The Intellectual Property Of Textiles And Fashion From The Medieval Loom To The New York Fashion Week

Rampant global counterfeiting has led the fashion industry to seek ever greater enforcement of its intellectual property IP rights. Yet as this hugely informative book shows this is not new. Fashion designers and entrepreneurs as well as manufacturers and tradespeople in the broader textiles industry from which fashion springs have always struggled to convert existing IP rules to an industry that wasampmdashand isampmdashconfigured by the pressure of intrinsically fleeting consumer tastes and