Impressions of the Fashion Forward Network delegation trip to New York City in April 2024. It was an eventful week for us and the twelve participating companies.

We would like to thankAVENIR, DR. BAUM, HADERLUMP, IMPARI, Kasia Kucharska, Natascha von Hirschhausen, PLATTE Berlin, REFRAMD, RICHERT BEIL, SANE Standard, SF1OG and SOCIÉTÉ ANGELIQUE.

The internationalization project Fashion Forward Network (FFN) of the Fashion Council Germany and the innovation agency Sqetch brought twelve Berlin fashion labels & tech start-ups to New York City on a second delegation trip in April. The overarching goal of the initiative is to support Berlin companies in their market entry into the USA and to provide them with relevant and future-oriented business contacts. The two-year project is financed by the Senate Department for Economic Affairs, Energy and Enterprises and the European Union. This year, the trip was also accompanied by the chairwoman of the FCG, Christiane Arp, and the Berlin State Secretary for Economic Affairs, Michael Biel.

Fashion Forward Network is a project of the Fashion Council Germany and the innovation platform Sqetch. The initiative is supported by a state program that is financed from ERDF funds and from funds from the state of Berlin.