In 2001, the organizers of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences annual Awards got into the gift-giving spirit. They decided that they would give nominees and presenters a gift bag, stuffed with tens of thousands of dollars of pricey skincare products, tech gadgets, jewelry, exotic trips, spa treatments, and the like. The value of each bag varied per year, but in 2005, one bag alone was estimated to ring up to more than $150,000, a dollar figure than made headlines and started a legal probe. 

Die-hard Chanel fans are not wasting time getting their hands on Karl Lagerfeld era Chanel products. The market's luxury resale sites are seeing a spike in searches and demand for Chanel products in the immediate wake of the news that Lagerfeld, the longtime Chanel creative director and Fendi womenswear head, died at age 85 on Tuesday. WWD has revealed that the death of the German fashion industry legend and pop culture icon has “resulted in an influx of interest in Chanel.”  

“We came up with ‘Kimoji!’” That is the central claim in the $100 million-plus fraud and breach of contract lawsuit filed earlier this month in an Oklahoma federal court by app developer David Liebensohn against Kardashian in a personal capacity and against her corporate entity, which takes issue with a partnership deal that the parties allegedly formed in 2014 to launch the wildly successful Kimoji venture only to have Kardashian swiftly cut him out less than a month later.  

It is rare to see a “Made in the USA” label or even in many cases, a “Made in Italy” one, for instance, on clothing. That is because, since the late 1990s, multinational fashion brands have increasingly outsourced their apparel manufacturing activities to lower-cost production locations in developing countries.  While this process generally translated into lower price tags for consumers and booming employment in factories in regions where formal employment was limited, it has also led to widespread instances of modern slavery.  

Kim Kardashian is suing Missguided for using her to sell its copycat garments. Counsel for Kardashian filed a complaint on her behalf in a California federal court on Wednesday, accusing the Manchester-based fast fashion company of engaging in “willful” trademark infringement and unfair competition, and of running afoul of right of publicity law by using Kardashian’s name and images of her to promote its wares without her authorization.

Have a look around almost any major city in America and you will see a common wardrobe staple among women: leggings. Over the past decade, the stretchy workout pant, which had for years been limited to a life inside the gym, has replaced the traditional pair of jeans as casualwear for hordes of females, enabling brands like Lululemon and Nike to reach entirely new consumers (in some cases) by outfitting women en mass as part of the seasonal trend-turned-bona fide apparel category called athleisure. 

More women in the U.S. are innovating in the fields of science, engineering, and entrepreneurship, but that might not be obvious from the numbers of utility patent protection being granted for novel inventions and design patent issued for the visual ornamental characteristics of a product. According to a newly-released report from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) that examines trends and characteristics of inventors named on U.S. patents granted between 1976 and 2016, the USPTO found that women continue to be under-represented. 

“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.” That is one the tenets at the core of what a young woman named Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel was doing when she set out in the early 1900’s to make hats, and then ready-to-wear for women. At the time, much of the French fashion landscape was dominated by restrictive corsets, frilly, puffed blouses, and fluted skirts, i.e., largely impractical, often uncomfortable, and uniformly pocket-less, day wear and over-the-top evening wear for women. Mademoiselle Chanel envisioned something else, something that more carefully considered the needs and desires of its wearers, women. 

“The True Story of When Louis Vuitton Sued Supreme,” reads a headline from a major menswear site, timed perfectly to run when the 185-year old luxury brand debuted a collaboration with Supreme last year. “Gucci Sued Dapper Dan Out of Business” is the original title of a recently-published (and since corrected) article from another mainstream media outlet. These are two of the “lawsuits” that fashion has had a field day referencing in connection with the ever-mounting rise of New York-based Supreme, and Gucci's highly-anticipated partnership with Harlem fashion legend, Dapper Dan. In reality, however, neither of those lawsuits ever actually happened.

Karl Lagerfeld, one of most legendary and instantly recognizable figures in fashion, died in Paris at age 85. Chanel confirmed the news on Tuesday. The German designer, who was the longtime creative director for Paris-based Chanel and womenswear director for Italian design house Fendi, was one of the industry's most influential – and at times, outspoken – figures.