Brooklyn Fashion is about  cooperative marketing  efforts and working towards a  sound solution. Brooklyn Fashion Week | Brooklyn Fashion  Film Festival|Brooklyn Fashion Awards ...  October/November  accordig to  designer concensus

What  we look  for
Products

That the consumer

and is available for sale- the 5uers expect product... this is not jjust showcase

A note on stores and  local boutiques, buyers and consumers.- the buyers expect product... this is not just a showcase.  you  are resposi5le for the negotiations between yourself and the buyer.  Please have a sales process in place!


Resources
for sale or orders
means  you have arranged production  and know delivery times and cost1
secure local production

City Source " Showcase
Fashion Manufacturing in NYC
Fashion Institute of Technology
"The Great Hall" (enter 28th St)
Tuesday July 17th, 2012
10am - 6pm

Textiles

Printsource New York July 31 & August 1

Texworld USA July 24 to 26th
INDIGO NY - July 31 & August 1
dg expo on August 6 & 7

Production 
International Apparel Sourcing Show - July 24 to 26th

If You are interested in BKFFF please register at

http://www.bkfff.com/wp-login.php?action=register

WILLIAMSBURG FASHION WEEKEND

2012 SPRING/SUMMER

What: Williamsburg Fashion Weekend
Spring/Summer 2012

www.williamsburgfashionweekend.com/

When: September 16^th and 17^th, 2011
Doors open at 8PM
First show goes on at 9PM sharp

Where: Windmill Studios NYC
287 Kent Ave. Brooklyn, NY

Who: 17 new and emerging fashion designers
Hayden Dunham, Melissa Lockwood, Nathalie Kraynina, Leslie Padoll & Blake Glover, Juanita Cardenas, Brittany Erb, Michele Cirigliano, King Gurvy, SDN, Ruffeo Hearts Lil’ Snotty, Derrick Hinds, Minae Chae, Stephanie Hinson, La China Loca, Vashti Windish & Cameron Michel, Andrea Diodati, Alisha Trimble, and Shock Vintage.  Plus Magick Report with other bands TBA

How: www.williamsburgfashionweekend.com/

Facebook invite: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=152886354794176#!/event.php?eid=152886354794176

This event is open to the public
$10 cover each night

21 or over with valid ID

Williamsburg Fashion Weekend, in its ninth season, continues to give a platform to emerging designers who push the boundaries of convention in design, production and presentation. WFW is unique in the New York fashion world, being the only biannual event that showcases the work of designers and artists, that are “not big enough”, or too “artistic” to be shown at corporate fashion events.

The designers WFW has championed for the past four years are visionaries who explore the full spectrum of fashion, from making up-to-the-minute casual wear to museum-worthy art pieces, all the while showing them with a no holds barred personal approach. These designers bravely stand their ground, and don’t succumb to corporate mantras of money over aesthetics and ethics. Working locally, they pave the way for fashion to revive neighborhoods, by reviving local industries.

Consumers have come to realize the advantages of buying local goods and that transparent business practices are important. They will find that wearing clothes designed by WFW designers will make them feel good about contributing to a better future of local and global environment, and yield nothing less then a brand new fashion world.

Brooklyn Fashion week is calling Models to submit their info at http://models.brooklynfashionweek.com/submit ! Our fall 2011 program  dates are February 9-121th!

Brooklyn Models are "REAL"... Well we think they are superb and want you to get to know them, Their profiles, comp-cards, latest achievements. backstage on the red carpet.. even their other talents (yes they have interseting lives) and career paths!

Designers need to connect with models all year  round!

This February  we showcase a select group of Fall/Winter 2011 for trade as well as immediate SS 2011 for consumers!  We also Start  young indie designers on  preparation for SS 2012 Shows qhich happen later this year! Establishing relationships with mmodels and being able to Fit Garments is an Important part of that!

We're asking would Be Brooklyn Models  to submit their profile and get listed and featured in our Brooklyn Fashion Model Focus

BKStylist!™is also  looking for real Brooklyn Women who shine (or want to ) in the style department! Tell us your story submit info here

Last night I had a casual chat with two young women on the subway both ( as it seems everyone in New York is) were “indie” designers. Inevitable the question cam around as to how whether or not they were moving product and what was the best way to do so! One adamantly insisted that social media was the best route, that it was simple upload your images and have friends comment and share. Of course I asked about their success. Which elicited the usual, “response has been great!”

When asked how much were you making!

The inevitable response, “we weren’t actually selling!”

There is “Product, content and audience.” Designers sell product; Bloggers monetize content and audience… social networkers monetize audience with other people’s content! Social media marketing agencies as supposed to help brands sell product by increasing their audience! It is gauche to ask about salaries and profit… a great wall of secrecy that supports what I see as the abuse of young dreams! I am The Fashion Editor of the Calabar magazine so I justify it as professional curiosity!

So how much is does a designer have to make to be successful!

The challenge is cutting cost so that they can see a profit! Designers who have gone through our program do! Many without even fully adapting the program! Brooklyn Designers can gross six figures and above annually! To which one young designer replied not in your first year! It can and has been done… in the first year!

Which led me to do two things

1. complete the response to Macala Whight’s article "Fashionably Late to the Social Media Party?"
2. Open up our program to designers who want to show a collection in February so that they can sell and see a profit simply use our contact form and inquire about our apprenticeship program