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Lafayette 148 will launch a campaign Friday titled #UnordinaryWomen featuring 16 inspiring, trailblazing women, in recognition of International Women’s Day. Read The Article

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews industry legend Fern Mallis, who created the modern New York Fashion Week and helmed the influential Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) for 10 years. Read The Article

Looking to give the glitzy bedazzler his due after more than 50 years in the fashion industry, Fern Mallis said she has been trying to get him to commit to the stage for a year. About a year ago, the Fashion Icons interviewer started the process. “Booking people for this is not exactly easy,” she said, adding that news reports of the Cher-inspired Broadway show only made her more impassioned to seek him out. Read The Article

Fern Mallis moderates a lively discussion about the evolution of accessories over the years and how a statement piece can tell a story and develop a character or brand. The leading costume designers from award-winning shows, films, and theater works share how they approach and shape the way stories are told today with jewelry. Read The Article

There is always a first time for everything and who better to remember the first time that New York Fashion Week was centralized than Stan Herman and Fern Mallis. Read The Article

The article, entitled "UB's fashion icon: Mallis put American designers 'on the map'", profiles Fern's journey from University of Buffalo to co-founding New York's Fashion Week and becoming an icon of the fashion industry. Read The Article

The article, entitled "Thom Browne On The Kardashians, Ignoring Naysayers And Doing Things His Way", details his discussion with Fern Mallis at the 92nd Street Y about everything from being an aimless college kid to hanging around Los Angeles to getting hired by Ralph Lauren. Read the Article

Fern's upcoming discussion with Anna Sui at Nashville Fashion Week is featured in WWD magazine. Anna Sui and Fern Mallis will be the featured guests at Nashville Fashion Week, a city-wide celebration of Nashville's fashion and retail community. “NFW Fashion Talks with Fern Mallis and Anna Sui” will take place April 6 at 3:00 PM at Union Station Hotel. Sponsored by Union Station Hotel and UAL, the event will include a VIP reception, where guests will receive a signed copy of

I am SO excited to share with you that I will be interviewing the legendary Thom Browne at my next Fashion Icons with Fern Mallis event at the 92nd Street Y on April 21st at 7:30 PM. With a business bigger than that of The Row or Proenza Schouler and critically lauded fashion shows that often feel like avant-garde performance pieces, Browne has demonstrated that he knows what he’s doing on both the art and commerce sides of the fashion coin. I am sure this will be a wonderfu

Stella McCartney and Fern Mallis were honored with Humanitarian awards at the second annual David Lynch Foundation Women of Vision event. Read The Article

Nashville Fashion Week, the city's longest-running fashion industry event, announced Tuesday morning that iconic fashion designer Anna Sui and legendary New York Fashion Week founder Fern Mallis will be featured guests during the event set next month. Read the Article

Fern Mallis has been named director of the FIT Foundation. The FIT Foundation is a not-for-profit corporation that builds long-term support that furthers the purpose of the Fashion Institute of Technology. As a director, Mallis will serve as a mentor, industry liaison, advocate and philanthropic adviser to advance the mission and vision of FIT. Read the article at WWD .

On Tuesday night, Eileen Fisher sat down with Fern Mallis for her 92Y “Fashion Icon” series, whereby the two matching fashion vets – they donned the same Eileen Fisher tunic — engaged in a candid conversation about the establishment and upkeep of the designer’s environmental and social-friendly namesake label. Read The Article

On April 28th, 2017, The Hetrick-Martin Institute, the nation’s oldest and largest organization specializing in serving and advocating for LGBTQ youth, honored fashion legend Fern Mallis – creator of New York Fashion Week and President of Fern Mallis LLC, and Erika Karp – founder and CEO of Cornerstone Capital, for their first women’s focused event. HMI CEO Thomas Krever said “Business leaders like Erika Karp and icons like Fern Mallis are carving the path for the generation