Events
The Emperor’s New Clothes
Welcome to the future of fashion – or at least a profitable parallel universe! Even as the fashion industry has endured a pandemic era characterized by working from home in sweats, we’ve seen dramatic growth in digitized and digital-first fashion for our avatars in online dressing rooms and virtual worlds, fashion-related NFTs (authorized or otherwise), and wearable technology that opens doors to the metaverse in the form of AR and VR. Fashion consumers aren’t likely to go without tangible threads entirely, unlike the emperor in the classic tale, but the possibilities for virtual fashion are endless – as are the related intellectual property and other legal issues.
In keeping with this duality of digital and physical worlds, please join our panel of experts as we convene both online via livestream and in person before a small studio audience, in a space provided courtesy of Diane von Furstenberg in NYC. We are excited to take a step toward the return of in-person events, but please understand that symposium seating is extremely limited and available by confirmed advance reservation only. Attendees must show proof of vaccination to enter and wear masks when not eating, drinking, or speaking on the panel. The livestream of "The Emperor's New Clothes: Digital Fashion, NFTs, Cryptocurrency, and the New Intangibles" is, of course, open to all!
DATE: Friday, November 12, 2021
TIME: 9:30-10:45am EST (New York time)
PLACE: Zoom or IRL (details provided with confirmed registration)
CLE: Attorneys are eligible to receive 1.5 New York State CLE credits, professional practice, transitional and non-transitional
SPEAKERS:
- Gabby Hirata, President and Chief Executive at DVF
- John Maltbie, Director of Civil Enforcement, Intellectual Property at Louis Vuitton North America
- Kristen Trad, Director, Legal & Business Affairs, A+E Networks
- Nikki Edmunds-Ekwueme, Counsel, CLO Virtual Fashion
- Robyn Williams, Co-Chair, Trademark Practice Group, Devlin Law Firm
- Emily Levy, Senior Manager, Global Partnerships, Epic Games
- Erica Carter, Counsel, Legal and Business Affairs, Epic Games
- MODERATOR: Professor Susan Scafidi, Founder & Director, Fashion Law Institute at Fordham
Protected: Inside Out 6 CLE Material
Protected: Silver Bullet CLE Materials
Video: Is your D&I plan legal?
Thank you to our panelists and attendees at our webinar! The complete video is above. If you missed the panel, feel free to watch it here!
ATTORNEY CLE INFORMATION
If you are an attorney seeking continuing legal education credit from New York or a state with New York reciprocity, you have the opportunity to receive CLE credit by watching this panel from our 10th annual symposium, Silver Linings, on demand. Simply email us for the CLE materials link/password, registration link to complete the $65 payment, and the official form to complete. At various points during the session special codes are announced for you to note on the form.
Date: October 9, 2020
Time: 8:45-10:00am
Venue: Zoom
NYS CLE: 1.0 diversity, inclusion, and elimination of bias; 0.5 ethics
Sterling Intentions: Is your diversity & inclusion plan legal?
SPEAKERS:
- Nancy Bishai, General Counsel, APP Group
- Fiona W. Ong, Partner, Shawe Rosenthal LLP
- Dana Sussman, Deputy Commissioner, Policy and Intergovernmental Affairs, New York City Commission on Human Rights
- MODERATOR: Kenya Wiley, Founder and Policy Counsel, Fashion Innovation Alliance
Additional resources suggested by Nancy Bishai:
Diversity and Inclusion in Canada: The Current State
Navigating race in Canadian workplaces A toolkit for diversity and inclusion practitioners
Video: Heirloom Silver: The afterlife of brands
Thank you to our panelists and attendees at our webinar! The complete video is above. If you missed the panel, feel free to watch it here!
ATTORNEY CLE INFORMATION
If you are an attorney seeking continuing legal education credit from New York or a state with New York reciprocity, you have the opportunity to receive CLE credit by watching this panel from our 10th annual symposium, Silver Linings, on demand. Simply email us for the CLE materials link/password, registration link to complete the $65 payment, and the official form to complete. At various points during the session special codes are announced for you to note on the form.
Date: October 2, 2020
Time: 8:45-10:00am
Venue: Zoom
NYS CLE: 1.5 professional practice, transitional & non-transitional
Heirloom Silver: The afterlife of brands
SPEAKERS:
- Angela Byun, Principal, AB WORLD
- Jeffrey Hellman, Vice President and Assistant General Counsel, PVH Corp.
- Colette Stanford, SVP-General Counsel, SPARC Group
- MODERATOR: Professor Susan Scafidi, Founder & Director, Fashion Law Institute at Fordham
Protected: Sterling Intentions CLE Material
Protected: Heirloom Silver CLE Material
Protected: Heirloom Silver CLE Materials
10th Annual Symposium
So, 2020. Every year our annual symposium is the highlight of the fashion law calendar, but as the coronavirus spread last spring, we postponed it and instead offered you the first online panel on fashion and the pandemic – and realized that hundreds more participants were able to join us simultaneously from all over the world.
We now bring you our 10th Annual Symposium, Silver Linings, running for four consecutive Fridays during fashion month and beyond. The pandemic may keep us working from home in loungewear for the moment, but we can still come together as a fashion law community to celebrate, interrogate, and advance the substance of style. YOU are the silver lining of 2020, and we look forward to seeing you online soon!
DATE: September 25 and October 2, 9, and 16, 2020
TIME: 8:45-10:00am New York time
NYS CLE: 6 hours total (see individual panels for details)
PLACE: Zoom webinar
SCHEDULE:
Quicksilver Deals: Tiffany v. LVMH and M&A in a pandemic
September 25, 2020
NYS CLE: 1.5 professional practice, transitional & non-transitional
SPEAKERS
Avery S. Fischer, EVP, GC, & Secretary, Ralph Lauren
Mark Fischer, EVP, GC, & Secretary, PVH
Vincent Fuller II, Associate, Fried Frank
Brien M. Wassner, Partner, Sidley Austin
MODERATOR: Professor Susan Scafidi, Founder & Director, Fashion Law Institute at Fordham
Heirloom Silver: The afterlife of brands
October 2, 2020
NYS CLE: 1.5 professional practice, transitional & non-transitional
SPEAKERS
Angela Byun, Principal, AB WORLD
Jeffrey Hellman, Vice President and Assistant General Counsel, PVH Corp.
Colette Stanford, SVP-General Counsel, SPARC Group
MODERATOR: Professor Susan Scafidi, Founder & Director, Fashion Law Institute at Fordham
If you missed the panel, watch it here on demand.
Sterling Intentions: Is your diversity & inclusion plan legal?
October 9, 2020
NYS CLE: 1.0 diversity, inclusion, and elimination of bias; .5 ethics
SPEAKERS
Nancy Bishai, General Counsel, APP Group
Fiona W. Ong, Partner, Shawe Rosenthal LLP
Dana Sussman, Deputy Commissioner, Policy and Intergovernmental Affairs, New York City Commission on Human Rights
MODERATOR: Kenya Wiley, Founder and Policy Counsel, Fashion Innovation Alliance
If you missed the panel, watch it here on demand.
Silver Bullet? Mask policies, problems, and solutions
October 16, 2020
NYS CLE: 1.0 professional practice, transitional & non-transitional; .5 ethics
SPEAKERS
Ashley Brown, General Counsel, ONE Management
Abrima Erwiah, Co-Founder and President, Studio One Eighty Nine
Elisheva Hirshman, Vice President, Associate General Counsel, Employment & Litigation, PVH Corp.
John Maltbie, Director of Intellectual Property, Civil Enforcement, Louis Vuitton Americas
MODERATOR: Ariele Elia, Assistant Director, Fashion Law Institute at Fordham
If you registered previously for our 10th Annual Symposium, you will receive a separate email. And thank you!
