Calif-legal.com: California Expert Witness, Gabriele Goldaper, Apparel, Clothing, Garment, Textiles, Fashion Design, Fashion Merchandising Expert Witness

Areas of Expertise:
• Fashion, apparel, clothing, and garment industry
• Textiles, fashion design, fashion merchandising
• Global and domestic clothing production and quality standards
• Licensing, trademarks and ownership of designs/patterns

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

Summary of Experience:

More than 40 years experience in the Fashion/Garment Industry, as a retailer, manufacturer, consultant & college instructor. She is a perceptive & articulate expert witness who has been involved in more than 30 apparel industry legal disputes during the past several years. She has been deposed and testified for both defendants and plaintiffs.

She has owned her own clothing manufacturing company & has held key executive positions in major public and private apparel companies in Southern California. Ms. Goldaper had been a consultant to over 180 new, failing or growing apparel companies, and completed assignments for USAID in Romania, Egypt, El Salvador, Moscow, Thailand & Bulgaria. She is a 25-year member of the faculty at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising.