Artist sues Lego over leather jacket on ‘Queer Eye’ toy of Antoni Porowski
nypost.comby the Fashion Law blog.The Post has reached out to Lego for comment.According to court documents, Porowski has worn a number of Concannon’s pieces since 2017, for all of which Netflix sought clearance from the artist, except one piece: a leather jacket commissioned expressly by Porowski to be worn during filming of their fourth season in 2018.
At the time, Concannon “figured this was simply an oversight on Netflix’s part,” the suit stated. However, since seeing his jacket on the Lego version of Antoni Porowski, Concannon claims it’s no coincidence that Lego created a jacket heavily inspired by that particular piece.The New York-based designer conceded that he’d failed to demand that Netflix codify a license to display the jacket, “as he had in previous instances where his works were featured on the show,” but added that he’d also “certainly never agreed to allow Lego — the largest toy company in the world, with over $5 billion in annual revenue — to commercially exploit his artwork for free,” the plaintiff wrote.
The upcycled design was “created using a plain black leather jacket that Porowski sent to Concannon, to which Concannon added his original artwork, composing and arranging each artistic element to reflect his signature aesthetic,” the complaint states.
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