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CFDA launches sustainability resource hub

The Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) is looking to make the fashion industry more sustainable. The organization has launched a resource hub to educate students, professionals, designers and educators on the topic. Resources offered by the new page on CFDA’s website include a Guide to Sustainable Strategies, with tools on how to...

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4 takeaways from CFDA’s Diversity Report

The Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) has teamed up with fashion conglomerate PVH Corp to analyze how inclusive and diverse American fashion companies are. In October, the duo gathered 50 top industry executives from 30 companies at a conference to survey them on current practices, and brainstorm ideas to make inclusion and...

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NYFW Gets Private Changing Rooms For Models

For anyone who has ever been backstage after a fashion show, it’s not an unfamiliar sight to see a model change out of their runway looks and into their own clothes—at moments with little or nothing on at all, surrounded by photographers and others mulling about. In line with CFDA’s Initiative for Health, Safety, and Diversity, CFDA made a major...

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CFDA to push U.N. sustainability initiatives

The Council of Fashion Designers of America will be helping the United Nations with their call for the fashion industry to move toward more sustainable business practices. This year, the CFDA launched its sustainability-centered resource hub to provide members, educators, and other fashion industry professionals with open-access resources to the...

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Why Fashion Should Take Notice of Transgender Awareness Week

Transgender Awareness Week started on Monday and runs through November 19, marking a time to celebrate, recognize and raise the visibility of transgender and gender non- conforming people. Diversity and Inclusion are part of CFDA’s pillars, and we recognize, celebrate, protect and cement the rightful place of all bodies in the industry,...

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Meet The CFDA+ 2018 Design Graduates

For the sixth edition of CFDA+ we introduce 60 selected talents entering the fashion system empowered by education. Today, in fashion as in life, change is one among few certainties. As our industry expands, and cultures shift, a new creative landscape is being co-created in tandem with a persistent desire to preserve heritage and legacy. “The...

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Meet The CFDA+ 2018 Design Graduates

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Fifteen years of the Fashion Fund seen through Vogue

The year was 2003. Vogue and CFDA came together to launch the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund, with the first winner Proenza Schouler crowned the following year. The impact of the fund cannot be underestimated. It created fashion stars – Alexander Wang, Altuzarra, Rodarte, Prabal Gurung, Phillip Lim, Public School and Telfar among them – and, in the...

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Career Goals, Mentorship, And Transparency in Focus at Women in Fashion Conversation

Gender equality in fashion is important to the CFDA, and a goal we work towards. Witness, for example, The Glass Runway survey developed with Glamour magazine earlier this year that kicked these efforts into high gear. On Monday morning, we hosted the third panel conversation on Women in the Fashion Industry, featuring Colovos Co-founder Nicole...

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Diane von Furstenberg bans fur

New York-based luxury designer Diane von Furstenberg has become the latest designer to announce a ban on fur in her collections, following an appeal from animal rights organisations, Peta US and The Humane Society of the United States. The decision to follow the likes of Burberry, Michael Kors, Gucci and Versace, was announced by the brand’s...

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CFDA and Dia&Co Join Forces for #TeeUpChange Campaign

CFDA and Dia&Co kicked off their partnership with the #TeeUpChange panel on Friday. The shared goal is simple: to advocate size-inclusive education to the next generation of designers. The room at Center 415, where theCURVYcon took place, was filled with a strong sense of support, love, empowerment, and unity through conversations with panelists...

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Lifewtr and CFDA to showcase latest class of emerging designers

Lifewtr, a premium water brand committed to advancing and showcasing sources of creativity, and the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) announced today that they will host the opening presentation of New York Fashion Week (NYFW) this September with a showcase featuring three of the newest designers breaking onto the fashion scene: Ji...