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The lack of intellectual property in the american fashion industry

and the key question at the center of debate is fashion art and should it be protected as such in the eyes of the law.

Mckenzie Harris

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Foutain by Marcel Duchamp Photograph by Alfred Stieglitz Exemplifies Duchamps theory of readymades that chan ged the definition of art.

Foutain by Marcel Duchamp The orginal foutain was lost, so the peices on display are copies.

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Fountain (After Marcel Duchamp) Sherrie Levine, 1991”MashUp: The Birth of Modern Culture” at Vancouver Art Gallery

Fractured Fountain (Not Duchamp Fountain 1917) Mike Bidlo, 2015. Courtesy of Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, New York.

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L.H.O.O.Q. Marcel Duchamp 1919 One of the most famous derrivate works

The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Green Box) Marcel Duchamp 1934 Duchamp published this collection of 94 documents to explain some of his thinking and to show some of the preliminary works relating to The Large Glass. The notes were left loose so that their relationships for the reader would be determined by chance

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Penn State flyer for an intellectual property symposium that promoted Louis Vuitton to send a Cease and Disist to the Law school.

A copy of the response the Law school sent to LVMH, shutting down their claims and inviting them to attend the event to further their legal knowledge.

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Copyright symbol with a lock and watermark. “[C]opyright protection extends to original works of authorship fixed in any tangible medium.”

Title 17, section 102 of usc

Copyleft symbol Copyleft is the practice of offering people the right to freely distribute copies and modified versions of a work with the stipulation that the same rights be preserved in derivative works down the line. the theory of american intellectual property for fashion

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COPYRIGHT © STOCKPHOTOS.COM COPYRIGHT © DEPOSIT PHOTOS

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Virgil Abloh in front of his work derrived from Duchamp. He uses Duchamps theory to justify his derrative works.

Abloh giving his speech at Harvard which he states that he limits himself to changing an object 3% from when he 15

Off-white’s campaign inspired by knock-offs. Ironic because his bags are widely knocked off.

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Referencing the knock off handbags seen on the streets of new york.

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Abloh’s personal design theory and what he calls the shortcuts for sucess.

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Flyer for Vigil Abloh’s Harvard lecture.

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Abloh’s Readymades vs The orginal by Duchamp 20

OFF-WHITE’s 2017 Fall/Winter Collection 21

Left: Balenciaga AW17/ Right: Off White ss18 22

Top: Emerging Designer and prospective Hire at Offwhite Bottom: Off-White

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Left: Alexander Mcqueen Right: Off-White SS18

Top: Philip Lim Bottom: Off-White SS18 25

Chistopher Kane First 26

Moschino Second 27

Celine Resort 2016

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Mara Hoffman Spring/Summer 2018 29

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Piet Mondrian ohne titel (3 works) 34

Yves Saint Laurent Mondrian Dress 1966 35

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Mondrian dresses

by Yves St Laurent (1966) Fashion poised as art.

Costume Design by Kasmir Malevich Another source of inspiration for YSL’s mondrian collection 37

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Joseph Cornell (American, 190372) Untitled, 1931 Reproduced under the rubric “the pulse of fashion” Cornell’s collage was the embodiment of women as garment and of the sewing machine as creative enterprise.

Furturism Manifesto by Marinetti The furturists used clothing as a medium of art 39

Crali- Project for a dress. 1932 Futurist design depicting fashion as art. Also mixed with the cubist movement.

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Illustrations by Balla.

Futurist Clothes had to: main qualities became aggressiveness, “to increase the flexibility of the body and to favor its surge to fight” and dynamism, “to inspire the love of danger, of speed and assault and the hatred of peace and immobility”

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CFDA Design Manifesto 2011.

Shows the CFDA’s support for the proposed changes to the 42

Anna Sui guests at her Spring 2008 runway show were gifted this hysterical shirt she had made. The t-shirts were printed with an old western-style “Wanted” poster on them that featured a portrait of Don Wong and Jin Sook Chang, the deeply religious founders of Forever21, depicted as “Don Cassidy and the Sundance Jin.” Features Bible verse John 20:15 “THOU SHALT NOT STEAL”.

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Charles James as artist and sculptor.

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Charles James was displayed in an exhibit at the met in 2014. His works were regared as artistic masterpeices.

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Carolyn Bessette Kennedy’s wedding dress by Narcisco Rodriguez It become one of the most copied designs worldwide. Rodriguez meantioned this dress in his testimony.

A mannequin wears a copy of the wedding dress worn by Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy 47

Balmain Spring 2015Givenchy Haute Couture 1997 by Alexander McQueen 48

Sandy Liang Calls Out Forever 21 for Plagiarism: “Are You Proud to Rip Off Young Designers?”

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The garmets in the landmark case of Star athletica v. Varsity brands 50

Gucci has been in the center of many lawsuits claimimng they copied from various designers or that designers mimicted them.

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In the words of...

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