The fashion industry is affected by an imbalance of power that goes beyond the outsourcing of part of the manufacture … to conduct business and, hence, creativity and innovation. In order to understand fashion, IP lawyers and lawmakers need … to take into account that the law is not the main device the regulating the relevant relationships. Indeed, fashion is a …

, such as in hotels (e.g. Airbnb), transportation (e.g. Uber), and more recently, in the fashion retail industry (e.g. Rent … the Runway). While the exchange of fashion items commonly used to take place between private individuals, an increasing … twenty-six fashion retailers (Europe, US) that engage in fashion-sharing, this paper analyses their different underlying …