CFDA’s Anti-Knockoff Bill Hits a Major SnagHigh-end designers have been moaning about copyright protection and the proliferation of knockoffs for years, but after working with the American Apparel and Footwear Association to iron out a fashion copyright bill called the Design Piracy Prohibition Act, the CFDA just received some bad news:
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CFDA’s Stephen Kolb Touched Eliot Spitzer’s Sex HandsLast night at a party for this year’s CFDA Awards nominees, the Cut (that’s our fabulous new fashion blog, in case you don’t know) caught up with executive director Stephen Kolb, who, as it turned out, had had an interesting encounter with Luv Guv Eliot Spitzer. No, not that kind of encounter. Kolb was in Washington this past February 14, the day after Spitzer allegedly hired a prostitute. He and Narciso Rodriguez were at a hearing about fashion designers’ intellectual-property rights, when the lobbyist they were working with suddenly introduced them to Spitzer. “I shook his hand!” he told the Cut. “I shook his hand the next day! I’m thinking about how creepy that is now! No, I’m joking. So, I mean, it happened on the 13th?” Allegedly, yes. “Alright, well, he looked happy on the 14th!”
CFDA’s Stephen Kolb Touched Eliot Spitzer the Morning After [The Cut]
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CFDA’s Stephen Kolb Touched Eliot Spitzer the Morning AfterFashion and politics go hand in hand. Literally. Last night at the cocktail party for CFDA Awards nominees we caught up with CFDA executive director Stephen Kolb, who reminisced about the time he met — and touched — Governor Eliot Spitzer in Washington, D.C.
