Rihanna today won a permanent ban on Topshop selling T-shirts using
her image – and an order that Sir Philip Green’s high street fashion
chain must pay her estimated legal costs of almost £1million.
Topshop owners Arcadia Group were ordered by Mr Justice Birss at the
High Court to pay £200,000 of this within 14 days, even though he found
the size of her bill ‘startling’ and ‘somewhat surprising’.
The Chancery Division judge ruled in July that fans of the
25-year-old singer from Barbados, who was not in court, might have been
deceived into thinking that she had endorsed the T-shirt.

Controversial: Topshop had sold the garment – which bore an image of her taken from a photograph – between March and August 2012