THE FASHION SCHOOL SUMMER 2016 - FASHION WORKSHOP

Intellectual Property Rights: Navigating Design, Legal and Business Perspectives in Fashion Practice

The Fashion School of Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, USA, with the sponsorship of the Association Partners of (APPS) will offer an international academic one-week workshop for advanced students, educators and industry design professionals at the Kent State University Florence Florence is the ideal location to deeply Campus from the 23rd – 27th May, 2016. “ investigate the visual design, business This one-week course will engage participants and legal perpectives related to in critical discourse on the range of terms, intellectual property in fashion challenges and perspectives surrounding the ” concept of counterfeiting and intellectual This advanced workshop will be led by property rights in fashion. Aimed at designer- J.R. Campbell, Professor & Director of professionals, advanced design students and the Fashion School, and Patricia Kinsella, international faculty teaching in fashion, we will Coordinator of the KSU Florence Fashion be addressing themes related to the use of Program. Support from our industry archives and new media in business to explore: partners has been provided through the

• Inspiration assistance of Dr. Carlo Ceccarelli, • Appropriation General Secretary of the Association • Adaptation Partners of Palazzo Strozzi. We have • Referencing assembled a roster of fashion professionals • Co-creation of the highest level to present on their • Collaboration experiences. • Reproduction • Re-interpretation It is our hope to foster dialogue between • Knock-offs international professionals in the field of • Counterfeiting fashion on these important issues. We hope • Copyright to welcome you to our center at the Palazzo • Patents Vettori in Florence next May.

The focus will be from the perspective of For application information, visit: designers, to support greater awareness, skills and strategy to navigate intellectual www.kent.edu/fashion/

FLORENCE property issues in fashion products and florencesummerworkshop production. As each presentation topic is discussed, workshop participants will engage in design-practice activities to respond to the concepts. PROGRAM COSTS AND FEES PALAZZO VETTORI FACILITIES

Workshop Fee: $840 Palazzo Vettori is a prestigious and ancient building This fee covers the cost of all supplies needed to is located in the heart of Florence, at the corner of engage in the design-practice activities, as well as Via Cavour and Via Alfani, near Piazza del Duomo. entry fees for any museums/site visits that are According to historian Guido Carocci, the origins of the offered as part of the workshop. The most significant building date from the beginning of the 15th century. field trip will be to the Pucci Foundation; transport Its façade proclaims the new ideas of Renaissance and a light lunch will be included as part of the architecture based on the use of rustication. From visit and is incorporated into the total workshop fee. January 2016 forward the entire Palazzo Vettori building will be Kent State University’s campus Airfare/Transport: (variable) location in Florence. We can advise on best approaches to traveling to Florence. The nearest airport is Florence Airport, Peretola (FLR), but there are also other airport options ELIGIBILITY that can be combined with train or other transit. Advanced undergraduate and graduate students, Meals/Incidentals: (variable) as well as faculty members and industry One lunch (for the Pucci Foundation visit) is professionals, may register to participate in the provided as part of the costs of the workshop. All workshop. other meals are the responsibility of participants. Florence offers a WEALTH of culinary options from USEFUL LINKS the most economical to outrageous. Kent State University: www.kent.edu HOUSING The Fashion School: Housing for this one week workshop can be www.kent.edu/fashion provided for a cost 450 Euro for the week. Single rooms only, these rooms are offered at Hotel The Fashion School’s Study Away Programs: Universo located at Piazza St. Maria Novella, 20, http://www.kent.edu/fashion/study-away 50123 Firenze, . Please feel free to contact us for recommendations about any other housing options. KSU Office of Global Education: http://www.kent.edu/globaleducation

FASHION IN FLORENCE CONTACT US

Birthplace of such iconic Italian brands as Gucci, J.R. Campbell Pucci and Ferragamo, Florence has been renowned Professor and Director since the Renaissance for the excellence of it's artisans. The Fashion School – An Ohio Center of Excellence Today, it is at the center of a vibrant district producing. College of the Arts high end leather goods, shoes, yarns, textiles and Kent State University knitwear. Florence played a key role in launching the PO Box 5190 "Made in Italy" brand, hosting the first 515 Hilltop Drive, shows in the postwar period. This illustrious history is 226C Rockwell Hall (office) documented in numerous local museums and - Kent, OH 44242-0001 USA collections including the Costume Gallery and the Roberto Capucci Foundation. Flagship stores of Phone: 1 (330) 672-3010 Florentine brands can be found in fashionable Via Email: [email protected] Tornabuoni alongside luxury retailers such as Dior and Burberry. All of this, coupled with an Patricia Kinsella extraordinary artistic heritage, make Florence an ideal On-site Coordinator, Florence Fashion Program place to study the past, present and future of fashion. Email: [email protected]