The Guardian reports
A country pub has received a framed apology from a fashion publishing giant after being threatened with legal action unless the landlords changed its name.
The Star Inn at Vogue was sent a cease-and-desist letter by Vogue’s publisher, Condé Nast, which claimed a link between the two businesses was “likely to be inferred”.
The pub has stood in Vogue, a Cornish village, for hundreds of years, while the magazine was not founded until 1916.
Condé Nast, which also owns The New Yorker, GQ, Vanity Fair and Wired, has since backed down, sending the pub a framed version of their apology.
Its parcel also included a handwritten note, which read: “From one Vogue to another – please accept our apologies.”
The pub’s landlord, Mark Graham, said he was taken aback by the response to news of the original letter after people from around the world, including Germany, the Netherlands, Australia and the US, got in touch to offer support.
Full story at https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/may/19/cornish-pub-receives-framed-apology-from-vogue-publisher-after-name-row
