NYCEDC and 92nd Street Y today announced the inaugural class of NYC Fashion Fellows, and the start of a year-long fellowship program for these rising stars in fashion management. The 20 fellows will receive executive-level mentoring, networking and community-building opportunities, as well as continuing education workshops with industry professionals and their peers. The program will help fellows achieve the next stage of career growth, increase their value to their current employers, and strengthen New York City’s community of fashion...

Nine alumni of the 2012 Design Entrepreneurs NYC program are reuniting to host NY DESIGNERS CARE, a pop-up holiday sample sale at Showroom NY on Thursday, December 6 and Friday, December 7. Alumni designers include: Sena, Verspertine, Cala Ossidiana,

STORY. Photo credit: Matthew Scrivens

New York City is a global fashion retail leader, home to the most cutting-edge stores and technologies. Today, as part of Mayor Bloomberg’s Fashion.NYC.2020 initiative, we’re launching Project Pop-Up NYC—a new competition that will recognize and reward emerging, innovative, NYC-based fashion retailers (both offline and online) and fashion-related technology companies. Up to three retailers and up to eight technology companies will be selected for this first-of-its-kind...

Last year's Fashion Campus NYC. Photo credit: Jonathan Grassi

By Meghana Gandhi, Senior Project Manager, Fashion/Retail Team

NYCEDC and Parsons The New School for Design are again joining forces for Fashion Campus NYC, an exciting, intensive weekend immersion to educate and inspire NYC’s future fashion and retail management leaders.

This year’s event, free and open to college students interning in New York City this summer, will take place from June 15th – 16th at the Parsons campus in Greenwich...

PUBLIC SCHOOL, one of our {CFDA Fashion Incubator} designers, jacket in the making. Credit: {CFDA Fashion Incubator} Tumblr

NYCEDC’s new Fashion.NYC.2020 report investigates New York City’s fashion industry, which has long been core to the City’s economy.

In January 2010, Mayor Bloomberg kicked off the Fashion.NYC.2020 program to better understand the current strengths and weaknesses of the City...

By Meghana Gandhi, Senior Project Manager, Fashion/Retail Team

Twenty-five fantastic college seniors from 21 schools across the country had a uniquely unconventional and exciting Presidents’ Day weekend, which included meeting fashion industry leaders and interviewing for full-time jobs. (See more photos on NYCEDC's Tumblr!)

NYCEDC partnered with Parsons The New School for Design for

 
New York Fashion Week is officially here!  The iconic semiannual event held throughout the city includes over 250 fashion shows and attracts about 232,000 total attendees each year. Did you also know?

• Citywide, Fashion Week generates $532 million in direct visitor spending per year, leading to $865 million in total economic impact each year.
• Collectively, fashion trade shows, events and showrooms generate over 578,000 annual out-of-town visits, accounting for 14% of all conventioneers to the City.
• New York City’s fashion retail market—the largest in the country—is growing at a considerable rate. From 2010 to 2025, it is projected...

By Victor Wong, Project Manager

NYCEDC has partnered with the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) to launch Design Entrepreneurs NYC, a targeted effort to support emerging talent in order to grow the City as a hub of fashion design. Design Entrepreneurs NYC is a free, intensive “mini-MBA” program that will equip select NYC fashion designers with the skills needed to successfully run a fashion label, including marketing, operations, and financial management.

The program will kick off with a June 1^st...

The style blog of The Financial Times writes about Fashion Draft NYC:

Parsons and the New York City Economic Development Corporation team up to create Fashion Draft NYC," an initiative that "will bring a select group of top business-minded students from around the world to New York City to network and interview with fashion executives," and follows Fashion Campus NYC, a career-building and networking event co-organized by NYCEDC and Parsons this past July to help talented students pursue fashion business careers in New York City.

Fashion students,