Annual Fashion Law Seminar – 12th October - Ten Dominion Street, London, EC2M 2EE
Published: 23 September, 2011
This year our seminar will help you avoid the problems which can arise when
recruiting. At the same time we turn to the online world in terms of how you can both
maximise sales and minimise risks and engage with the customers of tomorrow.
In our annual fashion law seminar our panel of experts will address:
• Following A&F’s lead? How to recruit bright, young things safely
Improper recruitment can land you in hot water. Are your recruitment advertisements legal? What are the questions which you can and cannot ask at interview? What to do about restrictive covenants.
• Your Brand Online. Engage today with the customers of tomorrow
Giorgio Olivari and Nick Rothwell of Bluwspace Creative Studio will explain how to
leverage the possibilities of the digital world to stimulate the conversation between
brands and the new generation of future customers.
• Online Fashion – maximising sales and minimising risks
How do you legally maximise traffic to your website? What are the ways in which
you can combat counterfeits? Is pay per click legal? How to deal with domain
name hijacking.
Chair: Paul Alger, director of international affairs at UK Fashion & Textile Association
Speakers: Joanna Chatterton - Employment law partner at Fox Williams
Giorgio Olivari and Nick Rothwell of Bluwspace Creative Studio
Simon Bennett - Commerce and Technology partner at Fox Williams
Date: 12 October 2011
Venue: Ten Dominion Street, London, EC2M 2EE
Time: Registration 6.00pm
Presentations and Q&A from 6.30 to 7.30pm
Reception from 7.30 to 8.30pm
Seminar
Wednesday 12 October 2011
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Paul Alger, UK Fashion & Textile Association
tel: 020 7843 9460 email: info@ukft.org
UK Fashion and Textile Association sits at the core of the market, working ceaselessly for the
benefit of fashion, clothing and knitting businesses across the UK. UKFT guides and advises its
members on all the essential aspects of running a business and supplying clothing and knitwear to
the global marketplace. Through its export division, UKFT Exports, it gives help and advice on how
to achieve sales in overseas markets.
Giorgio Olivari and NickRothwell, Bluwspace Creative Studio
tel: 020 7253 7714 email: connect@bluwspace.com
Bluwspace is an ideas studio, that creates pleasing digital architecture and amazing content. We
also help create a buzz and drive audiences to your projects using social and online marketing.
Bluwspace touch all aspects of digital output including exploration, planning, online identity, design,
technology, online marketing and ROI helping to create successful digital projects. Their philosophy
is guided by the belief that the digital output we produce should enhance the user(s) (and owner)
experience. The best digital spaces are the result of a synergy between good planning, uncluttered
design philosophy and excellent execution. To this mix they add our unique development
methodology and a desire to delight the client.
Simon Bennett, Fox Williams
tel: 020 7614 2522 email: SBennett@foxwilliams.com
Simon advises clients on a variety of fashion related matters. These have included helping Marks &
Spencer put a cybersquatter in prison for domain name infringement and copying of its website as
well as advising leading French lingerie company Chantelle SA on a trade mark infringement issue.
He has acted for clients in the luxury goods sector and in particular design and copyright infringement
matters related to clothing and apparel, He has advised a designer outlet on trade mark infringement
issues and in relation to Google Adwords on the Internet. He also advises generally on intellectual
property portfolios and strategies to further enhance and protect existing rights and has advised
clients on merchandising of film and TV rights on clothing and accessories. Recently he has helped
Tiffany and other clients on closing down websites that were selling or linking counterfeit products
Joanna Chatterton
tel: 020 7614 2617 email: JChatterton@foxwilliams.com
Joanna has acted for a number of senior executives in the fashion industry assisting them to
negotiate new employment contracts or their terms of departure, her clients have included the
Creative Director of leading luxury shoe brand, the International Sales Director of a luxury knitwear
and accessories business, a senior menswear buyer for a major supermarket chain and for various
finance directors for well known fashion brands. Joanna also advises employers in the industry
particularly with hiring and firing senior staff and drafting their contractual documents.
Stephen Sidkin, Fox Williams
tel: 020 7614 2505 email: SLSidkin@foxwilliams.com
Having worked in menswear, Stephen is an avid believer in the power of brands and is proud to
advise many of Fox Williams’ fashion clients on their commercial law needs. The work undertaken
by him regularly includes advising on agency and distributorship agreements, trade mark licensing,
franchises and competition law. Stephen has been publicly recognised as a leading authority on
distributorship and agency law and, in particular, the Commercial Agents Regulations. He assisted
in developing www.agentlaw.co.uk, Fox Williams’ specialist website dedicated to agency law.
Speaker information
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Places are limited so please register early by registering online at www.fashionlaw.co.uk
or by emailing Brooke Kirby on bkirby@foxwilliams.com
with your full name and company details to secure your free place
