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Consumer Protection Law

May 29, 2026

California fashion compliance enters a new era

California is turning fashion compliance into full-spectrum accountability, binding brands to labor, climate and supply-chain impacts while sharply raising the bar for sustainability claims.

Warren Koshofer

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Michelman Robinson

Phone: (212) 730-7700

Email: wkoshofer@mrllp.com

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California fashion compliance enters a new era
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California's fashion industry is operating in a markedly different regulatory environment, one in which compliance obligations extend well beyond traditional employment policies or factory audits. Increasingly, regulators are demanding visibility into labor practices, environmental impacts, supply-chain operations and sustainability claims at a level of detail that many companies were neither structured nor prepared to provide.

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