Authentic Fakes in Fashion Practice? A Conversation with Abigail Glaum-Lathbury about Conceptual Fashion and its Critical Methodology

What would dupes, authentic fakes, or conceptual fashion that riffs on trademarks and their messages be without the designers who make and create this fashion? In Part II of this Fashion Law Dinner Party we speak with Professor Abigail Glaum-Lathbury from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago about her Project G.U.C.C.I - the Genuine Unauthorized Clothing Clone Institute. “[A] visual primer into copyright and intellectual property law and illustrate systems of exclusion and hegemony.”, Project G.U.C.C.I serves as a starting point for a broader, unvarnished conversation about the fashion system, its preoccupation with money, and a healthy skepticism for how brands are deploying their IP rights and using the law to condition fashion industry stakeholders and consumers.