In a 2015 article about male model Brad Kroenig, Karl Lagerfeld’s muse since 2003, the New York Times shed some light on the rather infrequently discussed difference in pay between male and female models. Interestingly, modeling is one circumstance in which women (or girls, in most cases) are paid significantly more than their male counterparts. The article highlights not just the difference in annual income of top models, but also the advantage that male models tend to have, if they can maintain a career. 

Olivier Theyskens is set to make a comeback. The Belgian designer, who launched his own label in the late 1990’s before he landed at Nina Ricci and Rochas and put the label on hiatus, has been the topic of much industry speculation, particularly given the many high profile creative director position openings in recent years. After being tapped to serve as artistic director of Theory in 2010, he ultimately left the house in June 2014 “to pursue other design projects.” Ever since, he has been quietly working on relaunching his eponymous brand, bringing on LVMH veteran Maximiliano Nicolelli as chief executive.

Hedi Slimane may have left Yves Saint Laurent in March with his successor, Anthony Vaccarello, slated to make his debut this evening, but that does not mean that the Paris-based design house is not still reaping some of the benefits of its polarizing former creative director. Case in point: the slew of new patents that YSL has been awarded since Slimane left for designs from his tenure at the famed fashion house.

A recent Vogue.com article that takes on the industry’s well-known penchant for bloggers warrants a bit of attention, if for no reason other than the fact that it sorely lacks context. The piece at issue, entitled, Ciao, Milano! Vogue.com’s Editors Discuss the Week That Was, which was published on Monday on the heels of the Spring/Summer 2017 shows in Milan, includes some interesting and controversial excerpts, particularly from Alessandra Codinha, Vogue.com’s news editor, on the state of the runway show and fashion week, in general.

Edie Parker, the celebrated brand responsible for the vintage-inspired clutches that you have been seeing on just about every major red carpet and in street style photos at the various fashion weeks, has filed suit against Milly, the New York-based brand launched by designer Michelle Smith in 2001. According to Edie Parker’s complaint, which was filed late last week in the Southern District of New York, “Defendant [Milly] is also a seller of ladies’ handbags, among other products. But rather than create and market its own designs, it sells handbags that parasitically copy Edie Parker’s protected handbag trade dress design.”

Jeremy Scott, the Los Angeles-based designer who moonlights as the creative director of Italian design house, Moschino, where he showed a paper doll collection not terribly unlike one (at least in concept) that John Galliano showed in 1999, is the star of a new(ish) documentary, Jeremy Scott: The People's Designer. At the movie's premiere last summer, he was served with a copyright infringement lawsuit in connection with his designs.

The law is creeping on to the runway. We saw it in February, when Gucci tapped Brooklyn-based artist GucciGhost to put his mark on its garments and accessories. One of the bags from the Italian design house's Fall/Winter 2016 bears a graffiti-tagged “REAL” situated just above a Gucci logo. On a jacket, the © symbol, which denotes a federal copyright registration. Another includes an ®, the equivalent trademark notation.