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Impact

IMPACT supports a more expansive and representative industry through: opening pathways to careers, nurturing creative development, and fostering community across disciplines.

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Genesis House AAPI Design + Innovation Grant

This program continues to spotlight the incredible AAPI fashion talent, celebrating heritage and modernity, while providing a platform for designers to redefine fashion’s future through innovation.

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CFDA X Google Fashion Equity Fellowship

The grant program connects the leading technology company’s resources and knowledge directly to designers and their brands to support their NYFW collections and showcases.

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Industry

Industry Insights

CFDA’s Industry Insights provides our members and designers with relevant, practical information to operate their businesses more effectively, while also helping them to gain valuable insights and develop strategy for growth.

Panel discussions, lectures, and workshops address topics including, but not limited to: branding, communications, e-commerce, entering international markets, domestic, and international trademarks, marketing, PR, social media, seeking investment, employment law, and more.

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Industry Insights
From lab breakthroughs to mainstream adoption, industry collaboration is the missing ingredient.

The Secret to Scaling Next-Gen Materials
Marketing

Anatomy of a Collaboration: The Exec's Formula for Cultural Impact

A guide that combines deep research and hands-on strategy to shape collaborations that resonate culturally and commercially.
Sustainability

Good Talks: Circularity, Considered

Theory and the CFDA hosted the fourth session in the series at the brand's Meatpacking District store.
Retail

Fashion Forward | Sales & Retail

Experts discuss the current landscape of the sales and retail industry for independent designers.
Marketing

Fashion Forward | Marketing & Retail

The executives discuss practices for prioritizing healthy financial strategies while aligning marketing efforts with business goals.
Finance

Fashion Retail... Currently: How To Get Paid

Susan Scafidi of the Fashion Law Institute on how designers can get timely payments from retailers.
Supply Chain

Recent & Proposed Legislation Impacting the Textile and Fashion Industries

Policy brief and webinar featuring Senator Jeremy Cooney
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