Well, that's a bummer.

• By Tyler McCall
  Mar 5, 2014

Because someone has to do the paperwork behind all that creativity, Los Angeles will soon boast its very own breeding ground for fashion-focused lawyers.

• By Fashionista
  Nov 1, 2013

Tyra Banks is seeking an injunction that will ban several wig companies from using her image to sell products, as well as a whopping $10 million in damages--and she's using her IMDB profile to do it.

• By Alyssa Vingan Klein
  Oct 2, 2013

Proof that not all press is good press: The CEO of California cool-girl brand Wildfox has been accused of unlawful sex with a minor (among other things) whom he'd allegedly promised a modeling contract. And it only gets (allegedly) worse from there.

• By Nora Crotty
  Aug 30, 2013

Looking to buy a shirt bearing Rihanna's likeness? You'll have to shop her fan site from now on. Just over two months after filing a $5 million suit in the U.K. against high street giant Topshop for selling a tank top with her unauthorized photo on it, the popstar has come out the victor.

• By Nora Crotty
  Jul 31, 2013

Rumors were circulating Tuesday, based on a report in French business magazine Challenges, that Balenciaga was suing its former creative director Nicolas Ghesquière over negative comments he made about the company in an interview with new magazine System. Turns out the rumors were true.

• By Dhani Mau
  Jun 20, 2013

Following last week's rumors that Nicolas Ghesquière would be joining LVMH as Marc Jacobs' replacement at Louis Vuitton, comes more juicy news regarding the former Balenciaga creative director.

• By Dhani Mau
  Jun 18, 2013

Nope, the Gucci vs. Guess battle still isn't over.

• By Dhani Mau
  Jun 17, 2013

The final verdict is not yet in on whether or not LVMH came into its 22.6% Hermès stake using secretive, illegal methods in an attempt to take over the competing French luxury brand. However, AMF, the French market authority that has been investigating the case, has proposed its recommended sentence.

• By Dhani Mau
  Jun 3, 2013

We still don't know what the fates of Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana will be following their tax evasion trial in Milan. But if the prosecutor gets his way, the trial will end in jail time for all involved, WWD is reporting.

• By Dhani Mau
  May 29, 2013

Former Prada employee Rina Bovrisse's four-year-long legal battle with Prada Japan over alleged sexual harassment and discrimination has come back into the news recently, when Prada countersued Bovrisse for damaging its image, and a Change.org petition was launched to persuade Prada to drop the countersuit. Now, the United Nations has weighed in.

• By Dhani Mau
  May 24, 2013

Gucci may have won round one of its trademark case against Guess over a diamond-patterned G logo that bore a striking resemblance to a Gucci pattern; but round two has gone to Guess.

• By Dhani Mau
  May 6, 2013

If at first you don't succeed... A bill proposing jail time or a stiff fine for purchasing counterfeit goods originally proposed in 2011 is getting a new push by New York councilwoman Margaret Chin.

• By Dhani Mau
  Apr 9, 2013

Expect the John Galliano vs. Dior labor dispute case to drag on for quite a while. In the latest development, the suit is moving to a French appeals court because the two sides are still splitting hairs over whether the case should be heard in a labor court, or a commercial court. That's right--there's yet to be a single argument heard.

• By Cheryl Wischhover
  Mar 14, 2013

The Kardashian sisters may need to put their well-coiffed heads together and come up with a new name for their recently launched cosmetics range, Khroma. Following a lawsuit filed in January, a judge just ruled that the brand can't use the name because it is too similar to another cosmetics brand, Kroma (no 'H').

• By Cheryl Wischhover
  Mar 13, 2013

Though the legal system is starting to make waves in preventing the production of counterfeit designer goods, it definitely has a ways to go. In Los Angeles last month, U.S. Customs and Border Protection seized 1,500 counterfeit Hermes handbags totaling $14.1 million in value.

• By Dhani Mau
  Mar 7, 2013

Not only is John Galliano supposedly plotting his comeback (with the support of Oscar de la Renta and Dolce & Gabbana, no less), but he may also be seeking damages from his former employer.

• By Hayley Phelan
  Feb 4, 2013

Macy's, Amazon, Sears, and Leon Max, were doing their part to save the planet when, a few years ago, they made an effort to sell products labeled as being made with more eco-friendly bamboo textiles--except that, as far as the Federal Trade Commission is concerned, they weren't made of bamboo at all. They were made of rayon.

• By Hayley Phelan
  Jan 7, 2013

At least one of 2012's biggest fashion beefs has already been laid to rest in 2013. Tory and Chris Burch have reached an agreement, putting an end to a messy, drawn-out lawsuit.

• By Hayley Phelan
  Jan 2, 2013

Dov Charney is headed back to court--this time for allegedly choking a store employee and rubbing his face in dirt, the LA Times is reporting.

• By Hayley Phelan
  Dec 6, 2012

It's been a few weeks since we tuned into the ongoing legal battle between Chris and Tory Burch, but that doesn't mean it's all blown over. Quite the contrary--the list of accusations in the case is only growing longer.

• By Hayley Phelan
  Dec 5, 2012

Christian Louboutin has a reason to celebrate just in time for Fashion Week--and not just because his namesake shoes will undoubtedly be flooding th

• By Nora Crotty
  Sep 5, 2012

The legal battle between Hermès and its unwelcome investor, LVMH, is getting uglier. Hermès is suing LVMH for "insider trading and manipulating stock prices," according to WWD.

• By Cheryl Wischhover
  Sep 4, 2012