Arts of Fashion Foundation Sponsorship Opportunities

 

The Arts of Fashion Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization linking both academics and professionals alike and is dedicated in fostering international cultural exchange through the creation of a variety of events meant to facilitate critical thinking among artists, designers, scholars and students. The primary focus of the foundation is the continuous support of creativity and design in fashion and the arts linked to it. We organize a variety of educational events including our annual International Student Fashion Design and Accessories Competition and our prestigious MasterClass-Series, five days consisting of exhibitions, seminars, and workshops directed by world-renowned designers. Presently, the Arts of Fashion Student Competition is the only U.S. fashion design competition credited by 2008 Annual Guide Percosi di Creativita, published by LVMH.

We are seeking eager partners who share our vision of innovation, growth, and the development of future generations of artists, fashion designers and innovators. Our advancement to international status necessitates we procure additional funding to continue to offer the highest quality in education, speakers, seminars and shows.

The ultimate goal of the Arts of Fashion is to expose fashion design students to a 'creative mindset' through introducing them to rare opportunities such as participation in international fashion design competitions, internships abroad, workshops, exhibitions, and lectures with prestigious guest speakers. Internships with reknowned designers are key in an industry in which connections are vital to an aspiring designer's career.

It would be our honor for your company to join us in supporting the young talents from all over the world who constantly produce fresh ideas ideas, which eventually become trends and highly influential in consumer markets. As we know, fashion is a constantly changing and evolving industry. By exposing student designers to avant-garde techniques, ethics and prestigious industry professionals, we hope we can with your sponsorship elevate design to a new level of innovation.

Our latest 2007 competition in which this year¹s theme was 'Confusion' attracted student participants from more than 90 schools and 30 countries, competing for scholarship and internship opportunities at prestigious Fashion Schools, such as La Cambre Mode[s] Fashion School in Brussels, Duperre Mode & Textile Applied Arts School and the Schools of the French Federation in Paris, and Fashion Design Houses, such as Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, Veronique Branquinho, Anne Valerie Hash, Wendy and Jim and Natalia Brilli. Our competition final and fashion show took place on November 3rd at the DuPont Building in Miami and was presided over by the international leading contemporary creative fashion designer from the Belgium scene, Veronique Branquinho. The event included workshops conducted by distinguished guests including Laurent Edmond from Maison Martin Margiela, Susie Bubble, famous London blogger of stylebubble.typepad.com, Etienne Mineur, graphic art designer and mastermind behind the Issey Miyake website, and seminars including focus on fashion copyright issues directed by Attorney Susan Scafidi, who testified before the U.S. Congress. Additionally we brought international winners and rising stars, such as Matthieu Blazy and Sandra Backlund and we launched a new platform Debut-Series with 4 young designers, who studied in the United States and are alumni of the Arts of Fashion: Megan Stein, Douglas Reker, David Gil and Santiago Carlos.

However, we would like to grow even more, with more prizes and internships, funding for scholarships, development of summer and winter sessions in prestigious and traditional visual and applied art colleges around the world and also opportunities for young independent designers to showcase their work nationally and internationally.

Your company may participate on a variety of levels and will be exposed to students, faculty, attendees, and high profile industry professionals. All contributions to the foundation are tax-deductible. We are open to discuss any possibilities pertaining to our future collaboration. For additional information, please email to contact-us@arts-of-fashion.org or by calling at (415) 252-0734.

We hope you can contribute to our efforts and help make our foundation the finest possible.

Nathalie Doucet, President

The Arts of Fashion Foundation is a nonprofit organization, dedicated to international cultural exchanges through a variety of events meant to facilitate critical thinking among artists, designers, scholars, and students.