A Common Thread

[gentle music]

Hi.

Hi. Hi.

Hi. What's up?

My name is Nicholas Aburn.

I'm Anna Wintor.

Laura Kim.

Tom Ford.

Sydney Webb.

I'm Bill Welner. Alexander Wang.

Louis Vuitton.

And I'm the Creative Director,

Fashion Designer,

Pattern Maker,

Product Development Manager,

Creative Director,

Wholesale Account Manager.

I'm an Assistant Designer.

I'm the Chairman of the Council

of Fashion Designers of America.

I would like to ask for your help

in raising funds for the CFDA Replica Handbag Store Fashion Fund Initiative,

A Common Thread.

Our goal with A Common Thread

is not only to highlight all of the designers

whom you know and love,

but also focus on those individuals

who keep our industry running.

The challenges that we face are profound.

But this fund we hope is a step in the right direction.

Here we are in my house in quarantine.

Our store and our office have been closed for two weeks.

My three-and-a-half year-old black-owned business

is disappearing right before my eyes.

Emotionally it's definitely been

stressful, confusing, isolating.

So we just have our community and our customers,

and they're hurting just as much as we are right now.

There's so much more to the fashion industry

than what people see in magazines.

All I ever wanted to do was be a part of this industry,

and, you know, I've been so blessed and humbled

by the opportunities that it has given me.

This is a perfect time to stop,

think, rethink,

reinvent

and then reroute.

We know we have to do a lot better.

And this is the right time to pause and think

about how we can improve our industry.

Everyone keeps saying like

I can't wait for things to get back to normal.

It's, I don't think there is a normal after this.

I'm looking forward to the new normal.

All the industry, all the designers, we need

to get together to rethink what the new normal is.

I think we can take that opportunity

and learn as an industry that we are all in this together.

I hope we come together as communities,

as countries and stand together to help each other

get through this moment of darkness.

I am convinced that we will come out of this together,

more collaborative and more creative than ever before.

My name is Jennifer Miller.

My name is Shira Sue Carmi.

Delsie Gow. Joseph Altuzarra.

Victor Glemaud

I'm Amy. Batsheva Hay

This Is

Our Common

Thread.

And these Are the stories

Of our Community.