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Precedent
A recovered fashion blog, read forward. The old posts, set against the law that finally caught up.
The Made Things
The maker you could name, the process you could trace. Now the law wants that name too: human or machine.
The Originals
Fashion has almost no copyright in the cut of a garment. AI just flooded that lawless gap.
The Closet I Gutted
Ten years of blogging, then garbage bags of unwearable samples. The case against fast fashion, stated as personal accounting.
Made in Mass, Not en Masse
Durable running clothes built to be kept, and a slogan the law can test word by word.
Five Ways to Wear It
Convertible knitwear you could wear five ways, a decade before "circularity" had a name.
The Gown, Made Right
"Luxury" and "ethical" in the same breath, years before any marketing department dared pair them.
Luxury Eco
She trademarked "luxury eco" because the words did not exist yet. Now the law decides which green words you are allowed to use.
Fewer, Better Things
The convictions that bankrupted Nau in 2008 became a business model investors line up to fund. They are also, now, a legal claim.
No Better Time Than Nau
A 2008 love letter to a coat company that was disclosing its supply chain a decade before the law required it.
One Dress, Three Hundred and Sixty-Five Days
One dress, worn a year. A sustainability-claims case study a full decade before the regulators arrived.
The Bodies on the Runway
He cast the people the industry erased, with consent, years before "inclusivity." AI turned representation into a question with no human in it.
The Copy Was Never the Enemy
A tiny Berlin label released its patterns under Creative Commons. The question it raised is now the center of AI copyright.
The Name on the Door
When a designer’s own name is the brand, the person and the trademark become inseparable. That is now also the law of the face.
Camilla Skovgaard Built It Twice
The Danish designer built an acclaimed eponymous shoe line, then walked away to found a sustainable brand, Of Origin. A 2009 love letter, read forward.
Illegal Art
One of my first posts ever, about the RIAA suing teenagers. It was the whole future of AI copyright in miniature.