Underfashion Club
The Underfashion Club is a non-profit fashion industry group[1] dedicated to "all facets of the intimate apparel industry: foundations, daywear, sleepwear, robes, and loungewear".[2][3][4]
History[edit]
Originally established in 1958 as the Corset and Brassiere Women's Club, Inc., in 1963 the group was re-invented as the Underfashion Club.[2][3] In 2014, Victor Vega was the president.[3] Periodically, the organization holds seminars about the fashion industry by members of the industry,[5][6] such as Mayouri Sengchanh.[7]
The Underfashion Club annual gala is "recognized as a premier event in the intimate apparel industry".[8]
Scholarship[edit]
The Underfashion Club administers the Mary Krug Scholarship, "which will benefit fashion lingerie students in the intimates field".[4] The scholarship is named after Mary Krug, who was vice president and divisional merchandise manager of intimate apparel and children’s at the Neiman Marcus Group for 40 years.[4] Krug died in November 2013.[4]
The Underfashion Club established a chair at the Fashion Institute of Technology.[3]
Femmy Award[edit]
The Underfashion Club awards the Femmy Awards at Cipriani 42 Street in New York. On 4 February 2014, Caroline Rhea hosted the event.[4]
Past events[edit]
- In 1986, Olga Erteszek and her daughter, Christina Erteszek, were honored with the New York's Underfashion Club's Femmy Award.
- In 2008, Elle Macpherson was named Lingerie Designer of the Year by the Underfashion Club's Femmy Awards.
- In 2010, Awatef Rasheed Arabic: عواطف تركي رشيد an Iraqi Canadian writer, secular women’s rights activist, and the first Iraqi female recipient of Femmy Award.[9]
- In 2013, Carson Kressley hosted the award event.[8]
- Supplier: Lenzing Textile Fibers.[10] Andreas Dorner, Lenzing’s global marketing director for the Textile Fibres Group, accepted the award.[11]
- Retailer: Bloomingdale's
- Manufacturer: Cosabella
- Innovation: Haute Look
- Lifetime Achievement: Josie Natori
- 2013 Femmy Awards Student Design Contest was won by Tiffany Spagnuolo, for her "Dark Bloom" design; Tessa Saccone won second place for "Moonlit Azaleas"; Sara Shanahan won third place for "Nocturnal Blossom".[8]
Donations raised during the Femmy Gala are used to fund students, who pursue college–level intimate apparel related courses.[3]
References[edit]
- ^ "Underfashion Club Inc in Clinton Cors, New York (NY)". NonProfitFacts.com. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
- ^ a b Rupp, Jürg (4 March 2013). "The Rupp Report: And The Femmy Goes To ..." Textile World Asia News. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
- ^ a b c d e "The Underfashion Club". Retrieved 29 January 2014.
- ^ a b c d e Monget, Karyn (29 January 2014). "Innerwear Industry Raising Funds for Mary Krug Scholarship". WWD. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
- ^ Monget, Karyn (6 October 2012). "Crisis Management Focus of Underfashion Club Seminar". WWD. Retrieved 29 January 2008.
- ^ Monget, Karyn (20 October 2011). "Underfashion Club Seminar: Lingerie Looks Abound". WWD. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
- ^ Monget, Karyn (9 August 2012). "Diplomacy, Fashion Underscore Underfashion Club Seminar". WWD. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
- ^ a b c "Tiffany Spagnuolo, Tessa Saccone, and Sara Shanahan Win the 2013 Femmy Awards Student Design Contest". Fashion Institute of Technology. 25 February 2013. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
- ^ "Two CRIAW Board Members Receive Femmy Award - March 2010". Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women. Archived from the original on 24 December 2013. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
- ^ "Lenzing achievements recognized by intimate apparel industry". Knitting Industry. 6 March 2013. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
- ^ "Femmy recognition for Lenzing". Ecotextile News. 28 January 2013. Retrieved 29 January 2014.