Fashion can define who you are or want to be – and, in creating an international language understood by millions of people, it has a powerful voice.
As an industry, it is unique. There’s its seasonality and fast-moving product life cycles; its critical selling periods, commercial partnerships and corporate ventures, and its resourcing issues.
Today we’re seeing the rise of fashion on-line and the challenges for brands and retailers who have a combination of shops and an on-line presence. We’ve seen successful brands undermined by counterfeit attacks. And we’re also seeing the rise of the influencer who can create significant sales with a social media post.
We provide legal advice for businesses across the fashion spectrum: from designers through brands and their intermediaries to wholesalers and retailers – we have clients at all stages of the supply chain.
Our Fashion Law Group publishes Fashion Focus, a regular newsletter, sends tweets from @FashionlawyerGB, and holds seminars providing updates and advice on relevant legal developments appropriate to all aspects of the industry. We’re members of, and regularly speak at, a variety of trade associations and other bodies operating within the fashion industry.
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We advise a premium fashion brand on global trademark strategy and complex multi-jurisdictional disputes, securing co-existence arrangements and resolving claims with international competitors.
We advised a UK leading retail group on a senior executive restructure amid challenging market conditions.
Advising a heritage British footwear brand on tackling fraudulent websites impersonating its name, securing takedowns and protecting brand integrity through sustained online enforcement.
Advised a luxury fashion brand on a UK agency dispute involving post-termination commission and coordinated cross-border strategy amid parallel proceedings in Australia.
We acted for Pentland Brands Limited on the expansion of its London global headquarters and on related retail and distribution property matters, supporting the group’s long-term UK retail and logistics strategy.
We advised a longstanding luxury fashion brand client on the expiry of a long-term Chinese distribution agreement, including strategic and cross-border considerations.
We are advising a major UK fashion retailer in high profile trade mark dispute concerning the resale and presentation of a major US brand’s vintage goods, raising novel issues of fair use, consumer perception and sustainability.
Advised a luxury fashion brand on its conditions of sale.