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FTL MODA Designers SS2016 & Featuring Model Madeline Stuart model with Down Syndrome

FTL MODA Designers SS2016 & Featuring Model Madeline Stuart model with Down Syndrome

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FTL MODA has joined forces with the Christopher & Dana Reeve as a nonprofit partner for NYFW Spring/Summer 2016 (SS2016) for its presentation on September 13, 2015 at the historic Vanderbilt Hall at Grand Central Station. With a shared mission to push boundaries and challenge disability stereotypes on runways and beyond, the upcoming chapter of FTL MODA at NYFW promises to impact the global fashion scene.

In a groundbreaking event last February, FTL MODA’s finale show featured models from around the world living with disabilities, setting a critical precedent about inclusion and the importance of redefining fashion industry standards. By partnering with the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation and Global Disability Inclusion, FTL MODA will once again cast a diverse range of models, including models living with disabilities, as part of the lineup for the upcoming SS2016 catwalk.

“We are extremely proud and very excited about this alliance with the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation, an esteemed nonprofit recognized for driving innovative research and improving the quality of life for those living with paralysis. We share their steadfast commitment to raising awareness for the paralysis community and together, we will break down barriers to achieve total inclusion for models living with disabilities across the most prestigious runways of the world. By challenging the stereotypes surrounding disability, we will truly create fashion free from confines,” said FTL MODA Producer Ilaria Niccolini. “We are also thrilled to confirm our partnership with Global Disability Inclusion, LLC. After our synergy for the February show in NY and fashion week in Milan, Italy we are pleased to have their participation in the September 2015 show,” concluded Niccolini.

At the core of the fashion industry is a forward-thinking and ever-changing notion of beauty: a concept that should not only apply to the clothes, but to those who wear them.

For this SS 2016 presentation, FTL MODA will also proudly collaborate with renowned advocate, Madeline Stuart, the Australian teen model with Down Syndrome.

FTL MODA continues its tradition of showcasing outstanding and prestigious designers. The selection of designers for FTL MODA SS2016 includes Carmen Steffens (Brazil), Anna’s Loud (Italy), Wild (Germany), Archana Korchhar (India), Alexandra Frida (the Netherlands), and Hendrik Vermeulen (South Africa). The opening show will feature acclaimed South American brand Carmen Steffens, debuting at NYFW with world-class top models and special VIPs in attendance. The shows promise to be innovative and cutting-edge under the dramatic make-up direction of top international MUA Einat Dan and Valeria Orlando.

A two-day showroom activation will follow the FTL MODA runway presentation at the Fitzpatrick Manhattan, on September 16th and 17th, with highly renowned fashion blogger and ASVOFF Film Festival President Diane Pernet as the keynote speaker.

About FTL MODA
Founded in 2006 by Ilaria Niccolini Production, FTL Moda has been presenting runway shows internationally and has established itself within the Italian fashion community as a bridge for Proudly Made in Italy to showcase at an International level. FTL MODA has been recognized by the Italian government of the Region of Lombardy as the official platform to support Made in Italy in the world. After the third season with Mercedes Benz Fashion Week New York, the FTL MODA platform makes a step further as an official platform under the umbrella of the Council of Fashion Designers of America in one of the most prestigious venues in NYC.

About the Reeve Foundation
The Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation is dedicated to curing spinal cord injury by funding innovative research and improving the quality of life for people living with paralysis through grants, information and advocacy. We meet all 20 of the Better Business Bureau’s standards for charity accountability and hold the BBB’s Charity Seal.

About Global Disability Inclusion
Global Disability Inclusion, LLC is a boutique consulting firm providing disability inclusion strategies for global companies and U.S. Federal Contractors. Our work helps companies realize the business benefits of including people with disabilities in the workplace, the workforce and the marketplace.

Emerge Designers NYFW Event at Broad St Ballroom-2014

Emerge Designers NYFW Event at Broad St Ballroom-2014

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Emerge! A fashion runway show is one of the leading collective showcases for emerging designers, which catapults an eclectic ensemble of artists every season during New York Fashion Week. These aspiring fashion designers from around the world showcase their artistic genius with amazing collections that power down the runway. Hundreds of designer submissions are reviewed by an elite designer committee, which selects six of the top designers from around the world. Emerge which take place February and September each year, has been consistent in providing a national outlet for emerging designers to showcase their work.

This year’s Fashion Innovator Award went to model, actress, and businesswoman Beverly Johnson. She made history when she rose to fame as the first black model to appear on the cover of American Vogue in August 1974. A year later, she became the first black woman to appear on the cover of the French edition of Elle. Beverly Johnson was kind enough to let World Liberty TV interview her.

Created and produced by the D. Williams Public Relations Group, this invite only affair plays host to retail buyers, fashion influencers, top fashion editors, tastemakers, socialites and an amazing array of celebrities.

Williams Public Relations & Event Management Group is recognized as one of the best consultants. Besides generating plenty of good ink, they provide the strategic public relations approach needed to connect your business with prospects, customers and other key audiences. They can provide global public relations support wherever you need it.
World Liberty TV fashion team was on hand to view the amazing Emerge Fashion Show produced by D. Williams PR.

Exclusive Interview with Award Winning Costume Designer/Stylist and Fashion Designer Patricia Field at Helen Yarmark’s PH – The Iconic Crown Building, New York, 2013

Exclusive Interview with Award Winning Costume Designer/Stylist and Fashion Designer Patricia Field at Helen Yarmark’s PH – The Iconic Crown Building, New York, 2013

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Field was born in 1941 in New York City to a Greek father and an Armenian mother, who emigrated from Plomari, Lesbos, Greece. She was raised in Astoria, Queens and has claimed credit for inventing the modern legging for women’s fashion in the 1970s. She is the owner of the eponymous boutique Patricia Field.

Field met Sarah Jessica Parker during the filming of 1995’s Miami Rhapsody. The actress became so enchanted with Field’s collections that they became friends and continued working with her on the series Sex and the City. Before beginning the first season of the Sex and the City television series on HBO, Parker asked to have Field design some of the clothes that her character, Carrie Bradshaw, would wear. During Field’s tenure as costume designer on Sex and the City, the show became famous for the fashions showcased.

For her work on Sex and the City, Field was nominated for five Emmy Awards, with one win, and nominated for six Costume Designers Guild awards, with four wins. She is one out of six Honorees of the 2008 Reel Time Film Festival. She went on to return as Costume Designer for Sex and the City: the Movie (2008) and the sequel Sex and the City 2 (2010). She worked in the Asian market by creating the fashion behind the Chinese feature film “杜拉拉升职记” (Go Lala Go) (2010). Her most recent project is Taiwanese television series, The Material Queen. Field’s television credits include Hope & Faith and Ugly Betty. She served as costume designer for the feature film The Devil Wears Prada, for which she was nominated for an Oscar for Best Costume Design, although in an extensive interview included as a bonus feature on the film’s DVD release, she admits she dressed the cast by gathering garments from other designers’ ready-to-wear collections rather than creating them herself.

Field, who is openly lesbian, was for many years romantically committed to costume designer Rebecca Weinberg (Field), with whom she has partnered on Sex & the City and Spin City.

She appeared as the first guest judge during the first season of the Bravo reality television series Project Runway. Her eponymous boutique was featured in a 2007 episode of Kathy Griffin’s reality show My Life on the D-List, as well as on a 2008 episode of Paris Hilton’s My New BFF. She designed the outfits in Namie Amuro’s music videos for her three songs New Look, Rock Steady, and What A Feeling from her single 60s 70s 80s, as well as Anna Vissi’s music videos for Stin Pyra and Alitissa Psihi from her album Apagorevmeno. In 2011, she designed all or most of the outfits for the characters in a Taiwan drama called Material Queen.

World Liberty TV was on hand at the Helen Yarmark’s PH at The Iconic Crown Building NY where Ms. Field was doing the styling for The Helen Yarmak line.

Pat Cleveland: First Black Supermodel, 2013

Pat Cleveland: First Black Supermodel, 2013

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Cleveland studied at New York’s High School of Art and Design, where her first love was fashion. By her early teens, she was designing and wearing her own creations. Her modelling career began by accident in 1967 when she was spotted on a New York subway by Carrie Donovan, an assistant editor at Vogue. The 14-year-old was on her way to classes at LaGuardia Performing Arts School when, “This assistant followed me,” Cleveland recalled. “My girlfriend said, ‘You better run. There’s a dyke chasing you’. I said, ‘What’s a dyke?’”

After working with Ebony, Cleveland began to attract the attention of the major fashion designers of the day, working first with famous names such as Jacques Tiffeau and Stephen Burrows. Soon she was meeting and working with all of fashion’s top playmakers, including Diana Vreeland, Irving Penn and Andy Warhol. But despite her early success Cleveland grew disillusioned with America and its racist attitudes towards black models. One day, fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez invited her to try her luck in Milan and Paris instead.

Cleveland returned to United States in 1974 (the year of US Vogue’s first black cover model), and continued modelling into the 1980s. She went into semi-retirement after getting married and giving birth to two children, Anna and Noel. Today she still makes intermittent appearances on television and on the runway.

Ringing Bell Robes by Native Indian Designer Lynda Kay Peters from Canada, 2013

Ringing Bell Robes by Native Indian Designer Lynda Kay Peters from Canada, 2013

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Artist and fashion designer Linda Kay is an Ojibway/Cree born in Red Lake, Ontario and now a member of the Seabird Island Band in British Columbia. Linda has had a strong interest in sewing and fashion from an early age.
In 1996, Linda’s interest in designing native clothing was inspired by Carol Starlight Mason, a fashion designer from the Blood reserve in Alberta, who became Linda’s mentor and creative inspiration. Linda is known for her distinctive vests, coats, and jackets for men, women and children.
Her most recent designs include formal wear and traditional dance regalia. Some of Linda’s designs are her own creations depicting her Ojibway/Cree heritage, and others are her interpretations of the Coast Salish/Sto: lo culture. She is inspired by various other First Nation artists and likes to promote and ensure their recognition.
Ringing Bell Robes is the name of Linda Kay’s fashion line, derived from her Cree name “Kaysaywaysemat.” Her creations have sparked interest in communities across Canada and she has shown her designs in British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, Saskatchewan and Montana.
A recent honor was being selected, along with 10 other First Nation designers from across Canada, to show her fashions at the National Aboriginal Music Awards and the Skydome Powwow held in Toronto, Ontario.
Linda has been coordinating fashion shows since 1997. Noticing how her young models experienced such a sense of pride after participating in one of her fashion shows, she began a youth self-esteem focusing on image, teamwork, leadership, and modeling.
The successful program gives youth a peek into the fashion industry and provides them with an opportunity to participate in a fashion show; either on the runway or behind the scenes.
With a background in administration and Aboriginal Community Economic Development, Linda has dedicated the last 30+ years of her life to working in Aboriginal communities. Her goals are to continue working with First Nations people, jingle dress dance, teach her grandchildren about their culture, travel to new countries and open her own arts, gifts and designer wear shop.

Fashions Night Out at Shehnaai Couture – 2012

Fashions Night Out at Shehnaai Couture – 2012

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Shehnaai is the brainchild of entrepreneurial couple Shirin and Sanjeev Vinayak whose vision and close connections within India’s fashion industry has given them a selection of clothing that is on-trend with its South Asian-American clientele.

Says Shirin Vinayak, “The reason Shehnaai has done so well for the 7 years we have been open is because we work very closely with our customers and are in-tune with their fashion preferences. Also, since we are in Manhattan’s fashion district, we are well aware of current mainstream trends. It’s this combined vision for which we are known for.”

Carrying only high-end labels, Shehnaai Couture has long been known as the go-to place for India’s Couture Collections in New York City. Now with an expanded showroom on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan’s Fashion District, Shehnaai’s collections of lehngas, saris, sherwanis and suits represent the biggest designers out of India.

Shehnaai houses the latest collections from a hand-selected mix of established and upcoming designers. Labels such as Sabyasachi, Vikram Phadnis, Prriya & Chintan, Amber & Shirrin, Private Collections by Zeenat Sayani and Neeta Bhargava mix with newcomers such as SaanShe, Zene by Priya and Farzeen, Bhanuni by Jyoti Sharma and Sapana Amin. Each of Shehnaai’s designers has established brand presence in India and each collection is indicative of the designer’s individuality. Multi-designers and seasonal rotation keeps the boutique completely on trend with the fashion of India.

With its unique product line, personalized service and recurring designer trunk shows and seasonal fashion shows, Shehnaai Couture bridges the distance between New York City and India’s Runway Couture.

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