Fashion, Law & Business

Our founder Tania Phipps-Rufus decided to set up Fashion, Law & Business in 2013 to address the limited focus and development of the discipline of Fashion Law in the UK and as an extension of her PhD research. Acknowledging the growing focus of Fashion Law in the U.S with dedicated academic centers such as the Fashion Law Institute, when she first embarked on Fashion, Law & Business there existed no academic platform for Fashion Law in the UK. It first started as a meet-up group (2013) to create and connect a community of fashion law enthusiasts and drawing on her years of dedicated experience has now evolved into the U.K destination for Fashion Law with a global perspective – providing a platform that offers commentary on legal cases and topical issues in fashion as well as opportunities to gain deeper insights and training in the field of fashion law through bespoke fashion law courses, and events for those in the fashion and legal communities.