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Tuesday, September 13, 2011
SUPIMA IN THE NEWS: CNBC
By Nancy Boyd
NEW YORK—The finals of the fourth annual Supima Design Competition yielded some of the most striking images in CNBC’s coverage of fashion week.
In Supima’s front row shown above, that’s (left to right) competition judge Coco Rocha, event emcee Rachel Zoe, and […] Continue reading
Sunday, September 11, 2011
SUPIMA IN THE NEWS: Competition finals in the NYT
By Nancy Boyd
NEW YORK—Photos of the runway finale of Supima’s fourth annual Design Competition form the most striking images in the current New York Times’ slide show devoted to New York Fashion Week. (Both photos shown below by Yana Paskova for The New […] Continue reading
Friday, September 09, 2011
SUPIMA IN THE NEWS: Jusil Carroll in WWD
By Nancy Boyd
NEW YORK—The coverage keeps on coming.
This morning’s Women’s Wear Daily carried news of Jusil Carroll’s win in the live runway finale of the fourth annual Supima Design Competition that opened New York Fashion Week yesterday: SUPIMA’S BEST: Jusil Carroll, […] Continue reading
Thursday, September 08, 2011
AND THE WINNER IS . . . JUSIL CARROLL
By Nancy Boyd
NEW YORK – Jusil Carroll, 34, a 2011 Bachelor of Fine Arts graduate from New York City’s Fashion Institute of Technology, took first place in the Supima Design Competition held earlier today.
In front of the industry elite who packed the Studio tent at Lincoln Center—as well as an international […] Continue reading
Thursday, September 08, 2011
SUPIMA ALL OVER THE NEWS!!!
By Nancy Boyd
NEW YORK—The live runway finals of the fourth annual Supima Design Competition, which kicked off New York Fashion Week earlier today, did not gone unnoticed by the international fashion press.
Japan’s NTDTV.com reported on the runway looks. While, in the […] Continue reading
Thursday, September 08, 2011
BACKSTAGE BEFORE AND AFTER THE SHOW
By Nancy Boyd
Supima emcee Rachel Zoe poses backstage at The Studio tent with Supima Design Competition judge Coco Rocha.
For more about Rachel, check out The Zoe Report. Or check out Coco’s Twitter feed about Fashion Week.
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Thursday, September 01, 2011
Supima Design Competition at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week
By Marc Lewkowitz
On September 8 at 1 PM, Supima will be hosting the fourth annual Supima design Competition in New York during the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week.
Supima is America’s luxury cotton. Founded in 1954, the Supima brand designates an elite variety of Pima cotton grown only in California and the southwestern U.S. […] Continue reading
Thursday, September 01, 2011
The Fourth Annual Supima Design Competition
By Marc Lewkowitz
The fourth annual Supima Design Competition has begun its mad and furious rush to the final event culminating runway fashion show that will be held in New York on September 8 at 1 PM during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week.
This year the Design Competition has taken a different approach towards the […] Continue reading
Saturday, August 27, 2011
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Supima in WWD
By Nancy Boyd
“Dawnelle goes Supima” Advertisement in Women’s Wear Daily Friday, October 26, 1956
Thursday, August 18, 2011
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Lady Manhattan and Supima
By Nancy Boyd
Supima Cotton and Lady Manhattan, April 1957
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
COME SEE AT TEXWORLD AND EXPOFIL!
By Nancy Boyd
PARIS—It’s getting to be that time of year again.
Yep, time to start thinking about Fall/Winter 2012/2013 and Spring/Summer 2013.
And time to start planning your September trip to the Parc d’expositions and Le Bourget outside Paris for the […] Continue reading
Monday, August 15, 2011
FROM THE ARCHIVES: ‘How to Lick a Farm Surplus’
By Nancy Boyd
Reprinted from PRINTER’S INK The Magazine of Advertising, Selling, Marketing February 15, 1957
Agriculture Secretary Benson, in an exclusive P.I. interview two years ago (April 8, 1955, page 27) said: “In this competitive age the market goes to the man who […] Continue reading
Sunday, August 14, 2011
MEET THE DESIGNER: Connie Weng
By Nancy Boyd
A native of Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, 22-year-old Connie Weng graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design earlier this year with a BFA in Apparel Design and aspirations to launch a career in sportswear.
To date, her honors have […] Continue reading
Saturday, August 13, 2011
MEET THE DESIGNER: Marlow Larson
By Nancy Boyd
Gainesville, Georgia native Marlow A. Larson, 22, has been “drawing women ever since I could hold a pencil” and had decided on a design career by the third grade.
At the Savannah College of Art and Design, where he graduated earlier […] Continue reading
Friday, August 12, 2011
MEET THE DESIGNER: Jusil Carroll
By Nancy Boyd
Busan, South Korea native Jusil Carroll, 34, came to fashion after a career in illustration and matriculated at the Fashion Institute of Technology, where she graduated with a BFA in Fashion Design this year, because “it’s one of very few schools […] Continue reading
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