A merry fusion of commerce, culture & community create the trifecta fashion festival known as Fash Fète, New York’s Black Fashion Week.  A global fashion initiative created to provide black fashion designers, retailers, and marketers with a home to showcase their products and services to business-to-business and business-to-consumer audiences.

Hosted annually during August (National Black Business Month) the festival was established to provide solutions to socio-cultural problems and give back to the community.  New York, New York the Fashion Capital of North America, is the stage for the economic engine.

Mission:  Empowering black fashion-preneurs to fulfill their fashion dreams by providing them with a platform for marketing exposure.

Fash Fète

  • is a catalyst for the establishment of new and nurture of existing business and consumer relationships.
  • provides a table for the presentation of a buffet of fashion offerings to satisfy malnourished fashion lovers craving to be served by purveyors of the black fashion diaspora.

"On average, a high fashion magazine is comprised of 99% non-Black designers. Less than 1% of the magazine focuses on Black designers."

Dr. Tameka N. Ellington
Kent State University

"I do feel a responsibility to support our community, but when it comes to designers, what is challenging is their clothes are often not in the stores where I go. I have to hunt them down."

Mellody Hobson
President of Ariel Investments
New York Times

"I was reading that they supported me, but I wasn’t necessarily feeling it,” she says. “What would it take to feel like these people really stood with me?”

“Most of the companies I initially tagged are between 0.8 and 1.8 per cent Black representation,” explains James. “That’s really low. How does that happen? How are they finding these brands? Who are the gatekeepers that are showing them the brands?"

Aurora James
Vogue Business

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