The Fashion Group International® Inc is a global, non-profit, professional organization with over 5000 members in the fashion industry including apparel, accessories, beauty and home. The Fashion Group International® Inc mission is to be the pre-eminent authority on the business of fashion and design and to help its members become more effective in their careers. To do this, The Fashion Group International® Inc provides insights on major trends in person, online and in print; access to business professionals and a gateway to the influence fashion plays in the marketplace.
The Fashion Group International® of Greater Washington, DC, Inc focuses on providing our membership, primarily comprised of entrepreneurs, with knowledge, tools, and resources to grow and strengthen their businesses. We also provide a community for networking and relationship-building with like minded professionals.
It all began in 1928 when 17 women, gathered by Edna Woolman Chase, Editor-in-Chief of Vogue, met for lunch in a modest midtown New York restaurant.
They had three things in common: Each held a job of consequence in the business of fashion, each held all the others in high regard and together they held a belief that fashion needed a forum, a stage, or a force to express and enhance a widening awareness of the American fashion business and of women's roles in that business.
The Fashion Group®, conceived at an informal luncheon in 1928 became an organization in 1930, with a place, a purpose, by-laws, officers and women eager to be members.
Some of those Founding and Charter members were Elizabeth Arden, Margaret Case, Eleanor Roosevelt, Helena Rubinstein, Julia Coburn, Lilly Dache, Jessica Daves, Nan Duskin, Edith Head, Eleanor LeMaire, Claire McCardell, Clare Potter, Virginia Pope, Dorothy Shaver, Adele Simpson, Carmel Snow, and Miss Tobé.
Their first office space was donated by Louis Fairchild in his Women's Wear Daily building on East 12th Street. The second office space was at 572 Madison Avenue, donated by Harper's Bazaar. Then in 1934, from the minutes of the Board meeting of October 18: Discussion as to how to meet the rent of the contemplated space in 30 Rockefeller Center included a Fashion Group party using talent within the membership lampooning fashion, to be known as The Fashion Follies™.
Today, The Fashion Group® offers membership to both men and women.
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Boots Harris
Please give me a call at 301-466-9344, I'd like to find out more about FGI DC.
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Hello, please send us an email at info@fgidc.org and we will connect you with our Membership Chair.