Kim Kardashian‘s pricey skincare line Skkn by Kim is facing its first lawsuit.
Just weeks after the fact star launched her $630 nine-step system in partnership with beauty giant Coty Inc., Brooklyn, N.Y.-based Black-owned aesthetician, Beauty Concepts, has filed a lawsuit against Kardashian and Coty over trademark infringement.
Beauty Concepts, owned by Cydnie Lunsford, sells skincare products and provides services out of its retail location in Brooklyn under the Skkn+ trademark and in addition sells skincare products through its website. The suit alleges that Beauty Concepts reached out to Kardashian and Coty to request that they abandon their plans to make use of a mark incorporating probably the most significant elements of Beauty Concepts’ mark Skkn+.
Kardashian and Coty were also placed on...
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