{"id":534,"date":"2015-11-04T13:51:28","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T18:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/onmymind\/?p=534"},"modified":"2015-11-04T13:51:28","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T18:51:28","slug":"another-successful-year-for-design-entrepreneurs-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/onmymind\/2015\/11\/04\/another-successful-year-for-design-entrepreneurs-nyc\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Successful Year for Design Entrepreneurs NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"1st
1st Place: Brad Schmidt and Raul Arevalo, CADET <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"2nd
2nd Place: Julie Haus and Jason Alkire, Haus Alkire <\/div> <\/div>
\"Jason
Jason Alkire, Julie Haus, Dr. Brown, Brad Schmidt, Raul Arevalo <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Eric
Eric Johnson, Director, New York Economic Development Corporation and Morris Goldfarb, Chairman, CEO and President, G-III, FIT Foundation Director <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Jeanette
Jeanette Nostra, Design Entrepreneur NYC \u201cexecutive in residence\u201d; Barry Kay, co-president, Herman Kay Co., Inc.; Robin Burns-McNeill, FIT Trustee & Chair, Batallure Beauty, LLC <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Jonathan
Jonathan Meizler, mens accessories designer, DENYC 2015; FIT Professor Shawn Carter, DENYC 2015 mentor <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Judges:
Judges: Gary Brody, President, Marcraft Apparel Group; Abbey Doneger, President, The Doneger Group, FIT Foundation Director; Deirdre Quinn, President, Lafayette 148, FIT Trustee; James Weinberg, Sr. Vice President, DSW <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n

Although we awarded prizes to the winners of the Design Entrepreneurs NYC\u00a0program weeks ago, I am still feeling the afterglow. This is the summertime program\u00a0FIT inaugurated four years ago in collaboration with the city\u2019s Economic Development\u00a0Corporation (EDC) to help emerging designers devise the strategies that allow their\u00a0businesses to thrive. It is a kind of business boot camp\u2014and an intensive one at that\u2014one that draws some of the city\u2019s most promising designers as well as a cadre of elite\u00a0business leaders who act as mentors and judges. While all participants benefit from this\u00a0program, two are selected at the end to receive cash prizes\u2014and each year, I am\u00a0delighted to say, we are able to offer more.<\/p>\n

Our major supporter since the beginning has been GIII and its generous and far-sighted CEO Morris Goldfarb who this year helped us to raise a total of $150,000 for\u00a0prize money. The EDC increased its contribution as well this year which allowed us to\u00a0enrich the programming. Jeanette Nostra, former president of GIII, has been the dynamic\u00a0\u201cexecutive in residence\u201d for the program from the beginning and has provided brilliant\u00a0leadership.<\/p>\n

It is gratifying to know that this program has already helped more than 100\u00a0businesses grow and thrive. These designers have shown their lines in New York and\u00a0Paris fashion weeks, won important industry prizes or \u201cbest in show\u201d recognition, and\u00a0gained high profile press as well as celebrity clients. One was invited to create a line for\u00a0The GAP; another was named design consultant to a major industry event production\u00a0company, and yet another now has a Cadillac collaboration. Four were among this\u00a0year\u2019s10 CFDA\/ Vogue Fashion Fund finalists\u2014and one has sold her line of lingerie to a\u00a0large company while remaining its creative director. All of them remain New York City\u00a0stalwarts\u2014contributing to the future of the New York creative industry.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s top prize winner was the Brooklyn-based menswear brand CADET,\u00a0cofounded by Brad Schmidt and FIT alumnus Raul Arevalo. They received $100,000 to\u00a0invest in their company. The husband-wife team Haus Alkire were awarded the second\u00a0place $50,000 Israel Goldgrub Award for their luxury women\u2019s wear company. The\u00a0award is named for the father of YM, Inc president, Michael Gold, who not only provided\u00a0the gift but also acted as a judge. Prize money for the top winners has grown\u00a0significantly since the program\u2019s inception thanks to the industry\u2019s faith in and\u00a0commitment to DENYC. It\u2019s a great program, and I look forward eagerly to celebrating\u00a0its fifth anniversary next year.<\/p>\n

Read More:<\/strong>
\n\u00bb Design Entrepreneurs NYC<\/a>
\n\u00bb DENYC at FIT Newsroom<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Although we awarded prizes to the winners of the Design Entrepreneurs NYC\u00a0program weeks ago, I am still feeling the afterglow. This is the summertime program\u00a0FIT inaugurated four years ago in collaboration with the city\u2019s Economic Development\u00a0Corporation (EDC) to help emerging designers devise the strategies that allow their\u00a0businesses to thrive. It is a kind of business […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":436,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32384],"tags":[20371,19557,18706,41503],"class_list":["post-534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-2","tag-denyc","tag-industry","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyedc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ycDS-8C","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/onmymind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/onmymind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/onmymind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/onmymind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/436"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/onmymind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/onmymind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/onmymind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/onmymind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/onmymind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}