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27 Jun

4 Fashion Scholarship Fund alumni will face off Tuesday night of their quest to win a $50,000 grant and a 12 months of mentorship from the organization. The competition is a component of the group’s Summer Scholar Series inside its Accelerator Grant Program created to assist nascent brands scale their businesses. The finalists are Esther Andrews, Golce Guven, Sieun Lee and Chantal Mtakati. They are going to present their ideas to a panel of judges from the style industry including Narda Chan, vice chairman of design for attire at Macy’s; designer Victor Glemaud; Roberto Lorenzini, chief executive officer of Tod’s Group, Americas; Jenna Lyons, cofounder and CEO of Loveseen, and Eleanor Turner, founder and CEO of The Big Favorite, and winner of...

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8 Jun

Raisefashion and the Anti-Racism Fund Are Reaching Out to

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Fashion, Featured

In an effort to achieve more students and create profession opportunities, Raisefashion has upped the ante for the third installment of its paid internship program with the Anti-Racism Fund. This time around outreach was prolonged to 13 HBCUs, in comparison with 4 last yr. Candidates from six of the 13 HBCUs have been accepted. There have been greater than 500 candidates vying for the 29 spots on this yr’s summer program. Lately some corporations and organizations have been attempting to create a pipeline for aspiring designers and other creatives, who're keen to pursue a profession in fashion, in an effort to make the industry more diverse and attainable to a wider swath of individuals from different backgrounds. Well aware of how...

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18 May

The CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Names Finalists; Beyoncé Teases Beauty Brand

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Fashion, Featured

IN IT TO WIN IT: A fresh batch of aspiring designers are within the running for one among fashion’s more coveted prizes. The Council of Fashion Designers of America and Vogue have announced this yr’s contenders for the 2023 CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund. The winner will receive $300,000 and two runners-up will go home with $100,000 each. The aim for all is to realize the constructing blocks which are crucial to create a viable and long-lasting business. The finalists this time around are: Angelo Fabricio Urrutia of 4SDesigns, Colin LoCascio, Rachel Scott of Diotima, Kim Shui, Kozaburo Akasaka of Kozaburo, Melitta Baumeister, Sami Miro of Sami Miro Vintage, Fletcher Kasell and Tanner Richie of Tanner Fletcher, Everard Best and Téla D’Amore of Who Decides War, and Henry Zankov of Zankov. The CFDA’s chairman...

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8 May

Womaness Taps Consumers For Latest Fund Raise – WWD

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Beauty, Featured

Slug: Newsfeed Womaness is occupied with funding in another way. The menopause solutions brand is doubling down on community and word-of-mouth marketing with its latest raise. Founders Sally Mueller and Michelle Jacobs set out to begin the brand’s third fundraise, but knowing the investor market was tougher than ever — not to say women-founded and women-centric brands are sometimes underfunded — they selected to work with three Los Angeles-based investors — Carol Cheng, Annie Bellanger and Ellen Chen — to form a special purpose vehicle (SPV). This format brought women of all ages and all investor experience to the brand’s cap table with checks starting from $5,000 to $50,000, raising nearly $1 million total — though the brand remains to...

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