Fashion Meets Law: Insights from Sweden’s Inaugural Fashion Law Conference – Department of Law

The conference, with the title “Undressing the Law: The Future of Fashion and Innovative Business Models” had as its ambition to create a common platform for lawyers working with or interesting in the fashion industry and the fashion industry in its different expressions. 

The conference succeeded in creating an interdisciplinary environment due to the mixed background of the audience but also of the speakers and panels. A particular focus was placed on the implications of AI in the creative processes and how this impacts the protection of fashion as well as of the fashion industry’s business models. Upcycling and sustainability both as the industry’s own objectives as well as of main points of reference for the current and future regulation of the fashion industry on a national and EU level, and its relation to requirements of the intellectual property system were discussed and concrete examples illustrating both the potential and challenges were debated in the panels. 

Designers, creative directors, sustainability experts, researchers, lawyers exchanged ideas on the current challenges faced by the fashion industry and the ways in which we can boost the industry in the future. 

According to professor Frantzeska Papadopoulou:  

“We hope that this event was the first one of many to come, and the first step in gathering players from the legal and fashion community, exploring ways of working together towards a more sustainable, innovative and collaborative future.”

Sponsors and partners

The conference was generously sponsored by the Cassel Foundation, hosted in the premises of Vinge and supported by the Association of Swedish Fashion Brands. 

Conference curators were prof. Frantzeska Papadopoulou Skarp, Stockholm university, and Creative Director Annika Berner. 

Last updated: June 12, 2024

Source: Department of Law