Fashion Law Institute

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Fashion Law Institute
Founded2010
Founder Susan Scafidi
TypeEducational
Location
  • New York, United States
Website www.fashionlawinstitute.com

Established in 2010 with the support of Diane von Furstenberg and the Council of Fashion Designers of America, the Fashion Law Institute is the world's first academic center dedicated to legal and business issues pertaining to the fashion industry. [1] [2] [3] [4] The Fashion Law Institute's founder and academic director is Professor Susan Scafidi, who teaches at Fordham Law School. The Fashion Law Institute is a nonprofit organization recognized as a tax-exempt educational organization under the Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. [5]

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Programs

The Fashion Law Institute offers a range of programs aimed at assisting fashion lawyers, law students, design students, and members of the fashion community.

Fashion Law Bootcamp

The Fashion Law Institute's Fashion Law Bootcamp is an annual summer intensive course of fashion law and business. [16] Fashion Law Bootcamp has been held in New York since 2011. The West Coast version of Fashion Law Bootcamp is held in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. [17]

Fashion Law Bootcamp has attracted fashion law influencers from around the world, including Brazil, [18] the U.K., [19] and Puerto Rico. [20] Other Bootcamp alumni include Lara Miller, Bogdan Enica, Sarah Feingold, counsel for Etsy, [21] Mimi Plange, [22] Carrie Hammer, [23] and supermodel Brittany Mason. [24]

Fashion Shows

The Fashion Law Institute held fashion shows at the tents at Lincoln Center during the S/S 2013 and S/S 2014 Mercedes Benz Fashion Weeks in New York City. The shows featured emerging designers and highlighted the Institute's Fashion Law Pop-Up Clinic. [25] [26] The Fashion Law Institute's S/S 2014 show featured the first plus-size designer to show at the Fashion Week tents in Lincoln Center. [27] [28]

Model Advocacy

In 2012, the Fashion Law Institute assisted with the launch of the Model Alliance. [29] Professor Scafidi serves as a member of the Model Alliance board, and attorney Doreen Small, who teaches the Fashion Law Institute's Fashion Modeling Law course, is a member of the Model Alliance's Advisory Board. [30] Professors Scafidi and Small were both involved in the drafting and passage of a New York law giving models under the age of 18 the same legal protections as child performers, [31] [32] and in 2013, the Fashion Law Institute prepared the Council of Fashion Designers of America's guide to this newly enacted law. [33] In 2018, Professors Scafidi and Small were appointed to the founding advisory board of the Humans of Fashion Foundation, an NGO dedicated to addressing sexual harassment and abuse in the fashion industry. [34]

Dolce & Gabbana v. Diet Prada Lawsuit

In 2019, the Fashion Law Institute's Fashion Law Pop-Up Clinic became defense counsel for Diet Prada in a defamation lawsuit filed in Italy by Dolce & Gabbana. [35] The main predicate of the lawsuit was Diet Prada's reposting of anti-Asian statements made by the brand's co-founder Stefano Gabbana, who described China as "the country of [5 poop emoji]" and "China Ignorant Dirty Smelling Mafia." [36]

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