There is more to Prada than revenue reports, creative director Miuccia Prada said after her Spring/Summer 2018 show on Thursday. No, the Italian design god would prefer you look to her designs, “which offer ideas to women of how to be strong and combative,” per Reuters.  Ms. Prada’s exact words: “I don’t want to be judged by sales, this is my love ... my life and my job (are) more important."

Bella Hadid has graced the covers of over a dozen major magazines over the past few months. She and her older sister Gigi have appeared in an almost countless number of ad campaigns within the past couple of years and there is nary an hour that goes by – literally – that Vogue does not tweet an image of one of the sisters or post an article that contains a photo of them.

How difficult is it – exactly – to prevent Chinese companies from using your brand name or logo? Ask Akris AG. The Swiss fashion brand, which shows in Paris each season, recently reclaimed rights in its name after fighting for 12 years. That’s right. Between 2003 and 2015, Akris AG was up against a Hong Kong-based company that decided to file a trademark application for the Akris  name roughly 81 years after Akris AG began using its mark continuously on garments and accessories and nearly 10 years after the Swiss company first gained trademark rights in the Far East.  

Every runway show during New York Fashion Week included at least two models of color, per TheFashionSpot’s bi-annual runway diversity report, a first in the history of NYFW. According to the fashion site, “While diverse representation in fashion is far from where it should be, there’s no doubt it’s on the rise."

Slated to be one of the "it" colors for Spring/Summer 2018: Meadowlark. The yellow hue – along with an array of other shades introduced this year – always existed in nature, but now they are official, meaning that they have been added to Pantone’s color system.

Within the past two years or so, Condé Nast shuttered Self, Details, and Lucky magazines. Penthouse did away with its print edition, and More magazine folded entirely. Yahoo announced in February 2016 that it would shutter a significant number of its digital magazines, and before that, in 2009, a huge slew of magazines, including Domino, Men’s Vogue, and a number of other Condé titles, as well as Hearst’s CosmoGirl, all ceased publication.

Is it inspiration? Is it imitation? And why – exactly – is everyone always knocking-off each other? Whether it takes the form of a garment design the runway of one designer one season going to the runway of another a few seasons later or from the runway in Paris to the racks of Zara a few weeks later, fashion – especially the industry in the U.S. – has a complicated relationship with copying.

The Trump administration is - potentially inadvertently - making it more difficult for skilled foreigners to work in the United States, challenging visa applications more often than nearly any point during the Obama era, according to data reviewed by Reuters.  “The more intense scrutiny of the applications for H-1B visas comes after President Donald Trump called for changes to the visa program so that it benefits the highest-paid workers,” Reuters wrote this week.

A lot of brands show during fashion month (130+ during New York Fashion Week alone). And while the usual suspects in each of the big four fashion capitals draw a lot of attention each season, and special circumstances (highly-anticipated debuts, go-away shows, etc.) periodically warrant extra attention, Prada has made its home on a different plane altogether. The Milan-based design house has our collective, undivided anticipation and attention every season, no "buts" about it.