1. 7 essential items to bring to a fashion internship
Tips that will help you be a better intern.

2. How to Start Your Own Fashion Line
In the fashion industry, you have to be a Jack or Jill of all trades. It is not good enough to just be a designer – you have to be able to do a lot of things. You have to be a designer, but you also have to be a business man or woman. You must be a good illustrator so that when you are getting your samples being made, details like pattern making and draping are clear. You have to be articulate and well-versed when talking about your brand to different outlets.

3. FCN 2012: What you thought you knew about your career path in fashion
From this Fashion Campus NYC panel discussion moderated by Simon Collins, a career in fashion is a bit like a sculpted childhood dream. These passions aren’t tainted by “reality”, but enlightened by possibilities.

4. Manufacture NY – Bringing Manufacturing to Brooklyn
Imagine an incubator, or a community space, where independent designers could potentially manage and streamline all their production needs in a single headquarters, at affordable options. It sounds too good to be true, right? However, maybe ‘too good to be true’ is exactly what the fashion industry, especially in New York, needs right now.

5. The Future of Fashion: Think Before You Shop
The panel was moderated and co-organized by the lovely, Carmen Artigas, whom I had the pleasure of having as a teacher when I took classes at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT). Carmen has worked in fashion for almost 20 years and is currently teaching Ethical Fashion at FIT and Parsons New School of Design in New York.

6. Making it on “Maker’s Row”
Maker’s Row, an online directory of factories serviced to young emerging designers and big companies alike who are looking to create production in America, was launched in October by founders Matthew Burnett and Tanya Menendez.

7. Launching the “KOTOBA” culture
Shima Seiki, a titan in manufacturing knitting machines, is launching and producing a line using WHOLEGARMENT® technology here in America- “KOTOBA” (Ko-to-ba). The designers of this line are seeking to start out their own slow revolution of whole garment knitting technology within our current slow revolution- anti-fashion and sustainability.

8. Modern Family, Modern Vice
Creating and constructing beautiful, handmade shoes is certainly a family affair for the Adoni clan, which consists of brothers Jordan and Jensen and their father, Jay. Their story and the eventual inception of one of the hottest up-and-coming shoe lines today, Modern Vice, is one synonymous and reminiscent of the American dream, all the while seamlessly transitioning into modernity.

9. A Proposal for the Future of New York City’s Garment District
Manhattan’s shrinking Garment District has been a center of concern for fashion designers, manufacturers, and the like. Proposals have been made to transfer production to other states or even to concentrate it in a single building, but no one has considered expanding the Garment District and revitalizing it to make the fashion industry a more prominent and important economic and creative source for New York City – until now.

10. KATE WILKOFF, Winner of the 2012 Supima Design Competition
Kate’s design aesthetic was to utilize simple, figure-flattering silhouettes that showcase unique textural details and fabric manipulations. Nature and the natural processes of life also provided a veritable source of inspiration for the young designer. For her winning capsule collection, Kate explained “[she] was inspired by the natural decay and deconstructive processes of architecture.

11. A Synderela Story
Synderela, a play on the name of the beloved fairytale character Cinderella, is a relatively young company that was created with the words power and love in mind. Specializing in beautifully crafted and accessible dresses, Synderela champions the mentality that every purchase of one of their garments matters because their entire selves – the good and the bad – are put into their creations, making this a very personal endeavor for the team.

12. Why the IOU PROJECT works
“I was a fashion designer all my life,” said Kavita Parmar, one half of the brain behind The IOU Project, an award-winning technological platform that promotes transparency and story-telling at each level of the production process of clothing.