A Fashion Law Dinner Party with Fashion by Felicia

Just as fashion is increasingly going digital, so is fashion heritage. Fashion’s past isn’t just available through archives behind closed doors- it can also be just a click away. But making fashion heritage digital may not be easy. Join us for our first and second courses of this fashion law dinner party as we speak to Natalie Nudell, a Professor at FIT, about her creation of the Fashion Calendar...

You might have noticed a word that is increasingly present in commercials, in your inbox, and on your social media feed: iconic. What does iconic mean in fashion? How do brands use iconic and do consumers use iconic in the same way? Can the recognition that a product is “iconic” increase IP rights for brands in the product’s design or name? With Jessica Barber, Calvin Klein’s Historian and Senior...

We end our conversation about the value of archival designs for fashion design and for IP rights in fashion back in New York with Tianni Graham, the Senior Archivist for Thom Browne. We talk about how the Thom Browne archive and design team work together, the archive’s role in the celebrations for Thom Browne’s 20th anniversary, and about Tianni’s own career path, including her time at the Metropo...

During the second course, we travel to Italy and London to delve deeper into the preservation of archival items by fashion brands, including fashion designs and other corporate ephemera. Our first guest Stefania Ricci, the Director of the Museo Ferragamo and of the Fondazione Ferragamo, gives us a behind the scenes view of Ferragamo archive, its uses by the brand and its purpose for the public. Ma...

Do archival designs increase a fashion brand’s market share? Are archival designs more authentic than other, newer designs for consumers? What challenges and opportunities do archival designs present for brands’ trademarks, their protection, and their scope? Over the first course of this Fashion Law Dinner Party, we’ll explore how one emerging luxury designer in New York, Sarah Mae Ettinger of MAE...

Welcome to A Fashion Law Dinner Party ! In this episode Felicia Caponigri explains the genesis of the podcast and the inspiration for discussing topics in the fashion design, heritage, and legal space.