Felicia Caponigri: Who Owns Fashion Heritage?, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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Who really owns fashion heritage - the brands that create it, the museums that collect it, or the public that buys and wears it?

Attorney and academic Felicia Caponigri seeks answers to this question by exploring the fashion industry's negotiation of contracts, applications for trademark rights, approach to copyright protection, and even the classification of a historic shoe as cultural property.

Building on research undertaken in fashion brand archives, in museum archives, and on interviews and conversations with designers, in-house counsels, and museum curators, Felicia Caponigri shows how fashion brands' use of property rights shapes our understanding of fashion's cultural value. Who Own's Fahion Heritage? also explores how legal decisions and definitions can dictate which garments lie hidden in the archives of fashion brands, what is displayed in museum exhibitions and preserved in museum collections, which designs are referenced and reissued as part of contemporary collections, and which are resold as vintage fashion.

Case studies include an overview of museums' ethical duties and obligations including in the Kim Kardashian / Marilyn Monroe case, the perils of naming and shaming as seen in the Dolce & Gabbana / Diet Prada case, the legal importance of the public domain and cultural exchange among diverse communities, the value of resale platforms' authentication and restoration policies, legal rights that prohibit uses of brands' trademarks and legal doctrines that provide avenues for the public to fairly use them.