Whom You Know: Nolcha Fashion Week: New York $50,000 Beyond the Runway Award

Monday, June 21, 2010

Nolcha Fashion Week: New York $50,000 Beyond the Runway Award

WHO:    Nolcha Fashion Week: New York held simultaneously with New York fashion week providing independent fashion designers from around the world key exposure to press, buyers, and industry figures in the New York fashion market.

WHAT:    Beyond the Runway in association with LooseButton is offering the chance for one Nolcha Fashion Week: New York September 2010 fashion designer to receive a business support package worth over $50,000 to help them succeed as an entrepreneur.

A judging panel will preview, critique and select one winner to receive an entrepreneurship accelerator package that is aimed at growing a fashion designers career beyond the runway through high quality resources and services. Award includes:

·    Online retail placement on LooseButton.com
·    One year profile on GlobalFashionBrands.com
·    Legal Service by Orrick
·    Website Design Consultation by Studio Light
·    Branding Consultation Service by MSLK
·    Accounting Service by Ernst & Young

WHEN:  September 13 - 16 2010

MORE:   The Judges:

Gabrielle Teare is a leading international Stylist active in the New York, London and Paris fashion scenes; as featured in Marie Claire, Esquire, Elle, Fashion TV, Channel 4, Daily Mail, Daily Express, CNN and the BBC, as well as providing Styling Consultancy for Disney movies - Confessions of a Shopaholic and Tinkerbell. Gabrielle continues her dynamic work at Nolcha as the Style Director of Nolcha Fashion Week: New York, London Fashion Week activities and liaison for Nolcha designers with her relationships in fashion editorial, broadcast and entertainment.

Lilly Berelovich is the co-founder of Fashion Snoops. Lilly spent 10 years in the fashion industry as a kidswear and junior designer in New York and Montreal. In 2001, frustrated with the limited access that designers had to accurate and timely trend information, she launched Fashion Snoops.com Today, Lilly is the creative force behind Fashion Snoops, and applies the service to her work as a consultant for companies needing branding, positioning design and merchandising for labels in New York and around the globe.

Sheri L Koetting is the co-founder and CEO of MSLK, a boutique marketing and design agency based in Long Island City, Queens. Drawing upon a background in fashion as well as graphic design, Sheri often incorporates unique materials and unexpected finishes to her projects. Sheri's solutions gracefully solve the defined challenges and effortlessly create order without appearing to be designed. Sheri has worked with clients such as Aveda, Loro Piana, MOP Modern Organic Products, Ralph Lauren, Sean John, Sephora, and Victoria's Secret.

Ray Cao is the Co-Founder and CEO of LooseButton. Previously, Ray was the president of the Impact Entrepreneurship Group, now Canada's largest youth-run entrepreneurship organization. In his role as president, he founded the Global Entrepreneurship Week Canada campaign. Ray has dabbled with the mix of working for companies as well, from growing a mobile startup called Polar Mobile to working as a trader on Wall Street at Barclays Capital. He realized, however, that it was much more fun building companies.

Find out how to get involved: http://nolcha.com/nolcha-fashion-week/beyond-the-runway-contest

or email info@nolchafashionweek.com

About Nolcha:
Nolcha is a leading business platform for independent fashion designers and retailers via educational and event resources; making business easy for the fashion minded. The Nolcha platform includes Global Fashion Brands, a business-to-business online Look Book service connecting retailers, stylists and media to fashion designers;Fashion Entrepreneur Report, daily video fashion business education; Nolcha Fashion Week: New York, currently held during New York fashion week providing key exposure to press, buyers, and industry figures for independent fashion designers from all over the world to break into the New York fashion market, in both apparel and accessories; events during London Fashion Week and Independent Retail Week in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago and San Francisco, an initiative to drive business and increase revenue for independent fashion retailers.www.nolcha.com | www.nolchafashionweek.com

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