Hailed as the award-winning creator of New York Fashion Week, Fern Mallis has been called an industry titan, Fashion doyenne, and the godmother of Fashion. After two decades at the CFDA and IMG Fashion,Fern is now President of her own international consulting firm.
Mallis is the recipient of numerous industry awards including the 2013 Fashion Industry LifetimeAchievement Award from the Pratt Institute, the 2013 FIT President’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Icon of Innovation Award from Fashion Group International in 2022. She was inducted into Business of Fashion’s BoF 500 Hall of Fame in 2014 and serves on the board of the FIT Foundation.
For the last 11 years, Mallis famously hosts the acclaimed and sold-out 92nd Street NY conversation series Fashion Icons with Fern Mallis. She is the author of the book series chronicling this series by Rizzoli, andsponsored by Nordstrom.
