Glossy fashion mag Vogue has apologised for threatening to sue a 200-year-old English pub with the same name.
Publisher Condé Nast submitted legal action against The Star Inn at Vogue. But the hostelry in Cornwall is more than two centuries old and the village of Vogue is even older. Vogue magazine is a relative baby in comparison – and was only founded in 1916.
The publisher’s legal team in New York sent pub bosses Mark and Rachel Graham a “cease and desist” letter threatening them if they didn’t stop using the name Vogue. The couple replied to Sabine Vandenbroucke, chief operating officer at the magazine, sparking an online storm.
Vogue has now backed down and apologised and the story has been picked up by media everywhere. Talk about a fashion faux pas.