Dippity Don’t Says: August 2025

With one month of summer left, there’s still time to take a vacation, soak up some sun on the beach, and enjoy a warm afternoon in the park. While you’re enjoying the last month of summer, Fashion Reverie has some delicious tea to serve you. We know it’s summer, but instead of iced, we’re serving the tea hot! From lawsuits to unpaid bills, get your cup ready as we pour all the behind-the-scenes drama of fashion.

This top fashion designer has not been paying her employees. Despite items from her brand selling out, it looks like she has been missing payroll, and, as you can imagine, the employees aren’t happy about it. While she’s considered to have one of the best-selling luxury brands in the business right now, she’s sitting on a mound of unpaid payroll and invoices. It sounds like she needs to hire a chief financial officer—and fast.

This top fashion model has been accused of not paying her photographers’ invoices for personal social media projects she’s hired them for. While models would never come out of pocket when being shot for magazines or campaigns, their social media management is a different story. This model is earning a notorious reputation for hiring photographers for her social media posts and never paying their invoices. She might start seeing some of them in small claims court.

This top fashion designer has found herself in a lawsuit for stealing a smaller designer’s work and passing it off as her own. So far, the lawsuit is going in the plaintiff’s favor, although no final verdict has yet been reached. The big designer is likely to pay up. It’s a lesson for these more established fashion houses not to steal from smaller creatives.

This party-boy creative director has left his luxury brand in shambles due to poor management. However, because his designs were critically praised, the investment arm of this luxury conglomerate has decided to bail the brand out of debt. Word on the street is that this creative director’s drug habits are getting bad, and that’s why the brand is struggling. Hopefully, they can get him into rehab and back on track.

— Mr. Dippity Don’t