Fashion weeks have come to a close. If you're a designer, stylist, or fashion lover, you're likely to be buzzing with inspiration. But at what point does taking inspiration cross the line into copying? And what can you do if someone steals your design? We’ve previously covered design rights and using your name as your brand (i.e. trade mark)....
31 Mar 2025
Contracts. What are they? Why are they important? Why should you care? Historically, contracts have got a bad reputation for being time-consuming, hard to understand and costly. Those criticisms are still applicable, but they don’t have to be. Contracts are one of the ways that you can protect your business, your products and safeguard against...
4 Feb 2025
When creating a new business or brand, one of the many issues to be considered is what to call it. For a designer, the most obvious naming choice is to use their own name, or a variant of their own name. It is common practice within the fashion and cosmetics industries for a designer or founder to name the brand after themself, and there can be...
29 Nov 2024
We’ve watched the new collections strut down the runway, but now that fashion week is over, what should designers be thinking about in terms of IP protection? Written by Emma Day (IA trainee) and Harriet Berridge (IA director and fashion lead), Stobbs If you need a recap on designs, Stobbs touched on registered and unregistered designs in a...
9 Oct 2024