twilight” movies doesn’t want to break the hearts of young girls everywhere. But Summit has decided to stop a retailer from selling a jacket advertised as being worn by Bella Swan.
The studio filed a lawsuit against women’s fashion designer B.B. Dakota on Friday for copyright and trademark infringement. On the company’s website, B.B. Dakota advertises a blue cotton canvas jacket like this: “Bella Swann (sic) wears this jacket in Twilight and scores the hottest vampire in high school, and so can you!”
Wow, what young Twi-hard could resist that product pitch?
When the jacket first debuted in 2008, Women’s Wear Daily wrote it was “the stuff that legends are made of.”
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