{"id":16187,"date":"2012-06-29T10:00:58","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T14:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/modacycle.com\/?p=16187"},"modified":"2012-06-29T01:51:34","modified_gmt":"2012-06-29T05:51:34","slug":"fashion-incubator-cfdai-2-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modacycle.com\/old_modacycle_jan_2016\/2012\/06\/29\/fashion-incubator-cfdai-2-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Fashion Incubator – CFDAI 2.0"},"content":{"rendered":"

story and photos by Charles Beckwith
\nphoto editing by Bonnie Rodriguez<\/p>\n

It’s tough to be a new designer. There are a million problems to deal with but you’re out of school, so you can’t turn to a professor for help at every step. Combined with the down economy and the changing marketplace, what hope is there for someone trying to independently get their own label off the ground? Enter the CFDA Fashion Incubator<\/a>, a project sponsored and mentored and contributed to by a fairly large number of concerned parties in the industry. The Incubator provides most importantly mentorships, most obviously visibility, and most enticingly cheap studio space, to a class of twelve emerging designers every two years.<\/p>\n

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The first class of designers taking residence at the Incubator has moved on, and now a new group has moved in. There was an open house recently, and the press was introduced to the showrooms\/workspaces of the second class:\u00a0\u00a0Christian Cota,\u00a0Arielle Shapiro of Ari Dein,\u00a0Daniel Vosovic,\u00a0Luis Fernandez of NUMBER:Lab,\u00a0Doug and Ben Burkman of Burkman Bros,\u00a0Emanuela Duca,\u00a0Whitney Pozgay of WhiT,\u00a0Reece Solomon of Reece Hudson,\u00a0Ricky Hendry and Marc Daniels of Isaora, and\u00a0Timo Weiland, Donna Kang, and Alan Eckstein of Timo Weiland.\u00a0Some of them are garment designers, others focus on accessories, and their styles vary widely, so it’s a bit of a mixed bunch.<\/p>\n

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The space is big, beautiful, and well located in the Garment District. It will be great when the CFDA can consider this program a success and expand it to help a larger number of well-deserving artists in the struggling next generation of fashion’s forward thinkers.<\/p>\n

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designer Christian Cota<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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It’s tough to be a new designer. There are a million problems to deal with but you’re out of school, so you can’t turn to a professor for help at every step. Combined with the down economy and the changing marketplace, what hope is there for someone trying to independently get their own label off the ground? Enter the CFDA Fashion Incubator, a project sponsored and mentored and contributed to by a fairly large number of concerned parties in the industry. The Incubator provides most importantly mentorships, most obviously visibility, and most enticingly cheap studio space, to a class of twelve emerging designers every two years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,734],"tags":[457,880,879,884,885,79,894,344,698,751,883,886,893,881,892,882,890,889,891,456,888,887],"class_list":["post-16187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-news-and-commentary","tag-alan-eckstein","tag-ari-dein","tag-arielle-shapiro","tag-ben-burkman","tag-burkman-bros","tag-cfda","tag-cfda-incubator","tag-christian-cota","tag-daniel-vosovic","tag-donna-kang","tag-doug-burkman","tag-emanuela-duca","tag-isaora","tag-luis-fernandez","tag-marc-daniels","tag-numberlab","tag-reece-hudson","tag-reece-solomon","tag-ricky-hendry","tag-timo-weiland","tag-whit","tag-whitney-pozgay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/modacycle.com\/old_modacycle_jan_2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/modacycle.com\/old_modacycle_jan_2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/modacycle.com\/old_modacycle_jan_2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modacycle.com\/old_modacycle_jan_2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modacycle.com\/old_modacycle_jan_2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16187"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/modacycle.com\/old_modacycle_jan_2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16207,"href":"https:\/\/modacycle.com\/old_modacycle_jan_2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16187\/revisions\/16207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modacycle.com\/old_modacycle_jan_2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/modacycle.com\/old_modacycle_jan_2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modacycle.com\/old_modacycle_jan_2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modacycle.com\/old_modacycle_jan_2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}