Gabriele Goldaper & Associates

Profile:
More than 45 years experience in the Fashion/Garment Industry, as a retailer, manufacturer, consultant, and college instructor. A perceptive articulate expert witness who has been involved in more than 165 apparel industry legal disputes during the past many years. Ms. Goldaper has been deposed and testified for both defendants and plaintiffs. 
 She has owned her own clothing manufacturing company as well as held key executive positions in major public and private apparel companies. Ms. Goldaper has been a management consultant to over 200 new, failing or growing apparel companies, and completed assignments for the US Agency for International Development (USAID) in Romania, Egypt, El Salvador, Moscow, Thailand Bulgaria as an apparel expert. She is a 35-year member of the faculty at Fashion Institute of Design Merchandising.


Areas of Expertise:
Apparel/Clothing Industry, Standard Practices Fashion Industry, Garment and Textile Industry, Apparel/Licensing, Building Brands and Brand Dilution, Copyright Infringement, Intellectual Property, Licensing, Trademark Infringement, Trade Dress Infringement

Education/Licenses:
Barnard College, Univ. of Cincinnati; B.A., B.S., Graduate Studies: Xavier University