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Why Does the Fashion Industry Protect Alleged Sex Offenders Over Models?
Last month, clothing retailers American Apparel and Aldo fired fashion photographers Terry Richardson and Dov Charney for sexually harassing models. Several models have spoken out about their...
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Is There A Legal Way to Offer Fast Fashion to the Masses?
I’m just going to cut to the chase: I hate Forever 21. Don’t get me wrong, I spent plenty of my parents’ money there on a seasonal basis when I was a teen, but by the time I was 17 I had completely...
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Censorship in Fashion: Where Did All the Controversial Ads Go?
When it comes to marketing, they say that sex sells. That may have been true ten years ago when retailers like Abercrombie & Fitch, Calvin Klein, and United States of Benetton ruled the fashion...
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Barneys Gets Busted: The Cost of Racial Profiling in Retail
On Monday, luxury department store Barneys New York made a $525,000 settlement in response to a racial profiling investigation by the State of New York. Nineteen-year-old Queens resident Trayon...
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Can Congress Regulate What a “Real” Ad is?
Last week, online retailer Modcloth became the first company to take the Heroes of Advertising Pledge “to do [its] best not to change the shape, size, proportion, color and/or remove/enhance the...
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The Votes Are In: Lena Dunham Wins Most Controversial Emmy Dress
Along with the two consecutive award shows this week came two red carpets. Each carpet brought a lot of interesting fashion choices, from Katy Perry’s tribute to Britney Spears to Kim Kardashian’s...
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Obama’s Tan Suit Proves He Has Given Up
By now you’ve probably heard about the unusual-colored suit President Obama wore to a press conference last week. Everyone seemed to have something to say about it. But as unflattering as the suit...
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New York Fashion Week Still Doesn’t Promote Diversity
As New York Fashion Week draws to a close and all of the celebrities, bloggers, and street style photographers clear from Lincoln Center, it appears that there is the same unsolved issue every season:...
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Cut Urban Outfitters Some Slack, Mistakes Happen
I recently wrote about how fashion ads are becoming less and less controversial. But now I think I know where all the controversy went in today’s retail strategy: it has shifted to the product itself....
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Controversial T-Shirt News: Store Sells Shirt Downplaying Rape
So this week in controversial t-shirt news, a market in the Philippines received a bit of backlash via Twitter over a top encouraging rape culture. Supermall, the major department store chain with...
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Is Cultural Appropriation in Fashion Ever Okay?
As a “melting pot,” Americans observe and consume different aspects of various cultures every day. In Western culture, it has become the norm to borrow foods, traditions, and clothing from other racial...
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Is the Fashion Industry Ready to Forgive Anti-Semite John Galliano?
On Monday, Parisian fashion house Maison Martin Margiela announced that industry pariah John Galliano would take over as its new creative director. The former creative director of Dior has been...
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This Week in Fashion Law: Kurdish Jumpsuits and Ghostbusters
A lot has happened in the world of fashion lawsuits and controversial apparel lately. So this week I thought I’d do a roundup of the brands that have come under fire, or even started the fire, over the...
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How Air Jordans and “Sneakerheads” Shifted the Market for Nike
A little over a year ago, my parents were driving me into the city one night because I didn’t feel like taking the train to meet some friends. My then 12-year-old brother said he would come on one...
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Why is Fashion Such an Important Issue for Women in Power?
By now you’ve probably gathered how important I think it is for a person of power to present themselves as far as their sartorial choices go; however, that doesn’t mean I don’t see the inherent double...
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Don’t Ignore the Alexander Wang x H&M Child Labor Video
Another day, another frenzy-inducing H&M designer collaboration. Last week, the long anticipated Alexander Wang x H&M collection hit stores and online. Shoppers lined up nearly 24 hours...
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Your Foolproof Black Friday Guide, Fashion Law Edition
As both a holiday shopper and retail-worker veteran, I’ve experienced Black Friday from inside and out. Despite the fact that I’m not really an active bargain-hunter (I prefer to be surprised by deals...
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NYPD Busts $22 Million Counterfeit Goods Operation
Ah Canal Street; one of the few places in New York where you can score “designer” bags, gold chains, and a bong all for under $1,000. Even this future Intellectual Property lawyer has owned her fair...
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Holiday Gift Guide: How to Authenticate a Designer Handbag
Last week I told you about the $22 million counterfeit operation busted in Queens. So now you might be asking yourself: If getting your “designer” handbags from Canal street is such a big no-no then...
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Dumb Laws Fashion Edition: Hide Your Hoodies
You may have been following along with fellow Law Streeter Marisa Mostek’s Dumbest Laws series, as she goes state by state revealing the most random and outdated laws throughout the country. But this...
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Saks Defends Discrimination Against Transgender Employee
Last month, Saks Fifth Avenue took a page from the book of fellow upscale department store Barneys New York and attempted to justify its discriminative policies. But instead of partaking in racist...
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Can Chanel Sue For Stealing Its Style of Doing Business?
Happy Couture Week, my fellow fashion law-istas! On Tuesday while we were just dodging the Snowmageddon here in New York, Karl Lagerfeld threw a garden party in Paris for Chanel’s Spring ’15 Haute...
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#AskHerMore But What? Feminism, Fashion, and Awards Season
Now that awards season is officially in full swing, it means that red carpet season is upon us as well. And as we watch the red carpet coverage there seems to be only one question that reporters are...
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I Am Charlie, and So Are You: How Terrorism Affects Censorship
They say “Art is what you can get away with,” but how does one know when they’ve crossed the line? That was the essential question at the recent panel discussion “After Charlie: What’s next for art,...
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Why There’s Nothing Legal About “Stealing” Logos
Fashion trend website Refinery29 published an article recently with the headline “The Jeremy Scott Effect: How ‘Stealing’ Logos Can Technically Be Legal.” The second I came across it, I obviously began...
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