How does the Fashion.NYC.2020 Report affect Brooklyn and Black designers... the fact is few know the initiative or program exist or Is it that many simply do not believe it is meant for them? It's a timely question given the fact that i've agreed to support a documentary that explores the economics of "Black is beautiful!"
view online at
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FriHdj0fP06l_XIRLs4rfU-5ebhIrpgavmk-Pp4z9...
So what your responsibility?
The economics of local independent designers across the globe anf by extension Black and Brooklyn fashion designers is at the center of my mission...I am reading the 27 page report(downlodad here) and cannot help wonder what others think! . i
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The fashion 2020 initiative is made up of six components!
Fashion Campus NYC: Programming to expose summer interns to the
breadth of exciting career opportunities available on the business side of
the industry
• Fashion Draft NYC: A talent recruitment initiative in which select top
college seniors get a behind-the-scenes look at the industry and interview
with some of the City’s fashion firms for full-time, management-track
positions
• NYC Fashion Fellows: A recognition program offering mentoring,
networking and educational opportunities to “rising stars” in fashion
management
Develop the next generation of
management and merchant leaders
Sustain NYC’s role as
the world’s center of
fashion media, marketing
and retailing
Support key
differentiators
Become a hub of innovation for
specialty and multi-channel retail
experiences
Build new
assets
Continue to be the HQ
hub of the wholesale
trade and department
stores
Accelerate growth of the
world’s top design talent
and fashion
entrepreneurs
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• Design Entrepreneurs NYC: An entrepreneurial “boot camp” to equip
emerging designers with the tools necessary to launch and manage a
fashion business
• Project Pop-up: An annual competition to foster innovation in retail by
promoting compelling, cutting-edge fashion retail concepts
• NYC Fashion Production Fund: A fund providing emerging designers
loans for production financing as well as mentoring services and access to
local production resources
The Fashion.NYC.2020 report covers the following areas of interest:
- Current status and major trends impacting the NYC Fashion Industry
- Spend polarization
- Growth in emerging markets
- Rise of contemporary brands
- Growth of vertical brand strategies
- Consumer Centricity
- Sustainability
- New York City’s Fashion Ecosystem
- Fashion Week
- Design
- Manufacturing
- Wholesale
- Retail
- Media and marketing
- NYCEDC’s recommendations and details on initiatives developed to help sustain NYC’s top industry position
- Fashion Campus NYC
- Fashion Draft NYC
- NYC Fashion Fellows
- Design Entrepreneurs NYC
- Project Pop-up
- NYC Fashion Production Fund
NYCEDC’s Fashion.NYC.2020 is a strategic study designed to examine the state of New York City fashion and the challenges facing the industry over the coming decade.
