Ivanka Trump shutters namesake fashion brand

Ivanka Trump announced Tuesday, July 24, that she is closing her namesake women's fashion brand after 11 years, on the heels of another major retail group dropping the controversial line Trump wore apparel from her brand on the presidential campaign trail and sales rose in 2016 Both responses in turn resulted in allegations of conflict of interest by President Trump and Conway and unfair advantage for the brand.

Political boycott group Grab Your Wallet began protesting the group and other Trump family brands in October 2016 Ivanka Trump founded the company in 2007 with the launch of a fine jewelry collection; footwear, handbags and apparel followed in successive years In 2017, Ben and Chris Ospital, the brother-sister owners of San Francisco's Modern Appeal Clothing boutiques, sued the brand for unfair business practices, alleging "Unfair advantage that defendant Ivanka Trump Marks has gained from Donald J.

Trump being the President of the United States and from Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared, working for the President." Shuttering the Ivanka brand is "Something that Ivanka Trump should have done before ever stepping foot in the White House," Lieberman said. . Source