The field of fashion and beauty law is new. It is a field that embraces the legal substance of style, including the issues that might arise throughout the life of a garment, starting with the designer’s original idea and continuing all the way to the consumer’ closet. In addition to its central focus on apparel and accessories, fashion law includes related areas such as textile production, modeling, media, and the beauty and fragrance industries.
Creating solutions for you
We strive to match the ambition, determination, and creativity of our clients in fashion and work with them to grow. They rely on us for our ability to help them meet their long-term aspirations, safeguard their success, and maintain it for the future. the attorneys in our Fashion practice have the experience to handle virtually every kind of legal matter, combined with a knowledge and understanding of the unique business issues faced by fashion industry companies in today’s local and global marketplace. Just consider the following examples:
- Help protect a fashion law client’s intellectual property, such as trademarking the client’s logo or filing a patent application on a particular garment feature that the client invented.
- Go after an infringing party who is close copying the client’s new line of dresses.
- Draft licensing agreements on behalf of a client who wants to license a new line of accessories to other companies.
- Draft vendor agreements or retailer agreements on behalf of a client who wants to get a line of perfumes into independent stores.
- Draft import-export agreements with foreign parties or be asked to research relevant laws regarding importing or exporting garments.
- Assist the client with obtaining financing and draft up relevant documents.
- Research various governmental regulations, including consumer safety issues and environmental laws.
- assist with employment agreements, non-compete agreements, or freelance contracts for designers, models, or other parties whom the client wants to employ.
Zinat Jahanshah; The First Iranian Fashion Designer
Zinat JahanShah was the daughter of a colonel in the Pahlavi War Ministry. She immigrated to Switzerland after her marriage. There, he studied sewing for almost a year and then moved to the fashion world of Paris to learn design and the art of dressmaking from Pierre Ballman. Pierre Ballman was a famous French designer.
Zinat Jahan Shah returned to Iran in 1931 and set up a tailor shop and boutique in the Amirieh neighborhood of Tehran. She was one of the famous female designers in Iran. Many rich people entrust their clothing design to her. Therefore, little by little clothing design became more and more popular in Iran.
