“I have long-term goals in fashion, but not so much with any one brand.” This is a tidbit of what Rihanna shared with the audience during Vogue’s inaugural Forces of Fashion event in New York last October. The pop star’s discussion followed closely behind her final runway show with Puma for her Fenty collection, and also came on the heels of the wildly successful launch of her Fenty Beauty brand with LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton’s Kendo division.

Amazon has been hit with yet another strongly-worded lawsuit centering on fakes. After being cut off by Birkenstock (twice!) and slapped with a trademark lawsuit by Mercedes Benz’s parent company Daimler AG for its failure to commit to “proactively polic[ing] its site for counterfeits and unauthorized retailers,” the American e-commerce giant is being sued by Seven For All Mankind International (“Seven”), which is calling attention to Amazon’s “egregious, willful and wanton activities” in connection with Seven’s Ella Moss label.   

Want to hear about the most quintessential digital age-influencer era legal battle ... ever? Well, here it is. One YouTube star/musician is suing another YouTube star/musician and the creative partner that the two look-alike, dress-alike blondes have in common. In a copyright infringement suit filed this week in federal court in California, Brittany Alexandria Sheets is facing off against Moriah Pereira and Corey Mixter. Or maybe you know these three as: Mars Argo, Poppy and Titanic Sinclair, respectively.

By way of #sponsored endorsements (and even unsponsored ones), Kim Kardashian has been extremely successful at boosting the bottom lines of brands that she does not own, or does not own in their entirety. For a decade, Kardashian put her pricey Instagram seal-of-approval on “tanning [products], shoes, cupcakes and fitness videos,” among other things. Within the past few years, however, Kardashian, one of the world’s most famous faces, has pivoted in terms of her strategy.

It is a whole lot easier to get an Hermes Birkin bag online than it is to get one in stores, where it is almost impossible unless you have built up an extensive purchase history with the luxury stalwart. The same can said for Chanel bags, which the Paris-based brand does not offer for sale online at all, and even some of the most pricey Louis Vuitton bags and garments, which the luxury goods giant reserves for sale in its store, even though they are available for view on its various international e-commerce sites.

Natalie Massenet made headlines in 2015 when she jumped ship from Net-a-Poter, the e-commerce  giant she founded 15 years prior. The move, which set the fashion industry abuzz, came just ahead of the finalization of the merger of Net-a-Porter and fellow e-commerce site Yoox, which joined to create the multi-billion-dollar online retailer giant known as YNAP. In the wake, Massenet joined former rival FarFetch and as she confirmed this week, she has another job on the table: Co-founder of a buzzy new venture capital firm Imaginary Ventures, which she launched with New York-based investor Nick Brown.

“I feel robbed,” says Cecilia Keil, who has had her designs copied en masse by international retail giants. None of them “know the significance and the meaning of the prints,” which are derived from Samoa’s cultural art prints and “that belong to our people,” Keil notes. Aside from being disappointed that her work has been “duplicated” without her authorization, the Samoan fashion designer says there are “ethical complications around bigger clothing apparel companies profiting off the intellectual and cultural property of Samoa."

On Wednesday, representatives for Gucci and Guess confirmed that the two parties, which have been warring in courts across the globe for the past decade, have reached an agreement “which will result in the conclusion of all pending intellectual property litigations and trademark office matters worldwide.” The terms of the agreement were not disclosed, per WWD. “The agreement is an important step for both companies in recognizing the significance of protecting their respective intellectual property portfolios and design creativity,” the two companies said in a joint statement.

In a new interview published by Numero, Philip Utz sat down with Chanel creative director Karl Lagerfeld, whom Utz describes as “a truly free spirit,” “a cult figure in the fashion world,” “a veritable pop icon,” and a lacking in “taboos,” the duo talks about everything from the speed of fashion and the #MeToo movement to who Lagerfeld would like to see replace him at Chanel and who he thinks are particularly talented young creatives.

Ruth Chapman did not set out to launch one of the premier fashion retailers in the world. She simply found herself at home in Wimbledon with her recuperating husband Tom, who had been sidelined in a tragic car accident. The two, both with fashion industry backgrounds, had some time on their hands to ponder their next move. And Matches “was born,” Chapman, 56, told the Telegraph, from evenings that the two “spent thinking about what happens next and what we should do moving forward."