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Umaimah Mendhro
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Fashion Law
Fashion law is a legal field encompassing issues that arise throughout the life of an article of clothing or a fashion accessory. Fundamental issues in fashion law include intellectual property; business and finance, with subcategories ranging from employment law to real estate; international trade and government regulation, including questions of safety and sustainability; and consumer culture and civil rights. Fashion Law also includes related areas such as textile production, modeling, media, and the cosmetics and perfume industries.

Fashion law is a rapidly growing field of practice and study. In a 2008 article, Susan Scafidi, the first U.S. law professor ever to offer a course in Fashion Law and the founder of the Fashion Law Institute, a nonprofit based at Fordham Law School and the world’s first academic center dedicated to the subject,  wrote that fashion law was only then starting to be recognized as a distinct field. Since the launch of the Fashion Law Institute with the support of Diane von Furstenberg and the Council of Fashion Designers of America in 2010, a number of other institutions around the world have offered courses or programs in the area of fashion law. These include the University of Milan, the University of Insubria, the Instituto Brasileiro de Negócios e Direito da Moda, University at Buffalo Law School, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, New York Law School, New York University, Loyola Law School, the Moda Hukuku Enstitusu in Turkey, and the annual Fashion Law Week at Howard University.