Corporate Affiliates are businesses who join the CFDA and gain access to the membership by creating meaningful business driven benefits for CFDA Members. In addition, Corporate Affiliates host educational events or roundtables related to their industry expertise and make their services accessible to CFDA Member’s at the most relevant and senior level.
Arnell Group
CIRCA
CURVExpo
Designers & Agents
eBay
Gilt Groupe
Hand Baldachin & Amburgey LLP
Karen Harvey Consulting Group
Lexus
Luxottica Group
Melissa
Printemps
Samsung Fashion and Design Fund
Swarovski
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ARNELL GROUP
Arnell Group has a 30-year history of brand invention and transformation, working with many fashion, retail and luxury brands to create market-smart strategies, iconic advertising, media milestones, breakthrough packaging, intelligent design and brand innovation plans. www.arnell.com.
CIRCA
CIRCA is the leading global buyer of fine jewelry, diamonds and watches from the public. With offices throughout the US, Asia and Europe, they are the only global luxury brand in the jewelry buying business. As one of the largest buyers of jewelry in the world, CIRCA is committed to promoting sustainability by reducing the environmental impact of mining for precious metals and gemstones. CIRCA believes that every diamond put back into the marketplace is one less that has to be mined. For more information, please visit www.circajewels.com.
CURVEXPO
CURVENY New York & CURVENV Las Vegas are the largest and only events of their kind in North America : a leadership presence both on the East coast and the West coast, as an intimate apparel show and a swimwear show. With more than 200 exhibiting brands it is today the only international lingerie and swim show in New York and Las Vegas.
The best lingerie boutiques, the most stylish swimwear retailers and the most prominent department stores coming from all over the world shop the latest in lingerie, men’s underwear, swimwear, activewear and many more.
DESIGNERS & AGENTS
Designers & Agents, a fashion and trade event is an alternative marketplace for designers and retailers who define the cutting edge in fashion and lifestyle. Identifying emerging talent and creating an intimate synergistic environment that fosters relationships between designers and buyers, D&A’s 10 yearly shows, are currently held in New York, Los Angeles, and Paris attracting leading international retailers and media visitors. Their ongoing commitment to supporting sustainable design is represented by their Green leaf and Green room initiatives. D&A’s shows are pre-edited, art-directed, and merchandised to create a sense of camaraderie and discovery between designers and the retail community.
eBay Marketplaces
Founded in 1995 in San Jose, Calif., eBay connects millions of buyers and sellers globally on a daily basis through the world’s largest online marketplace. With more than 90 million active users globally, their collective impact on e-commerce is staggering: In 2009, the total worth of goods sold on eBay was $60 billion — $2,000 every second.
eBay recently introduced eBay Fashion (http://fashion.ebay.com), a new enhanced shopping destination for clothing, shoes and accessories on the world’s largest online marketplace. With advanced features and a stylish new look, eBay Fashion delivers a richer, more visual shopping experience that surfaces and showcases the incredible selection of new, vintage, branded and designer merchandise available on eBay.
HAND BALDACHIN & AMBURGEY LLP
HBA is a New York based boutique law firm working with businesses in all aspects of their corporate life, from formation and day-to-day business matters, through capital restructuring and mergers and acquisitions transactions. HBA focuses on deals across several industries in addition to fashion and lifestyle brands including: sports and entertainment; media; technology and internet. HBA also represents financial institutions, particularly those involved in advising fashion and lifestyle brands, including investment banks, private equity firms, investment advisors and hedge funds. In addition, HBA provides sophisticated legal advice on trademark and copyright registration and infringement issues.
GILT GROUPE
Gilt Groupe is a privately held company dedicated to providing its members with access to coveted fashion and luxury lifestyle brands at sample sale prices. Gilt Groupe hand selects both established and up and coming brands relevant to its membership base. Each Gilt Groupe Shopping Event is designer-specific and held over a one day period. The Gilt Groupe production team creates a short video reel to introduce each designer and brand to its membership. There is no fee associated with joining Gilt Groupe; membership is by invitation only.
KAREN HARVEY CONSULTING GROUP
Karen Harvey is a company that serves a select group of clients that are committed to innovation, creativity, their consumers and their communities. They believe that no one client is exactly like another and there is no one method that will work all the time in developing talent or searching for it. Karen Harvey is committed to obtaining a keen understanding of each of her client’s ethos, culture and vision, so that in finding or developing that talent, they see through the same lens. Karen Harvey Consulting Group offers three primary services: executive search (from CEO’s to Creative Directors), Professional development and storytelling, and strategic partnerships.
LEXUS
Lexus is the leading luxury automaker in the United States. With its reputation for high-quality products and exemplary customer service from its 229 dealers, Lexus has been the top-selling luxury automaker for 11 years in a row. In addition, Lexus is the Luxury hybrid leader, offering five hybrids that provide the best in innovative technology and first-class luxury. To further its commitment to ecologically sustainable practices, Lexus has partnered with the CFDA to launch the second annual CFDA / Lexus Eco-Fashion Challenge which supports CFDA Member’s fashion shows/presentations in February 2012. Three winners will be awarded $25,000 each who best demonstrate their commitment to ecologically responsible and sustainable design/production.
LUXOTTICA GROUP
Luxottica Group is a global leader in fashion eyewear, with nearly 5,500 optical and sun retail stores mainly in North America and Asia-Pacific and a well-balanced portfolio that comprises leading premium house and licensed brands, including Ray-Ban, the best selling sun and prescription eyewear brand in the world. Among others, the Group’s brand portfolio includes house brands Vogue Eyewear, Persol, Arnette and REVO and license brands Bvlgari, Chanel, Donna Karan, Prada, Polo Ralph Lauren and Versace. Luxottica Group’s global wholesale network touches 120 countries, with a direct presence in the key 28 eyewear markets worldwide.
MELISSA
Melissa is a global fashion icon which has manufactured over 50 million pairs of plastic shoes in the past 25 years. Melissa, based in Brazil, transforms plastic spheres into objects of desire. The company has gained worldwide recognition for its brave and creative interpretation of multi-ethnic styles. Melissa’s design partners are a selection of some of the world’s most interesting and creative professionals. The company has sustainable development as a cornerstone of its economic development as a premise which ensures market demands while preserving natural resources. Melissa is on the cutting edge of design and technology.
PRINTEMPS
Printemps, the legendary French department store was founded in 1865. The flagship Printemps store is located on Boulevard Haussmann in the IXe arrondissement of Paris. Printemps has stores in multiple locations in Paris and throughout France. The store has also opened branches outside France, in locations including Andorra, the Ginza shopping district in Tokyo and Jeddah. In 2008 Printemps launched an extensive reinvention of its Haussmann location.
SAMSUNG FASHION AND DESIGN FUND
The Samsung Fashion and Design Fund (SFDF) was launched in 2005 to discover and sponsor talented young Korean designers around the world. SFDF is an initiative of Cheil Industries. Cheil Industries is committed to fulfilling its obligation to society through various volunteer activities, environmental management and support for culture and the arts.
SWAROVSKI
Over a hundred years ago, in 1895, Daniel Swarovski, a Bohemian inventor and visionary, moved to the village of Wattens, Tyrol in Austria, with his newly-invented machine for cutting and polishing crystal jewelry stones. From these beginnings, which revolutionized the fashion world, Swarovski has grown to be the world’s leading producer of precision-cut crystal, for fashion, jewelry, lighting, architecture and interiors. Comprised of two major divisions, one producing and selling loose crystals, the other creating finished products, the Swarovski corporation also includes additional product lines an accessory collection, Atelier Swarovski, chandelier collection Swarovski Crystal Palace as well as Optik, producing precision optical instruments and Enlightened, Swarovski’s brand for genuine and created gemstones. While Swarovski crystal, known by its product brand name CRYSTALLIZED TM– Swarovski elements, has become an essential ingredient of international design, Swarovski’s own-brand accessory, jewelry and home décor lines are sold through more than 600 Swarovski stores and concessions in all major fashion capitals, and the exclusive Daniel Swarovski accessories collection has become the company’s Couture signature.