French Luxury fashion brand Hermès won a lawsuit Wednesday against digital creator Mason Rothschild for violating a trademark by selling NFT “Meta Birkins.” This was the first trial in history to consider intellectual property infringement by an NFT.
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The legendary fashion designer Paco Rabanne Died at age 88. He was known as a fashion maverick with a futuristic vision and use of unconventional materials and left a big mark in fashion history.
1 week ahead of the official New York Fashion Week schedule, Marc Jacobs unveiled his Fall/Winter 2023 collection. The venue was “Park Avenue Armory” at 643 Park Avenue in the Upper East Side district of New York, the same as when Marc Jacobs held a physical show in February 2020.
New York-based luxury brand Thom Browne has won a trademark infringement lawsuit against Adidas for its ‘three stripes’ trademark. A New York jury gave the final verdict that Thom Browne has never infringed the Adidas trademark.
British fashion designer and Queen of Punk, Vivienne Westwood has died aged 81. The brand officially announced on its Instagram that Vivienne Westwood passed away peacefully, surrounded by her family, at her home in London on Thursday.
With the global pandemic caused by the coronavirus calming down, the World’s Fashion Week has also gradually backed to normal to the physical show from the digital. As usual, each brand’s show will be held in major cities of the country in 2023.
”Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams” exhibition finally arrived in Tokyo, Japan. The event will be held at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT) starting from December 21, 2022, to May 28, 2023. This is a retrospective exhibition that has traveled around the world, starting in Paris, then London, Shanghai, and New York.
The number of companies that are strengthening their sustainable efforts in order to protect the global environment is increasing year by year, and plant-derived “vegan leather” is more known as an environmentally friendly fabric material.
Vegan leather has less impact on the environment than natural leather and synthetic leather, so that is also considered an alternative material to leather for its animal welfare. Among them, It’s “mushroom leather” made from “mushroom” that is currently being adopted by many high-end brands.
On December 6th, Chanel unveiled the 2022-23 Métiers d’Art collection in Dakar, Senegal’s West African capital.
This is the first time that European or US luxury fashion brands have staged a fashion show in sub-Saharan Africa. The venue for the show was the Senegalese capital’s former Palais de Justice (now home to its art Biennale).
Since the covid-19 happened in 2020, many consumers have shifted to online shopping rather than going to physical stores. In the context of this move, a lot of stores tend to close their real stores and hold sales only in their online stores on the black holiday.
What’s more, many stores had already started the Black Friday sale in early November this year, and also the spanning of the holiday discount event is extended over 2 weeks.