Late last year, PopSugar’s #twinning app had a viral resurgence. The celebrity lookalike tool, which digital publisher PopSugar first released in early 2018, enables you to see what celebrities (out of a database of over 3 million) you look most like. All you have to do is upload a selfie, wait “about a minute or so,” and PopSugar’s algorithm ranks the celebs with which you share the greatest resemblance. That is precisely what hordes of people did – without ever reading the terms of service, which clearly stated that by submitting your photos, you granted rights to PopSugar to monetize, modify, and share them “in any media formats and through any media channels.”

Bill Gates is no longer the second-richest person in the world, per Bloomberg’s and Forbes’ respective billionaires lists; LVMH Moët Hennessy chairman Bernard Arnault is. 70-year old Arnault – who made headlines last month when his fortune topped $100 billion, thereby making him a centibillionaire, a position currently held by just three people in the world – has a net worth of $107.6 billion, putting him just ahead of Microsoft founder Gates, who is worth $107 billion. 

Anastasia Beverly Hills’ “hard candy”-colored highlighting powder is not likely to be confused with the products of a separate beauty brand that goes by the same name, a U.S. federal appeals court says. The nearly 25-year old Hard Candy filed suit in April 2016 in a Florida federal court after the buzzy Anastasia Beverly Hills released its limited edition Gleam Glow highlighter kit in December 2015, which consisted of four different peachy shades of facial highlighter, one of which was called “hard candy.”  

Single-use plastics, or disposable plastics – such a straws, coffee lids, and water bottles, which are used only once before they are thrown away or recycled – have been a topic of increased discussion amongst national and local governments, as well as non-profit organizations – and individuals – devoted to addressing and ideally, chipping away at the tons of pollution that finds it way into oceans across the globe each year. One category of products that is routinely left out of the larger single-use conversation? Fashion. It turns out, the industry has a single-use problem of its own of increasingly significant proportions.  

“Muji became one of Japan’s most recognizable brands by selling simple, practical items that it hopes will last for decades,” Bloomberg asserted this week. However, “It turns out that ‘less is more’ has its limits as a business strategy,” and one of the key struggles facing the almost 40-year old Japanese consumer goods retailer – which, despite embarking on a massive international expansion in the 2000’s and growing its revenues to $3.7 billion as a result, just reported its first decline in operating profit in nearly a decade – is Chinese copycats.  

Call it a comeback. Burberry’s shares were up more than they have been in a whopping 10 years in light of the British brand’s release of its First Quarter Trading Update on Tuesday. According to the report from the brand, same store sales rose by 4 percent for the 3 months ending on June 29, topping from analysts’ estimates of around 2 percent and the 1 percent growth the brand experienced in the previous three months. For the quarter, Burberry – under the creative control of Riccardo Tisci and CEO Marco Gobbetti – brought in $618.47 million in retail revenues, up from $594.87 for the same quarter last year. 

Kim Kardashian was awarded a whopping $2.7 million early this month after British fast fashion retailer Missguided posted a number of images of her to its website and social media pages without her authorization to promote its copycat wares. Counsel for the 38-year old star filed suit against Missguided’s separate British and American entities in February and after both “failed to appear, plead, or otherwise defend” in connection with the case, a California federal court ordered that Missguided USA pay Kardashian nearly $3 million in damages, and foot the bill for her attorneys’ fees.  

In a development that is being called a “plot twist the luxury war” that is LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton v. Kering, Stella McCartney has entered into an “agreement” with LVMH just months after severing her nearly 20-year venture with fellow luxury goods conglomerate Kering. On Monday, LVMH and McCartney, who is the daughter of Beatles front man Paul McCartney, confirmed the deal, which will "accelerate the [18-year old brand’s] worldwide development" of the company, one that is largely known for its commitment to ban leather or fur from all of its wares.  

“The Copyright Act did not anticipate this,” one Twitter user noted in connection with the latest paparazzi vs. celebrity lawsuit, which – as of the time of publication – is one that pits Splash News against Nicki Minaj. In the newly-filed suit, Splash News is accusing the musician of copyright infringement for posting seven photos of herself to her Instagram account. The problem, per Splash News, is that while Minaj is, in fact, the focal point of the images, she is not the copyright holder. 

Next time you visit a website think about this: there is a chance that the company from which you are about to purchase a designer dress or a skincare product or a vacation package has an individual profile of you. It is not merely a history of your purchases, your sizing details, or your credit card information; it is more thorough than that. It is a shadowy, digital “mug shot” crafted from your online data trail that just might include an estimation of “how much extra cash [you] have to spend on non-necessities,” how “likely [you are] to respond to a sales offer,” and/or what your future income might be.