The Milan label is suing in Munich against an online retailer that sells, among other things, wet wipes. It’s much too close to the original with its name – and that’s likely to be expensive.
Germanists: What is the imperative of the verb to fail? Correct. Fail! A Duisburg businessman found this so funny that he gave his general store for wet wipes, iced coffees and the like this name. But it could also be that he wanted to borrow the word from an Italian luxury label, none other than the Milanese empire of Versace. The Italians didn’t think it was that funny – and now went to court.