Whether you produce ready-to-wear, couture, cosmetics or accessories, Dentonscan advise on every aspect of your legal and business needs—product design, manufacturing, licensing, franchising, sales, distribution, financing, sourcing, business development and more.

The fashion and luxury industry features unique characteristics: fast-moving product cycles, durability, heritage, globalization of trends and styles.

We share resources with other actors in this industry such as trademark advisers, architects and designers, international trade fair organizers, and fashion and designers' councils. Your brand is your core asset; you have to be alert to counterfeiting and copyright and trademark infringements. You also have to organize a global manufacturing and supply chain, and navigate import, certification and retailing laws.

Dentons can work with you to meet and overcome these challenges—a partnership driving the success of your brand. And a partner that brings experience shaped by some of the world’s best-known luxury brands.

Our clients range from innovative startups to iconic jewelry houses and world-famous fashion and apparel brands, legacy interior design editors, leading hotels and resorts, and luxury book publishers. We can address your needs as an individual business owner, a family-owned business, an institutional investor, a private equity fund or a multinational company.

We service your end-to-end operations. We advise on real estate, business and tax structure, staff employment and reputation protection. We make sure your boutiques are completed on schedule and deliver the ultimate shopping experience.

Whether your business is fashion, fragrance, cosmetics, fine wines, jewelry, watches, tableware, fine arts, furniture design, hospitality or publishing—together we’re a fashionable choice.

Look to our lawyers for effective solutions across the luxury goods, fashion and beauty sectors, including:

• Designing legal protection schemes for fashion related issues, from a trademark, industrial design and copyrights perspective;
• Drafting and negotiating fashion and luxury franchising contracts, and retail distribution models;
• Enforcing legal actions against misappropriation and infringement of fashion related rights.