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Fashion Campus NYC
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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...
Read MoreFashion.NYC.2020
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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...
Read MoreFashion Draft NYC: Recruiting Fashion’s Future Leaders
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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
Read MoreNew York Fashion Week 2012
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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...
NYC Fashion Designers: Ready to Take Your Businesses to the Next Level?
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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 1st...
Read MoreFashion students, enter Fashion Draft NYC now
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The style blog of The Financial Times writes about Fashion Draft NYC:
Read MoreParsons 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.