Fashion’s 2026 Legal Calendar: The Cases and Rules to Watch Through 2027
Every fashion law case and regulatory deadline that matters from 2026 to 2027, on one calendar: Crocs v Five Below, the EU ban on…
Textile EPR in the EU: What the Revised Waste Framework Directive Means for Fashion Brands
Every EU country must have a textile extended producer responsibility (EPR) scheme running by 17 April 2028. Once it does, any brand that sells…
The EU Greenwashing Ban Starts 27 September 2026: What Fashion Brands Must Stop Saying
From 27 September 2026, a fashion brand selling to shoppers in the EU can no longer describe a product as “eco-friendly”, “green” or “climate…
How Fashion Brands Die: A Post-Mortem Framework
How fashion brands die: Explore the common failure patterns, warning signs, and autopsy framework for understanding why iconic labels collapse.…
New US Apparel Compliance Rules Take Effect This Month: What Fashion Brands Must Do Now
Two significant compliance deadlines quietly passed in the first two weeks of July 2026, and together they represent one of the more consequential shifts…
Whose Flower Is It Anyway? LV, Molly Tea, and the Fight Over Chinese Heritage
There is a particular kind of irony in a 130 year old French monogram going to war with a four year old Chinese milk…
The EU Just Fined Temu €200 Million. The Clothes in Your Cart Are Part of the Story.
The European Commission does not move quickly. Formal investigations, preliminary findings, rounds of written defence — the machinery of Brussels runs on its own…
Fashion Nova Hit With TCPA Class Action Over Pre-8 AM Marketing Texts
A California shopper got eight Fashion Nova promo texts between 7:24 AM and 7:32 AM. Now she wants every American who got an early-morning…
Amazon Pressed Levi’s and Hanes to Fix Prices at Walmart and Target, New Court Filings Show
California Just Released Proof That Amazon Forced Levi’s and Hanes to Raise Prices at Walmart. The Fashion Industry Should Pay Close Attention. On April…
QVC Filed for Bankruptcy, Saks Is Still in Chapter 11, and LVMH Had Its Worst Quarter in Years: What Is Actually Going On With US Fashion Retail?
On April 17, QVC filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy to cut more than $5 billion in debt. Earlier in the week, LVMH reported its…
Italian Regulators Raided LVMH Over Sephora Kids. Here Is What That Actually Means
On March 27, 2026, Italy’s competition authority opened two formal investigations into LVMH-owned Sephora and Benefit Cosmetics. The charge, essentially, is this: that both…
Trump’s Team Just Filed to Cancel a Chinese Fashion Brand Over Its Name. The Name? DJT
A Hong Kong-based clothing company has been selling women’s fashion for over a decade. High-waist miniskirts, dresses, blouses — nothing particularly controversial. The brand…
CaaStle founder Christine Hunsicker pleads guilty to one of the biggest startup frauds in fashion history
On March 4, 2026, Christine Hunsicker stood in a Manhattan federal courtroom and admitted what prosecutors had spent months unravelling: the “revolutionary” fashion rental…
Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses: When Fashion Tech Becomes a Privacy Nightmare
Something uncomfortable happened on February 27, 2026. Two Swedish newspapers, Svenska Dagbladet and Göteborgs-Posten, published an investigation that made a lot of Ray-Ban Meta…