Susan Scafidi, founder of Fordham’s Fashion Law Institute, spoke to Business of Fashion about fashion law and the institute she founded.
Fashion law didn’t exist, so I had to create it. There was art law, sports law, entertainment law, health law, banking law — but no field of law dedicated to fashion, which is among the largest industries in the world and one that quite literally touches all of us. Fashion houses and designers had always consulted lawyers about discrete issues, but there were no specialised resources or specific training available to support the industry.
Read Scafidi’s entire interview here.