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The complaint filed on Tuesday in federal court in New York
said ElevenParis has ignored the singers' warnings to stop the
sales, including in a store in Manhattan's Soho district, and on
its website.
The artists accused ElevenParis and its affiliates of being
"habitual, willful intellectual property infringers that,
without authorization, usurp the trademarks, copyrights and
other rights of A-list celebrities."
ElevenParis did not immediately respond to a request for
comment.
The challenged products include clothing bearing the singers'
faces, phrases such as "Kanye is my Homie" and "Pharrell is my
Brotha," and Beyonce and Rihanna song lyrics.
ElevenParis' actions "have caused and are causing immediate
irreparable harm" to the plaintiffs, who seek to recoup profits
and triple damages over the allegations of trademark
infringement and violations of their rights of publicity, the
complaint said.
Each of the artists also has their own clothing lines or
collaborations with apparel manufacturers, the complaint said,
generating "hundreds of millions of dollars" in sales.
(Reporting by Jonathan Stempel and Andrew Chung in New York;
editing by Grant McCool)
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