Global apparel consulting firm, Alvanon, has granted world-class technical tools to the Council of Fashion Designers of America’s (CFDA) Fashion Manufacturing Initiative, for the second consecutive year.
The initiative was taken under the Alvanon’s Fashion Fit Movement – a programme designed to help restore technical skills to New York City and other global fashion hubs including Hong Kong and London. CFDA in turn has awarded these tools to Design Incubator and Sunrise Studio, which are two fashion firms based in New York. The tools that have been granted are AlvaForm technical fit mannequins, technical grading blocks and Virtual AlvaForms.
“Alvanon’s forms are wonderful, and very well designed. Our pattern makers love them. The other forms we have probably were designed a hundred years ago and haven’t been update by those companies in ages,” averred Amy Fong, Owner, Design Incubator. Design Incubator develops design concepts from sketch to finished products for clients like Creatures of the Wind, Tommy Hilfiger, Michael Kors, Derek Lam, Mara Hoffman and Timo Weiland.
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The other firm, Sunrise Studio Inc. is a specialized firm for high-end sample making and production with over 65 skilled workers who work on a vibrant range from silk chiffon to leather, woven and knits. The firm caters to brands like Helmut Lang, Proenza Schouler, The Row, Calvin Klein Collection, Marc Jacobs Collection and Urban Zen (Donna Karan’s own collection), Alexander Wang, Rebecca Taylor and 10 Crosby.
Upon providing the grants to CFDA, Alvanon CEO Janice Wang said, “Alvanon is delighted that two of New York’s most promising and creative fashion concerns are recipients of our 2015 technical tools grant to CFDA. We look for both enterprises to steadily emerge in prominence throughout the fashion industry. Each has a laser focus on the technical aspects of product development, which helps bring their breath-taking designs to life and their skilfully finished creations to a grateful global market.”
Under the Fit Movement, Alvanon has been supplying grants and mentoring to a variety of fashion organizations and small businesses, and associations that help bring apparel manufacturing jobs to the US, like the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA).
