TAG ARCHIVES: PRADA
China’s Luxury Obsession is the New Hinderance to Child Birth
303 days ago - Vanity CoutureChina’s one child policy is well known and widely criticised. I have a very close friend who once told me that her parents treated her badly because she is a girl and not a boy. Apparently they could not afford an abortion and was stuck with a daughter under the one child policy. She turned … Read More
Legal Wranglings in Fashion: Can’t We all Just Get Along?
336 days ago - The Fashion LawyerOver the last couple weeks there have been a few fashion law developments. In this exciting profession, money woes and litigation never end, for some reason. We simply can’t seem to all get along! LV v Warner Bros Louis Vuitton recently lost its case against Warner Bros for the use of a fake LV in … Read More
Dumb Stuff People in Fashion Says: Lady Gaga and Prada’s CEO
351 days ago - Vanity CoutureThis post is called “Dumb Shit” because seriously, sometimes I wonder WTF were these people thinking. Ok, so straight into it! Lady Gaga Maybe we should gag the Lady. No really, why is she so obsessed with buying fake goods. On a previous trip to Hong Kong she tweeted that she could buy a fake … Read More
Fashion law in the news: The round-up
416 days ago - The Fashion LawyerLast week was a depressing week in Asia. Protesting garment workers were beaten in Cambodia. The workers were striking for higher wages and better working conditions. It was reported that at least 3 women were badly hurt. This is the ugly side of the business of fashion. Our prayers are with the workers who got hurt. … Read More
We Love Vitri!
475 days ago - The Line UpHey fashionistas, meet Dewi Savitri Reni, but everyone calls her Vitri. She is an Indonesian lawyer and Fulbright scholar, who completed her LLM at UC Berkeley. I sat down with Vitri, who I must confess is a great friend of mine, and gave me the pearls I wore on my wedding day, to discuss fashion … Read More