Rihanna has won a legal battle with high street store Topshop over a T-shirt bearing her image.
The Court of Appeal in London upheld a ban on the store selling a sleeveless T-shirt featuring a photo of the star without obtaining her permission.
In the first successful celebrity case of its kind, three appeal judges agreed marketing the item without Rihanna’s approval amounted to “passing off”.
“Passing off” refers to the unauthorised used of a personal image.
The star sued Topshop’s parent company Arcadia for $5m (£3.3m) in 2013 over the T-shirts, which featured a photo taken during a video shoot in 2011.
In July 2013, judge Justice Birss found some buyers would have been deceived into buying the top because of a “false belief” it had been approved by the singer.
He said it was damaging to her “goodwill” and represented a loss of control over Rihanna’s reputation in the “fashion sphere”.
