Danish toy maker LEGO received a rather harsh critique from New York-based fashion designer James Concannon, who is suing the world’s largest toy company over its wardrobe selection for one of the plastic characters in the “Fab 5 Loft” LEGO set which is based on Netflix’s Queer Eye series.
The jacket in question was worn on the Netflix show by cast member Antonio Porowski. When LEGO released a Queer Eye themed LEGO set called the “Fab 5 Loft” in September 2021 as part of a collaboration with the Netflix series, Porowski’s mini-fig (a miniature LEGO character) was depicted wearing a jacket that, according to the complaint, is a “virtually identical copy” of Concannon’s jacket design, which is stylized with graffiti-style lettering, and provocative, tongue-in-cheek phrases which are a hallmark of Concannon’s design aesthetic.
