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In the second recent marketing misstep
involving members of the Kardashian family, Kendall and Kylie
Jenner said they had withdrawn their $125 T-shirt line from sale
a day after it was launched.
"These designs were not well thought out and we deeply apologize
to anyone that has been upset and/or offended, especially to the
families of the artists," the Jenner sisters said in a
statement.
"We are huge fans of their music and it was not our intention to
disrespect these cultural icons in anyway," they added.
The move followed outrage from relatives of some of the artists,
and cease and desist letters from other musicians over
unauthorized use of the images.
"Girls, you haven't earned the right to put your face with
musical icons. Stick to what you know … lip gloss," Sharon
Osbourne, the wife of Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne,
wrote on Twitter.
Violetta Wallace, the mother of Notorious B.I.G, accused the
sisters of exploitation and said no one had contacted the
rapper's estate for permission.
"This is disrespectful, disgusting, and exploitation at its
worst!!!" Wallace said in an Instagram post. Notorious B.I.G,
also known as Biggie Smalls or Christopher Wallace, was killed
in a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles in 1997.
Kendall Jenner, 21, and Kylie Jenner, 19, are half-sisters of
Kim Kardashian and appear in the "Keeping Up With the
Kardashians" TV show. They are also both successful models in
their own right with a large following on social media.
In April, Kendall Jenner was featured in new Pepsi commercial
that the soft drinks company pulled after it prompted outrage
and ridicule by critics who said it trivialized political and
civil rights protests.
(Reporting by Jill Serjeant; Editing by Tom Brown yr ge)
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