January 18, 2024
The nonprofit launched by Harlem’s Style Row has a brand new scholarship in partnership with luxurious retailer Nordstrom.
The nonprofit launched by Harlem’s Style Row has a brand new scholarship in partnership with luxurious retailer Nordstrom.
As a part of Nordstrom’s rising partnership with Harlem’s Style Row (HFR) via its nonprofit ICON360, the retailer introduced how the scholarship will proceed ICON360’s mission to supply monetary help to Black designers and style applications at traditionally Black schools and universities (HBCUs) and assist advance marginalized expertise via academic programming.
“Because the founder and CEO of Harlem’s Style Row, I do know firsthand the boundaries in our business. ICON360 is worked up to accomplice with Nordstrom to supply extra pathways for the subsequent technology of Black designers and HBCU style college students,” Brandice Daniel, founder and CEO of Harlem’s Style Row and ICON360, stated.
“Collectively, we are able to create a extra equitable style business that displays the variety of our communities and celebrates the distinctive views and skills of designers of colour.”
Launched in 2007, HFR aimed to supply designers of colour with the popularity they deserved in an business that had traditionally ignored them. Now, with over 15 years of expertise, HFR has emerged as a number one company that builds connections between manufacturers and designers of colour within the style world.
Via its initiatives, HFR aids numerous style designers with model technique, collaborations, new media engagement, experiential advertising, recruitment, and pipeline applications with notable manufacturers and retailers like Nordstrom.
Nordstrom has been partnered with NFW for years, becoming a member of the company at its annual Style Present and Type Awards, Designer Tech Summit, and Black Historical past Month Style Summit. It’s a part of Nordstrom’s dedication to work with professional organizations that enhance pathways for numerous communities and foster an equitable style business.
“Nordstrom set bold market variety and fairness commitments. To achieve these targets, we have to put money into improved pathways for style, design and retail expertise,” stated Colleen Mitchell, senior director of variety, fairness, inclusion and belonging at Nordstrom.
“ICON360 has constructed genuine relationships with HBCUs to attach with and foster rising expertise. We look ahead to constructing on our work collectively to create extra pathways for future style and retail leaders.”
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