For CFDA members Veronica Miele Beard and Veronica Swanson Beard, paying it forward is a core value of their label, Veronica Beard.

Today, the brand announced its Q3 2025 VB Gives Back partner: the CFDA Foundation. Together, we’ve launched the Veronica Beard x CFDA Creative Futures Scholarship, an initiative created to support and champion the next generation of fashion designers.

The Veronica Beard x CFDA Creative Futures Scholarship is a pipeline for emerging talent—providing four standout design students with both financial support and real-world experience. Each recipient receives a $50,000 scholarship to invest in their education and professional growth, along with a summer internship at the Veronica Beard NYC headquarters, where they work alongside the design team and gain a deep understanding of how collections come to life.

“Access and exposure are key, especially so early in these students’ careers,” Swanson Beard said. “We’re so thrilled to be partnering with the CFDA and share their commitment to supporting the fashion designers of tomorrow.”

The students began their internships in June and are already gaining hands-on experience and contributing to the creative process of developing the Spring 2026 collection.

“We are so excited about the opportunity to mentor and inspire the next generation of designer talent,” Miele Beard noted. “We also fully expect that we’ll be the ones inspired at the end of the day.”

The CFDA Foundation is the philanthropic arm of the CFDA and funds industry-wide initiatives across education, sustainability, diversity, equity and inclusion, helping to shape a stronger, more responsible future for fashion.

“Since joining the CFDA membership in 2014, Veronica Miele Beard and Veronica Swanson Beard have strategically grown their business all while setting an example of how to give back to our industry in meaningful ways,” CFDA CEO and President Steven Kolb said. “We are excited to launch this new scholarship program with the Veronica Beard brand to help us further cement the future of American fashion.”

Now through the end of September, VB Gives Back will be donating a portion of all VeronicaBeard.com orders to the CFDA Foundation in support of this initiative.

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