A Brooklyn fashion designer
has filed a lawsuit against Yoko Ono, claiming she ripped off her wacky new
clothing line and tried to pass it off as her own.
Haleh Nematzadeh claimed John
Lennon's 80-year-old widow's design team saw sketches of her women's line
before tweaking it and selling the knockoffs online, the New York Post
reported.
Nematzadeh, who owns the
Bushwick-based clothing firm Smashing Starlets, said she met with photographers
working for Opening Ceremony, a retailer that now sells Ono's fashion line, in
July hoping to get images of her Gonna Walk the Night collection in the store's
catalog.
The fotogs were supposed to
meet Nematzadeh for a shoot but instead teamed up with Ono's designers, who
altered the garments into a men's line without permission, the designer
claimed.
On Opening Ceremony's Web
site, Ono says her fashion line - which features nipple holes and handprints on
crotches - is a tribute to her late Beatle hubby's hot body.
"I was inspired to create
Fashion for Men, [because I was] amazed at how my man was looking so great. I
felt it was a pity if we could not make clothes emphasizing his very sexy
bod," it reads.
But Nematzadeh's suit, filed
in Brooklyn federal court Friday, calls Ono's statement a "feeble
attempt" to claim the designs as her own.
"She's trying to put
fetish in context, but since when does fetish and John Lennon go
together?" she said.
"When you think of the
Beatles, you think of doves and trees, not that," she added. (Source)
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