Are you a fashion designer who needs expert advice to grow your business? This luncheon will introduce you to fashion industry professionals who can help solve your most pressing business challenges.

Read about our previous luncheons here.

Table Discussions:

Network, share problems, and discuss solutions. Each table will have a theme for discussion. You can choose your preferred table discussion upon registration on a first come, first serve basis.

Trade Show Sourcing - Eileen Small, Texworld

Finding Buyers for Your Brand - Emily Burnett, Fashion Designer

Aligning Your Vision to an Impact Driven Business - Hosted by Aileen Castellano & Shirin Movahed Rakocevic, WOW Global Impact.

Creating a Marketing Budget - Hosted by Melissa Shea, Fashion Mingle

FEATURED GUEST

Fashion Designer Emily Burnett

Luxury womenswear fashion designer and technology enthusiast, Emily Burnett is internationally recognized within the fashion industry for her feminine sensibility and cutting-edge innovation. Attention to ornate details, couture craftsmanship, and effortlessness characterize her aesthetic. Emily's brand has been sold in major department stores like Bloomingdales and Saks and she is now a pioneer in Metaverse.

Emily paved the way to her design success by moving to New York City in 2003 to study Fashion Design at Parsons School of Design. Burnett launched her career as a designer at Ralph Lauren's Black Label and at age 23, became the New York’s luxury design house, Dennis Basso's Creative Director. In 2018, Burnett exited Basso after designing over 50 collections to launch her eponymous luxury line, Burnett New York, that provides boldly feminine luxury fashion with a mission to empower and inspire all women.

In 2022, with adaptations to retail climate change, she innovated MetaBurnett, a brand where she uses Web3 technology to pioneer newness at the forefront of fashion, merging high fashion in both the physical real-world space as well as the digitally focused Metaverse and NFT markets.

"When we think about the impact that fashion can make on the world, we recognize its powerful role in breaking barriers, creating unity, and being a positive platform for change"

-Emily Burnett, Founder and Creative Director

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SPONSORED PROGRAM:

Sourcing at Texworld NYC: Inside the biggest textile trade show on the East Coast

Eileen Small, Market Development and Sourcing Specialist at Texworld NYC will share insights and best practices for how designers and brands can find the textiles and sourcing resources they need from vetted suppliers around the world.

TEXWORLD NYC • January 31 - February 2

Texworld and Apparel Sourcing NYC is the largest trade show platform for textiles and apparel on the East Coast. The show also has new sectors in footwear sourcing and has collaborated with Printsource New York to bring print and pattern studios to the show.

Admission is free. Advanced registration is required. Register Here

HOSTED BY THE FASHION MINGLE MASTERMIND TEAM

Catherine Schuller, Founder of Cosmoda

Shirin Movahed Rakocevic, Fashion Industry Attorney at Rakomova Law

Melissa Shea, Founder of Fashion Mingle

Dale Noelle, Founder of TRUE Model Management

Dee Rivera, Founder of DCG Group Media

UPCOMING EVENTS:

"EXPLORE THE FLOOR" TOUR AT TEXWORLD

Join Fashion Mingle for an "Explore the Floor" tour to get a personalized tour to help you find the textiles you're looking for.

Wednesday, February 1 • 10 am @ Javits Center