Welcome to the Fashion Hub
Are you helping to design a new t-shirt or dress? Maybe you were approached by someone asking to use your artwork on clothing?
Our Fashion Hub can help you know and protect your rights whilst making money in the world of fashion. If you need additional support, make sure to contact our friendly team.
Arts Law supports creatives such as artists, designers, dress makers and jewellers in developing their labels and fashion businesses. We’re very excited to see the tremendous growth of Indigenous fashion designers and labels over the years. One highlight is the Country to Couture fashion parade at the Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair each year.
Arts Law’s Artists in the Black program provides legal support to textile and fashion projects involving Indigenous artists, art centres and organisations. Arts Law supports the participants in these projects through the provision of legal advice to artists, designers, and collaborators. In this Hub you will find relevant resources for fashion collaborations. If you need additional support, Arts Law offers free legal advice for members of our Artists in the Black community.
Fashion designers and artists
Do you want to make money from your creative work in the fashion and textile industries? Arts Law has published a free Information Sheet to help you do this.
We will introduce you to common issues and laws within the industry, how to commercialise your work to get paid, and how to protect your rights as an artist.
For any questions or concerns, talk to one of our friendly lawyers.
Read Our Free Info SheetContract Templates
Don’t work unprotected. Contracts ensure your rights on a project are respected and that everybody knows what they have agreed to do.
Copyright Licence
This template is useful if you are an Art Centre wishing to manufacture and sell fashion with an artist’s work on it.
Artist and Designer Agreement
This template is helpful if you are an artist collaborating with a designer or label in the fashion or furnishing industries.
Manufacturing Agreement for Fashion
This template is beneficial if you are an artist wanting to engage a manufacturer to produce textiles or clothing featuring your design.
Contracts for Collaborative Fashion Projects
Are you an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artist? Have you been approached by fashion designers wanting to use your work?
Understanding contracts for fashion projects can seem overwhelming but this video will talk you through everything you need to know. You’ll learn practical tips to make better contracts to protect your work, yourself and others.
Copyright for Collaborative Fashion Projects
Do you want to work on fashion projects that both celebrate and protect culture? Not sure where to start? Don’t miss this Arts Law webinar series for fashion designers and artists.
This webinar will teach you how copyright works, what moral rights are and how licensing can work for you. Find out how these elements work together when artists collaborate with others. Fashion designers will learn how to get the right permissions to use existing art works.
Collaborating on a Fashion Project?
Working together helps bring diverse ideas to your project. Set your collaboration up for success with one of our contract templates below.
Indigenous Consultancy Agreement
If you’re engaging an Indigenous consultant to “proof” any aspects of a production, book or theatrical work which relates to Indigenous culture, place and subject matter, this agreement will prove useful.
Collaboration Agreement for Fashion/Textiles
This agreement is helpful if you’re a designer or business in the fashion or textile industry wishing to work with an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander artist to produce items based on, incorporating, or inspired by the artworks of that artist.
Workshop Participation Deed
This Deed is beneficial if you are taking part in a workshop where you will create copyright material and possibly performs the material created.
Dressed For Success: Nagula Jarndu Designs Receives Advice on Contracts
Nagula Jarndu Designs is operated by the Yawuru Jarndu Aboriginal Corporation in Broome. It is an Indigenous women’s resource centre which specialises in textiles and has diversified into fashion.
Arts Law has had a long connection with the art centre and we regularly visit the artists and staff as part of our Artists in the Black (AITB) outreach program. This is in addition to advice we can give remotely.
How did we help Nagula Jarndu?Arts Law is a partner with the Indigenous Fashion Projects, run by the Darwin Art Fair Foundation, in developing best practice resources for anyone working in the Indigenous fashion and textile area.
