Nirvana's lawyers previously claimed the fashion had tried to associate itself with the grunge band by using the image Nirvana and fashion brand Marc Jacobs have settled a copyright dispute over the band’s infamous smiley face logo. In 2018, Nirvana sued Marc Jacobs International after the company debuted a “Redux Grunge” collection, which included a shirt resembling Nirvana’s smiley face logo. Where the Nirvana smiley face had X’s for eyes, the shirt in question had the letters M and J for eyes – with the word “Heaven” above them – in a similar font to Nirvana’s.
At the time, Nirvana’s lawyers argued that Marc Jacobs use of the image was “intentional”, and done in an attempt to “associate the entire ‘Bootleg Redux Grunge’ collection with Nirvana, one of the founders of the ‘Grunge’ musical genre, so as to make the ‘Grunge’ association with the collection more authentic.” Kurt Cobain was said to have thought up the smiley face logo, although both Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic had previously testified that they did not know who made the smiley face – which Marc Jacobs lawyers noted in a countersuit. Stella Maxwell pictured at the Marc Jacobs Redux Grunge party, 2018.
CREDIT: In the 2019 claim, the designers stated: “The apparent absence of any living person with first-hand knowledge of the creation of the allegedly copyrighted work in question, coupled with numerous other deficiencies in the 166 Registration that is the basis for .
