Douglas Hand Email & Phone Number

Mr. Hand is one of the pre-eminent fashion lawyers in the country. He has been featured and profiled in numerous media outlets and publications including the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Vanity Fair, the American Bar Association Journal, Women’s Wear Daily and The Business of Fashion. Douglas is a member of the Business Advisory Committee of the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA), on the Advisory Board of the CFDA’s Incubator and a member of the CFDA Fashion Awards Guild. He’s also an adjunct professor of Fashion Law at both NYU School of Law and Cardozo School of Law and is on the Fashion Institute of Technology’ (FIT) Foundation Board of Directors as well as the Board of Joes Blackbook Foundation.Mr. Hand began his legal career in the New York and Paris offices of Sherman & Sterling representing US and non-US clients in public and private transactions. Notable deals include representing Citicorp in its merger with Travelers and representing Fiat S.p.A. in its strategic alliance with General Motors. A former NCAA athlete in three sports and an avid fan, Douglas has been a contributor and speaker at conferences on the sports and entertainment sector and its intersection with the business of fashion.He sits on numerous advisory boards in the fashion industry as well a charitable institutions including The Kitchen (a supporter of interdisciplinary art that has incubated such established “experimental” artists as David Byrne, Laurie Anderson and Bill T. Jones) and Courier’s Kids (an organization dedicated to bringing tennis to inner-city youths).A published author as well, Mr Hand’s treatise on professional style The Laws of Style: Sartorial Excellence for the Professional Gentleman was published in 2018 by the American Bar Association. In the Fall of 2020, Carolina Academic Press will publish The Law and Business of Fashion and Retail - a comprehensive casebook for Fashion Law he co-edited with Barbara Kolsun.