START UP BOOT CAMP

BRAND CREATION + PRODUCT DESIGN + CREATIVE CAMPAIGNS

If you’re in the initial stages of launching a Brand, then foundation courses in Start-Up Workshops are where you want to begin. The most important factors during launch are Brand Identity, Product Differentiation, and brining your Design to Life.

PROFESSORS

Experts walk us through the process and tools available that can help bring your ideas to life. Learn from the best as they share their stories, skills, shortcuts, failures, and successes. Benefit from case studies and examples that serve as life lessons. This is education for the idealist.

INGRUN VON KEUDELL

ERIC WRIGHT

SAADIA ZAFAR

ZORAN KOZOMARA

MAURO GALLIGARI

KRISTEN INGERSOLL

EMIN KADI

ANASTASIA KHOZISOVA

ANTOINE VERGALAS

MARIE AUDIER D'ALESSANDRIS

ENTREPRENEURIAL LABS

WHOLESALE + TRADE SHOWS + ONLINE + TEAM + FASHION TECH + PLANS + CAPITAL RAISE

It’s easy to do what you love but Fashion is a Business and passion will only get you so far. The Art of Scaling Workshops show how to take dreams and turn them into earnings. You cant multi-task during this one, start with the mission to resolve a real, urgent need through an ambitious business concept, get the tools to build a team, the legal structure, and generate demand to show investors true valuation.


Our faculty bring cross-disciplinary backgrounds to this program, pulling from corporate governance, information technology, finance, and marketing. Through a mix of skills we deliver proven techniques for scaling your business.

PROFESSORS

Learn from experts that have lead Showrooms in Paris for Giambattista Valli, Yohji Yamamoto Y-3, and curated brands for ENK Vegas, Project, and Who’s Next. Real world examples of what buyers look for from merchants at Farfetch and Moda Operandi. Finally learn to develop investor pitch decks from those that have been on both ends of raising and funding.

ZORAN KOZOMARA
SUNNI SPENCER
GES ISAJ
ASLAUG MAGNUSDOTTIR
SAL KHOKHAR
FRANCESCO MAIO
MORTIMER SINGER
VICTOR GAVRILOV

LEADERSHIP MASTER CLASSES

Experts walk us through the process and tools available that can help bring your ideas to life. Learn from the best as they share their stories, skills, shortcuts, failures, and successes. Benefit from case studies and examples that serve as life lessons and motivate us that anything is possible.

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