FIT launches Design Entrepreneurs 2020

On January 9, the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) launched FIT Design Entrepreneurs, an open-to-anyone “mini-MBA” program that provides specially selected designers the business acumen, resources, and community to grow their companies. The program culminates in a final live pitch event in front of a panel of fashion industry veterans with a 150,000 US dollars in prizes. Since 2011, FIT’s Design Entrepreneurs has helped 202 companies across the country including Chromat, Thistle & Spire, Eckhaus Latta, David Hart, Haus Alkire, Abasi Rosborough and more. The event was attended by incoming candidates such as Victoria Hayes (Victoria Hayes Collection), Jameel Mohammed (KHIRY), and Moya Annece (Ashya), FIT president Dr. Joyce F. Brown, FIT DE alumna Nora Gardner.