CFDA Fashion Futures Graduate Showcase 2018 at NYFW Men’s

While the rest of the world zeroed in on soccer’s finalists for the World Cup, the CFDA held a two day event coinciding with New York Fashion Week Men’s to showcase the best of 2018’s graduate fashion designers. Fashion Futures Graduate Showcase presented the work of 53 top-of-the-crop students personally selected by the CFDA in partnership with the New York City Economic Development Corporation. Emerging from 8 of the nation’s top schools the graduates exhibited their portfolios along with looks from their final collections at Industria Studios in Manhattan. The schools represented were Parsons School of Design, Pratt Institute, Fashion Institute of Technology, Rhode Island School of Design, Savannah College of Art and Design, Kent State University, Academy of Art University, and California College of the Arts. The purpose of the event was to provide industry exposure for the most exciting new designers, keeping the talent pipeline flowing into the fashion capital’s garment industry. The group was then further whittled and the following 4 designers were chosen to participate in a presentation on the morning of the final day of New York Fashion Week Men’s.