Design by Jamie Fernandez for the Special Occasions category Photo: Informa Markets Fashion
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Informa Markets Fashion Unveils FIT Student Showcase
The COVID-19 shutdown inspired celebrated fashion designers to go online and produce digital runway shows. Now, student designers are following.
Informa Markets Fashion, the producer of the trade shows MAGIC, Project, Coterie and other major industry events, announced Sept. 30 that it would give a digital stage to student designers in the FIT Future of Fashion 2020 Showcase. The showcase is available through dedicated hubs at Coterie’s and the Children’s Club’s digital marketplaces.
These showcases are exhibiting the collections of 75 student designers from the Fashion Institute of Technology, based in New York City. The showcases run across five categories: sportswear, special occasion, knitwear, intimate apparel and childrenswear. The exhibits have been curated by Colleen Sherin, president of Coterie; Danelle Brown, Children’s Club event director; and Tommy Fazio, the fashion director of NuOrder, Informa’s technology partner.
“Our retail community is especially eager this season for innovation in design and newness, and our partnership with FIT is the perfect way to take our goal of powering-up brand and product discovery to the next level by giving retailers a peek into the true future of fashion—the next generation of designers,” Walsh said.
