A Food & Fashion Law Dinner Party: The Expressive Elements of Food & Fashion Heritage and Legal Protections for Food & Fashion between Trademark Law and Geographical Indications

A Fashion Law Dinner Party with Fashion by Felicia by Felicia Caponigri

Episode notes

In the first Fashion Law Dinner Party of 2025, inspired by your New Year's resolutions related to food, we concentrate on the heritage and legal aspects of food and fashion collaborations. How can a fashion brand identity’s match a food product? Can trademark rights in a fashion logo applied to leather goods, and clothing, be expanded to food products as a new category of goods? What about place and a brand’s heritage - are there links to certain territories that can help communicate the authenticity of a fashion brand’s food products to consumers? The dinner party conversation starts with our host, Felicia Caponigri, like any true Italian-American woman, talking to her mother, Lisa Caponigri, the author of two best-selling cookbooks "Whatever Happened to Sunday Dinner?" and "This is Sunday Dinner". This conversation highlights how food, like fas ... 

 ...  Read more
Keywords
fashion heritageIP lawintellectual propertyculturetrademarksbrand heritagefashion businessfashion, business and lawheritagebusiness lawcorporate fashion lawRalph Laurenferragamofood and fashionlaw of food and fashiongeographical indicationsfood and fashion collaborationsChanelSunday DinnerParmigiano ReggianoBrie Cheese Descriptive and Generic TermsFood TrademarksOrigin of Craft and Industrial ProductsEU RegulationsWine and FashionRalph's CoffeeRalph's Burger