Call it a battle of the beauty brands. On Wednesday, the American arm of French giant L’Oreal slapped its much smaller (but rapidly growing) rival, Houston, Texas-based Drunk Elephant with an ugly new lawsuit, alleging that the cult-followed 5-year old brand is infringing one of its patents in connection with an award-winning and highly-buzzed-about $80-per-ounce Vitamin C serum.

THE FASHION LAW EXCLUSIVE — Chanel is not a fan of luxury resale sites. Several months after filing suit against What Goes Around Comes Around, the Paris-based design house has named The RealReal in a trademark infringement and counterfeiting lawsuit, accusing the popular resale site of “selling counterfeit CHANEL handbags,” despite its claims that it “ensure[s] that every item on[its site] is 100% the real thing.”

In 2014, Amazon’s sales were inching towards $90 billion and the e-commerce giant that Jeff Bezos had founded 20 years prior in the garage of his home in Washington state had plans of expansion in the works. Within a year, the Seattle-based platform would enable China-based entities to sell directly to Amazon shoppers, and increasingly implement efforts, such as a top-of-the-line logistics system and vast network of fulfillment centers, to make it easier for merchants to become exporters.

On its face, “Celebration,” the newly-edited film released this week in theaters in Paris, has nothing to do with the law. It is a documentary that occupies the fashion space, centering on the lives of the late Mr. Yves Saint Laurent and his longtime life/business partner Pierre Bergé. Yet, at the very same time, the film, which is the handiwork of French director and screenwriter Olivier Meyrou, speaks to the law in a rather significant way.

Ron English, the American contemporary artist, has vowed to whitewash an artwork by Banksy that he bought on Thursday for $730,000. A move, he says, is meant to protest the market for street art. The artwork at issue: a piece, entitled, "Slave Labour," which consists of a child slumped over a sewing machine to which a string of Union Jack flags are attached. Originally painted on the side of a building in London in 2012, the artwork mysteriously went “missing” in February 2013 before being sold for over $1.1 million at a private auction in London later that year, and ultimately landing in the possession of English.

“Dear Madewell, I am not sure why you would need to use my name and my trademark … Please take my name out of your ads.” This is what California-based designer Jesse Kamm had to say – in an Instagram post on Tuesday – upon learning that when you Google her name, the results consist of her signature high-waisted “Kammpants,” as well as lookalike trousers from Madewell.

Lorde is calling out Kanye for copying. On Monday, the New Zealand-born musician posted images on Instagram from Kanye West and Kid Cudi’s recent performance at the Camp Flog Gnaw festival in Los Angeles, pointing to the similarity of the duo’s set design – they performed inside a transparent rectangle-shaped box (pictured above), accented with florescent lights at certain points, flames at others, and suspended above the stage throughout – and one that she utilized for her 2017 Coachella festival performance and her subsequent Melodrama world tour.

Ian Rogers, the former Apple executive who joined Paris-based luxury good conglomerate LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton as its chief digital officer in 2015 (thereafter spearheading the group’s multi-brand e-commerce platform, 24 Sèvres and other aspects of the Louis Vuitton, Dior, Celine, and Givenchy parent company’s digital presence), talked to Wired about what “selling luxury” really entails and where marketing is going …

Two Georgia-based companies have agreed to settle an ongoing Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) investigation over their marketing methods for a Zika-specific insect. According to the FTC, Creaxion, an Atlanta-based public relations firm, was hired by insect repellent-maker Fit Organic to promote its products during the 2016 Zika virus outbreak, which coincided with the 2016 Summer Olympics in Brazil. In doing so, Creaxion “partnered with Inside Publications, [the] publisher of Inside Gymnastics magazine, to obtain athlete endorsers and otherwise promote the product.”