Fashion and the Law: The Controversy over Designs' Plagiarism

The law is particularly fundamental in shaping the world of Fashion, mainly for its capacity of protecting the creative process. This often causes controversies and issues related to what can actually be protected under the law and what cannot. Many debates over the years have focused on such a variable, sometimes leaving more doubts than solutions, but most of all leaving designers unprotected while facing one of the most controversial concepts within the Fashion industry: plagiarism.