LOUIS VUITTON AND THE BASOTHO BLANKET | POWER FM
Iman Rappetti talks to Partner, Darren Olivier, and Associate, Maureen Makoko, about the upcoming Adams & Adams IP Evening Series, as well as the recent controversy over Basotho designs and well known fashion house Louis Vuitton as a case study.
At a recent IP Evening Series event in Soweto, Darren explained that “fashion and crafts are a vibrant industry amongst entrepreneurs in Africa, and we are taking IP to the former townships to help entrepreneurs cost effectively use IP systems to create value for their creativity“.
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