About

Fashion by Felicia, LLC​

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Design, defined as the union of form and function, increasingly pervades all aspects of our lives. [Fashion] design, [industrial] design, [museum exhibition] design provide just a few examples. Today, design is increasingly tied to heritage, both intangible and tangible. Heritage can be understood as [brand] heritage, [cultural] heritage, or [world] heritage, ​to name a few categories. Connections between design and heritage are framed by the law.  While new legal fields such as [fashion] law, [luxury] law, and even [design] law, have developed to address the unique needs of the fashion and luxury industries, [intellectual property] law and [business] law, including contracts and licensing, provide foundational legal rules for design activities. As design meets heritage, [cultural heritage] law ​also provides important guidance for duties and obligations of preservation and valorization, collaborations between cultural institutions, brands, and communities, and activities held within cultural sites, among other initiatives. ​

Fashion by Felicia, LLC defines fashion broadly to include designs and social phenomena accepted by members of communities for variously identifiable periods of time which are also indicative of identity and the construction of culture (building on the work of Tortora, Steele, Barsotti, and Loschek).  Fashion by Felicia, LLC facilitates fashion and luxury brands' heritage initiatives; supports provenance research for heritage brands and cultural institutions; and engages with academics  researching law, design and heritage issues, with a particular focus on academic dialogue between Italy and the U.S.  You can listen to A Fashion Law Dinner Party podcast with Fashion by Felicia on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. 

FELICIA CAPONIGRI​, FOUNDER, 

FASHION BY FELICIA, LLC

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