Cathy Horyn and Oscar de la Renta may have had the only beef that literally involved beef, but there were a slew of others this year. Fashion people simply could not just let shit slide.
From drawn out legal battles to ironic graffiti wars, click through to rehash 2012′s biggest fashion beefs.
Whitney Port, author/fashion designer/reality star, is looking for a little help from the internet to pay for her show at fashion week. Donating to her includes some interesting rewards like ‘thank you’ tweets. The only problem–well besides the fact that a fashion show ain’t no charity? Whitney Port is supposedly already rich off the $20,000 Read more →
Tearful CEOs, quippy judges, and a no-nonsense, tough-as-nails prosecution lawyer…seriously the Gucci vs. Guess courtroom case couldn’t be juicier if it had been scripted for television.
Things are heating up on our favorite courtroom TV drama in the Gucci vs. Guess legal battle.
The latest in the juicy ongoing court proceedings is testimony from Paul Vando, a former director of men’s product at Marc Fisher Footwear, the company which provides Guess with its footwear–including several of the designs Gucci has named as knockoffs.
The last time we tuned in, Gucci’s lawyer, Louis Ederer, had fingered Marc Fisher as an integral player in the “massive knockoff scheme,” even presenting evidence that the company was sending Gucci fabric samples to Guess’ fabric supplier, with the intent to copy coloring and patterns. Ederer also read aloud emails between Marc Fisher and Guess, which specifically referenced Gucci products spanning from 1995 to 2008. Sounds like they’ve backed Marc Fisher into a corner, right?
