Dress Codes: Fashioning Intellectual Property

The book explores the social, commercial, legal, and cultural relationship between fashion and its protection through an interdisciplinary approach, addressing the relevance of law, management, sociology of knowledge, art history, fashion theory, socio-economic, and cultural concerns. It critically analyses the social, political, and legal aspects of the fashion and design industries, highlighting the challenges of collaboration, transformation, and design in a commercial and social context. It provides specific insight into design practice, fashion and art, fashion media, merchandising, and retail curation, offering a broader understanding of the relationship between fashion and intellectual property.

Format: Hardback
Length: 224 pages
Publication date: 31 January 2021
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

The book explores the social, commercial, legal, and cultural relationship between fashion and its protection through an interdisciplinary approach to the application of the law. It examines the relevance of the law, the management and sociology of knowledge in the fashion industries, and the interaction with art history and fashion theory, as well as socio-economic and cultural concerns. The study critically analyses the social, political, and legal aspects of the fashion and design industries, addressing the sometimes difficult relationship between fashion and law in a commercial as well as social context. It traces the historical and sociological foundations for fashion and its curation, both as public and personal objects, and takes this through to contemporary practices of collaboration, transformation, and the process of design, which present particular challenges to a traditional intellectual property practice. Through a series of discussions and particular examples, the book provides specific insight into design practice, fashion and art, fashion media, merchandising, and retail curation, towards a more comprehensive understanding of the relationship between fashion and intellectual property. However, the discussion is especially relevant to current and topical commercial and practical tensions in other areas of the creative industries, as it takes the extension of artistic and commercial practice into the productive relationships between fashion and art, music, film, celebrity, and the digital. Therefore, through a thorough examination of the fashion industries, the book allows for a wider insight into the creative industries more broadly speaking.

Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781472470072