"On June 15, 2017, H&M sent a truck with 1580 kilo [3483 pounds] cartons filled with garments for incineration" to a Danish waste disposal facility, according to a striking new investigation from Danish television channel TV2’s Operation X program. This is just a small part of larger practice by the Swedish fashion giant, per TV2, which has accused H&M of burning roughly 12 tons of garments every year over the past several years.

Over four years after the Rana Plaza tragedy, which killed more than 1,000 garments factory workers in Bangladesh, safety problems are still extremely widespread. Despite the formation of two retailer groups consortiums to address safety issues, poor working conditions and low wages continue to plague the garment manufacturing sector in Bangladesh, the second largest apparel exporter in the world, second only to China.

Not only do fast fashion retailers have a serious track record of copying, they have recently taken to fighting back when they are called out for it. Forever 21 recently filed suits against adidas and Gucci, and now H&M has slapped Wildfox Couture with a new lawsuit, claiming that it is not running afoul of federal trademark law for marketing and selling a sweatshirt bearing the words “Toronto Wildfox.”

LVMH is said to be looking to fill a soon to be vacant creative director position at Céline, as creative director Phoebe Philo is looking for an out, per Vogue Australia. However, the Paris-based conglomerate has denied that Philo’s departure will be taking place any time soon. “According to multiple sources, the design team is preparing for Philo’s eventual exit from the French fashion powerhouse brand by interviewing designers to take her place for when the impending time comes,” writes Vogue.

The Spring/Summer 2018 shows – whether in New York or Paris – made it clear that logomania is back. After doing away with ubiquitous branding several years ago, on the heels of what has been referred to as “logo fatigue,” not even some of more logo-adverse brands can stay away as of late.

Virgil Abloh attended Vogue’s inaugural Forces in Fashion event in New York with a bag from Louis Vuitton’s collection with artist Jeff Koons on his arm. The bag’s the strap – which read “Louis Vuitton” c/o Virgil Abloh © 2017 – was eye-catching, as it seemed to indicate that Abloh, 37, had signed on to do a collaboration with the Paris-based design house. While Louis Vuitton is extremely selective when it comes to collabs, such a deal with Abloh would hardly come as a surprise for a few reasons, not least of which is that Abloh is on something of a collaboration spree.

While it is completely common for design houses to file trademark claims against large networks of websites and their operators in connection with the sale of counterfeit goods, it has not been quite as regular an occurrence for these owners of valuable intellectual property rights to file lawsuits against individual marketplace users. But that is swiftly changing.

THE FASHION LAW EXCLUSIVE – As Diet Prada wrote in a recent post, calling out J.W. Anderson for allegedly copying Hermès, “Everything surfaces at some point, people!” With that in mind, here is the answer to the question on many fashion figures and fans' minds as of late: Tony Liu and Lindsey Schuyler. They are the duo behind the anonymous Instagram account Diet Prada. What has been called “a must follow for fashion lovers” by WWD, Diet Prada’s founders first posted in December 2014, pitting a Dior Pre-Fall 2015 coat by Raf Simons against a Prada Fall/Winter 2014 one.

Five years after passing legislation to stamp out the fashion industry’s employment of unhealthy models, Israel lawmakers are pushing to tighten the nation’s existing ban, per Reuters, “amid concern that the measures are being routinely flouted even as they are adopted abroad.” New discussion calls into question the efficacy of the existing law, which not only requires that models must have a body-mass index of at least 18.5 and that advertisers explicitly to identify imagery that has been digitally modified to make models appear thinner.