ALBAWABA - French luxury fashion house Louis Vuitton is facing a huge controversy and is accused of cultural appropriation following a legal case with Chinese tea brand "Molly Tea".
Louis Vuitton is being heavily citicized and facing a boycott campaign in China over the Molly Tea legal case controversy.
Molly Tea copied Louis Vuitton logo!
French luxury fashion house won a legal lawsuit against the famous Chinese tea chain "Molly Tea" over its four-petal flower logo, the BBC reported.
The Chinese tea brand was ordered to pay 10.3 million yuan [$1.5 million] in damages after a court ruled that its logo breached a Louis Vuitton trademark.
Molly Tea. (Instagram/ Molly Tea)
According to China Daily, a court in Suzhou, east of Shanghai, ordered Molly Tea last Thursday to stop using the four-petal flower logo, issue a public apology and pay $1.5 million in damages to the French fashion house.
Chinese activists rebuke Louis Vuitton:
Chinese people are furious because the Louis Vuitton logo pattern has existed in China for hundreds of years before the French fashion house was established.
Activists accused Louis Vuitton of copying their culture, arguing the pattern can be found everywhere in the country from early ages to this day.
A Chinese person posted on X explaining that the pattern was found printed on many things used by old Chinese people, including ancient musical instruments.
Another wrote, "Louis Vuitton isn't the only one. Many European luxury brands got 'inspiration' from ancient Chinese aesthetics, and made billions off it."
Louis Vuitton store. (Shutterstock)
