Welcome To 'The Laws of Style'

The soliloquys and interviews on this podcast will cover topics ranging from fashion design, lifestyle brands, personal style, and of course, the law. Douglas Hand hosts a delightful meandering on these subjects featuring luminaries from the fashion community. In many cases, these will be households names who rarely speak publicly. Moments will dazzle, comments will crack you up, articulations from founders of brands will transport you to that brand’s special place, and the challenges facing start-up brands will make you wonder why founders try it at all.

The thought kernel for this podcast is Douglas’s book, "The Laws of Style," a sartorial guide for professional gentlemen. Underlying these laws is the notion that apparel choices reveal a subtle vernacular about who we are as individuals. Style is embedded in our appearance and how we hold ourselves out to the world. Clothing and accessories, then, represent a coded delivery system for communicating ourselves. The goals of the laws of style are not to restrict, but to afford self-expression. The Laws of Style podcast posits that this process is just as worthy of discussion as the business of law and fashion and that these topics are inherently interrelated. 

Douglas has been representing clients in the fashion industry for over twenty years as a corporate lawyer. Additionally, Douglas is the General Counsel at American brand Rag & Bone and to the Council of Fashion Designers of America. He is also an adjunct law professor who teaches a course on Fashion Law at his alma mater, New York University School of Law, and a practicum on Fashion Law at Cardozo Law School to law students working with students from the Fashion Institute of Technology where Douglas is a member of the school’s Foundation board. Douglas revels in his fashion choices, proving that being a “man of style” and a “man’s man” are complimentary—not contradictory—terms.  

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