Global fashion magazine Vogue has threatened a small pub in an English hamlet with legal action unless it changes its name. The magazine's owner, Conde Nast, says the name of the pub, The Star Inn at Vogue, in the parish of St Day in Cornwall could prove confusing to the general public.
It has sent the pub in the hamlet of Vogue near Redruth a ‘cease and desist’ letter to stop using the name ‘Vogue’ as it is their name, CornwallLive reports. This is despite the pub being more than 200 years old and the hamlet being even older.
The letter asked publicans Mark and Rachel Graham to stop using the name of the Cornish hamlet because it might readers may think the boozer is linked to the glossy magazine. Not surprisingly, when Mark, 60, opened the letter he thought someone was having him on and said: “Surely these people can’t be serious."
