Specifications include, but are not limited to: While there are a number of recognition programs for high-potential emerging fashion designers, there are limited programs honoring high-potential emerging fashion management talent. Moreover, the fashion industry does not have many outlets in which to provide structured career development to up-and-coming management talent. The NYC Fashion Fellows Program aims to address these issues by recognizing at least twenty rising stars in fashion management and providing them with the educational, mentoring, and networking opportunities to measurably accelerate their careers and to positively impact the businesses for which they work. The Program is intended to prepare participants to take on the highest-level leadership roles, with the potential to become the next generation of CEOs, COOs, and other top-tier executives at companies across the fashion industry value chain, particularly at designers/brands, wholesalers, and retailers.
