From fine jewelry and eveningwear to ready-to-wear, beauty and active/casualwear, honorees are also being offered mentoring opportunities.
The event started with FGI’s president and chief executive officer Maryanne Grisz, revealing the launch of a mentorship and learning program for emerging brands. The program will address topics such as business plans, sales and distribution, design and production, legal issues and other potential pitfalls that can sink a young business.The program, which is open to finalists as well as winners, will pair the emerging designers with industry executives including Gary Wassner of Hilldun Corp.
Former Rising Star winner Patricia Field was the keynote speaker and chronicled her journey from NYU’s liberal arts program to fashion designer, costume designer and now curator of ArtFashion Gallery, a Lower East Side location in New York where she selects handcrafted apparel and accessories from a group of artists.
Next up, Field said, is a documentary about her career, “Happy Clothes: A Film About Patricia Field,” that will be part of the upcoming Tribeca Film Festival. The beauty award went to Michael and Diana Wilson of Saints & Sinners Haircare, while the fine jewelry award was won by Burkindy, a line from Burkindy Faso, an immigrant artist from West Africa, who said the honor would represent a “new birth” for his brand.
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