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Council of Fashion Designers of America

The Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) is a not-for-profit trade association that owns and organises the official New York Fashion Week schedule. Founded in 1962 by publicist Eleanor Lambert, the organisation today has a membership of more than 450 designers.

Council of Fashion Designers of America
Entrepreneurship

A Quick Guide to Financial Support for Small Fashion Businesses

BoF breaks down the emergency loans, grants and other measures designed to support small businesses suffering from the impact of coronavirus in key fashion markets.

Entrepreneurship

A Quick Guide to Financial Support for Small Fashion Businesses

BoF breaks down the emergency loans, grants and other measures designed to support small businesses suffering from the impact of coronavirus in key fashion markets.


Media

For Fashion Magazines, It's Crunch Time

Style titles face panicked advertisers, long-lead times and cancelled photo shoots. Can they keep print media relevant in the age of Covid-19?

Media

For Fashion Magazines, It's Crunch Time

Style titles face panicked advertisers, long-lead times and cancelled photo shoots. Can they keep print media relevant in the age of Covid-19?


Fashion Week

We Need to Rethink Fashion Month Altogether

Uncontrollable forces made the fashion industry shift the way it operates this past month, offering a moment to contemplate some bold changes.

Fashion Week

We Need to Rethink Fashion Month Altogether

Uncontrollable forces made the fashion industry shift the way it operates this past month, offering a moment to contemplate some bold changes.


Fashion Week

Tom Ford Hints at a Post-NYFW Future

The designer did what he does best: got people talking.

Fashion Week

Tom Ford Hints at a Post-NYFW Future

The designer did what he does best: got people talking.


Luxury

Did Tom Ford Betray New York Fashion Week? Not So Fast.

The CFDA chairman’s decision to do what’s best for his label and show in Los Angeles may spark the ‘creative destruction’ that American fashion needs in order to progress.

Luxury

Did Tom Ford Betray New York Fashion Week? Not So Fast.

The CFDA chairman’s decision to do what’s best for his label and show in Los Angeles may spark the ‘creative destruction’ that American fashion needs in order to progress.


Fashion Week

What Happened to New York Fashion?

With more absences on the New York Fashion Week calendar than ever before, BoF looks back at a decade of changes and turmoil in America’s fashion capital.

Fashion Week

What Happened to New York Fashion?

With more absences on the New York Fashion Week calendar than ever before, BoF looks back at a decade of changes and turmoil in America’s fashion capital.


Retail

Casper’s IPO Will Be a Moment of Truth for Fashion’s Start-Ups

This week, everyone will be talking about Casper's IPO, the state of New York Fashion Week and Macy's strategy update. Get your BoF Professional Cheat Sheet.

Retail

Casper’s IPO Will Be a Moment of Truth for Fashion’s Start-Ups

This week, everyone will be talking about Casper's IPO, the state of New York Fashion Week and Macy's strategy update. Get your BoF Professional Cheat Sheet.


Workplace & Talent

Op-Ed | How Fashion Education Prevents Inclusivity

Fashion's future creators and decision-makers are taught a narrow worldview in school, helping to perpetuate racism, fatphobia and other damaging tropes that plague the industry.

Workplace & Talent

Op-Ed | How Fashion Education Prevents Inclusivity

Fashion's future creators and decision-makers are taught a narrow worldview in school, helping to perpetuate racism, fatphobia and other damaging tropes that plague the industry.


Fashion Week

Tom Ford Will Head Back to LA for Next Runway Show

The CFDA chairman is trying to make New York Fashion Week more relevant. Next season his influence will have to be felt from afar.

Fashion Week

Tom Ford Will Head Back to LA for Next Runway Show

The CFDA chairman is trying to make New York Fashion Week more relevant. Next season his influence will have to be felt from afar.


Luxury

Op-Ed | Inclusivity Demands More Than a Show

The fashion industry has staged an extraordinary consumer-facing performance of inclusivity, but its power structure remains anything but inclusive, argues Jason Campbell.

Luxury

Op-Ed | Inclusivity Demands More Than a Show

The fashion industry has staged an extraordinary consumer-facing performance of inclusivity, but its power structure remains anything but inclusive, argues Jason Campbell.