Is Fashion Law Just Intellectual Property? Six Other Doors Into the Field
IP is one part of fashion law, not all of it. Contracts, trade, privacy, advertising, employment and retail real estate are six other ways…
Sustainable Fashion Startups: Legal Checklist Before You Launch
A sustainable fashion startup sells a promise as well as a product, and the law now tests that promise more closely than it tests…
California Resale Certificates for Clothing Brands and Boutiques: State-by-State Guide
A resale certificate lets a boutique or clothing brand buy stock from a supplier without paying sales tax on it, because the tax gets…
Modeling Jobs: Where to Find Legit Work and the Red Flags to Avoid
The US Bureau of Labor Statistics counted about 4,200 modeling jobs in 2025 and projects a 2 percent decline by 2035. It expects roughly…
What Does a Fashion Designer Do? Daily Work and Legal Basics
A fashion designer creates clothing, footwear and accessories, and the job runs from a rough sketch to a garment on a rail. The US…
What Is a Fashion Law Firm?
A fashion law firm is a law firm that acts for fashion businesses and builds its practice around their problems. No regulator awards the…
Commercial Modeling vs Fashion Modeling: Work, Pay and Contracts
People use “model” as if it describes one job, but commercial modeling and fashion modeling run on different casting criteria, different pay structures, and…
How to Get Into Modeling Without Getting Scammed
Someone stops you on the street, hands you a card, and says you have the look. The FTC has been warning consumers about that…
Copyright Infringement in Fashion: Prints, Photos and Designs
“Copyright infringement” sounds like a single legal question, but fashion actually asks three separate versions of it depending on what got copied. A stolen…
Modeling Digitals: What Agencies Want and Who Owns the Photos
Model Francheska Pujols filed a lawsuit this year against the retailer Rainbow Shops in the New York Supreme Court, claiming the company took photographs…
Fashion Designer Salary: What Designers Earn by Level and City
The median fashion designer in the United States earned $80,960 in May 2025, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but that single figure…
TM vs ® Symbol: When a Fashion Brand Can Use Each (and How to Type Them)
A small superscript letter next to a brand name carries real legal weight, and mixing up which one to use is one of the…
What Does a Fashion Lawyer Do? A Hub for Every Specialism
What does a fashion lawyer do? Explore 14 fashion law specialisms, who handles which problem, day-to-day work, and how to become one.…
Fashion Law Internships: How to Actually Land One
Most students searching for a fashion law internship end up on job boards listing generic legal internships that happen to touch a fashion client…
Do You Need a Business License to Sell Clothes Online?
Yes, in almost every case, and selling only online changes far less than most new sellers assume. The confusion usually comes from picturing a…
Freelance Designer Contracts: Five Clauses You Are Missing
Most freelance designers work off a contract template pulled from a Google search years ago, and the gaps in that template rarely surface until…
Word Mark vs. Logo Mark: Why Fashion Brands Trademark the Name and the Design Separately
A fashion brand filing a single trademark application for its name and logo together usually protects less than it thinks. Nike, Adidas and McDonald’s…