Just over a year after Los Angeles became the fourth U.S. city to ban the sale of fur, the state of California will become the first-ever state to ban sale of new fur products. On Saturday Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law Assembly Bill 44, legislation that as of January 1, 2023 will make it unlawful to “sell, offer for sale, display for sale, trade, or otherwise distribute for monetary or nonmonetary consideration a fur product.” The law will also ban the manufacturing of fur product in the state of California as of that date.  

Gucci may enjoy exclusive rights in its famed horsebit trademark for use on footwear in the U.S., but the Italian design house has just been handed a loss in connection with that same mark in a long-running case in Italy. Since 2011, when Gucci discovered and with the help of the Guardia di Finanza – Italy’s financial authority – confiscated horsebit-bearing loafers that were being sold under the Silvano Lattanzi brand name by a retailer in Tuscany, the Kering-owned fashion powerhouse has been facing off against Lattanzi over its allegedly unauthorized and infringing use of the horsebit symbol.  

In September, Instagram announced that certain posts will no longer appear on the feeds of individuals under age 18. To be exact, the Facebook-owned photo sharing app plans to restrict the viewership of posts promoting diet products and cosmetic procedures as part of a new policy to make the heavily-used platform “a positive place for everyone,” according to Instagram’s public policy manager, Emma Collins. 

In August 2018, Zion Williamson might have been one of 1,740 incoming freshman at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, but the 18-year old, who was recruited to play on Duke’s Blue Devils basketball team, was hardly your average college freshman. In a single season, the 6’6’ Salisbury, North Carolina native averaged 22.6 points per game and won an array of awards, all while amassing hundreds of thousands of Instagram followers, covering sports magazines, and even appearing in an ESPN commercial. 

Following months of reports that Drunk Elephant was nearing an acquisition deal, Japanese giant Shiseido has been revealed as the purchaser of the buzzy beauty brand in what is being called “the most anticipated beauty M&A deal of 2019.” In exchange for $845 million, Shiseido will take a 100 percent stake in the 7-year old clean beauty brand, whose revenues for 2018 were reportedly close to $100 million, a deal that “underscores the Japanese buyer’s ambitions to globalize its beauty offerings,” per WWD. 

The LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton has added a new brand as a recipient of investment in its roster of emerging-stage fashion, cosmetics or accessories companies. The Paris-based luxury conglomerate’s LVMH Luxury Ventures subsidiary revealed that it has taken a stake Madhappy, the 2-year old streetwear-slash-loungewear brand that has found a core following amongst 18 to 30 year-olds thanks to its color streetwear-esque wares and positivity-centric messaging. 

A paparazzi photographer wants to bag a quick win in the case he filed against Virgil Abloh this summer. After filing a copyright lawsuit against Abloh’s corporate entity Canary Yellow LLC on August 30 after he posted a photo of model Bella Hadid – toting a customized suitcase from a collaboration between Abloh’s brand Off-White and Rimowa – to his Instagram account without paying to license the photo from Jawad Elatab, counsel for the copyright-holding photographer says the buzzy designer has failed to respond.  

Growth in LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton’s Fashion & Leather Goods for the first nine months of the year topped that of every other respective division – from Wines & Spirits to Perfumes & Cosmetics, the Paris-based goods conglomerate revealed on Wednesday. According to a release from the world’s largest luxury goods group, the Fashion division is up 18 percent so far this year, while sales growth for LVMH as a whole amounted to 16 percent for the past nine months (compared to 11 percent this time last year), with revenues reaching $42.14 billion.

Since she launched her Fenty Beauty and Savage X Fenty collections, the former bearing some 40 shades of foundation, and the latter seeking to take market share from established lingerie companies by boosting sizes to include 42H bras and 3X undies, and focusing on a level of authenticity missing from this market, Rihanna “has done nothing less than upend the beauty and lingerie industries,” according to Vogue.

After New York-based brand Monse landed on the receiving end of a copyright infringement lawsuit for posting a photo of Jennifer Lopez in one of its dresses on Instagram in July and on the heels of Versace being sued before that for posting a photo on its account of Lopez wearing an all-over Versace print look to MTV’s Video Music Awards last year, the singer-slash-actress is now facing an infringement suit of her own after she posted a photo of herself and Alex Rodriguez on her heavily-followed Instagram account.