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Fashion icon Louis Vuitton is aiming to manufacture thousands of face masks to help help workers battling the coronavirus.

Taiwanese-Canadian model-actor Godfrey Gao has died after suffering an apparent heart attack while on set in China. Gao was filming a sports reality show in the eastern Chinese city of Ningbo on Wednesday when he died. His agency, JetStar Entertainment, confirmed his death on its official Facebook page. The 35-year-old was filming “Chase Me,” a Chinese variety series, when he...

Bulgari owner LVMH has reached a deal to buy Tiffany & Co. at $135 a share in cash, or $16.3 billion, according to sources familiar with the matter. The boards of the luxury firms have been discussing a potential deal since last month, and will meet on Sunday to approve the deal, sources tell CNBC’s David Faber. An agreement could...

Rihanna is partnering with LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton to launch a new fashion label. The pop star, born Robyn Rihanna Fenty, announced Friday that a new line called Fenty will debut this spring and will be based in Paris.

Instagram is failing to clamp down on the abuse of its platform by groups of organized criminals promoting counterfeit luxury products including shoes, handbags, clothes and sunglasses, according to research by analytics firm Ghost Data. The research, seen exclusively by NBC News, shows that the number of accounts involved in counterfeiting activities linked to brands including Gucci, Chanel, Balenciaga, Louis...

Dongyuan Li’s business was called “You Win USA,” and authorities say she coached pregnant Chinese women on how to get into the United States to deliver babies who would automatically enjoy all the benefits of American citizenship. Over two years, the now-41-year-old raked in millions through her business, where mothers-to-be paid between $40,000 and $80,000 each to come to Irvine,...

A U.S. federal narcotics agent known for his expensive tastes and high-profile drug seizures has been implicated in a multimillion-dollar money-laundering conspiracy that involved the very cartel criminals he was charged with fighting in Colombia.

Glass could be seen on surveillance camera flying everywhere inside Perella Jewelers in Melrose. Somebody tried to break-in Friday morning but broken glass is all the damage they could do. The owner had put a special film on the windows after a previous robbery so the entire pane wouldn’t shatter. “It was just a nightmare,” said owner Paul Perella. “Right...

Counterfeit merchandise was seized from three businesses during a police raid in Chelsea, Massachusetts. The raid was part of a nationwide anti-counterfeiting effort to identify manufacturers, distributors and retailers of counterfeit products. It happened late last month and targeted three businesses on Broadway that were selling “knock-off” merchandise made to resemble high-end designer products. The targeted businesses were: Fiesta Fashion...

Retailers appear to have the odds in their favor this holiday season, with record-low unemployment across the U.S., strong consumer confidence and building sales momentum so far in 2018. “We think most retailers will have a good holiday season if they have a distinctive value proposition,” Rod Sides, vice chairman of Deloitte’s U.S. retail and distribution practice, told CNBC. “We...

Kim Kardashian is back in Paris, a year and a half after she was robbed at gunpoint at a hotel in the city. The 37-year-old “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” star was photographed in the French capital with husband Kanye West, sister Kylie Jenner and her boyfriend Travis Scott on Thursday. Dressed in a bright blue belted shirt dress and...

A Michigan man escaped with his life after a would-be robber fired three shots at him after demanding his Louis Vuitton bag. Jerad Kluting refused to hand over his designer tote.

A Michigan man said he “worked very hard” to buy his $1,700 Louis Vuitton bag, so much so that he refused to give it up when an armed robber demanded the pricey possession. Jerad Kluting told WOOD TV8 a man approached him Monday evening while walking in Holland Township, outside of Grand Rapids. “In one motion,” Kluting said, the man...

The student group Berkeley Patriot on Saturday informed UC Berkeley that Free Speech Week has been canceled, but event headliner Milo Yiannopoulos doubled down on his plans to come to the campus.

Actor Daniel Radcliffe has come to the aid of a man who was mugged by moped-riding attackers in London. Former police officer David Videcette told the Evening Standard newspaper that two moped riders attacked a man just off the upmarket King’s Road in west London, slashing him across the face and making off with a Louis Vuitton bag. He said...

Authorities have cuffed a man charged with stealing Grammy winner John Legend’s Louis Vuitton bag containing $25,000 Cartier cufflinks from an airport luggage cart in New York.

Katrina Williams wanted a safer alternative to smoking, and e-cigarettes seemed to be the answer until the day one exploded in her pocket as she drove home from a beauty salon. “It was like a firecracker” as it seared third-degree burns in her leg, blasted through her charred pants and stuck in the dashboard, the New Yorker said. That was...

Grammy-nominated singer Sia and her filmmaker-husband, Erik Anders Lang, are separating. In a statement released through a spokesperson Wednesday, Sia and Lang said “after much soul searching and consideration we have made the decision to separate as a couple.”