Here are a few websites that offer opportunities for online and physical world networking for people in the fashion and apparel business:
- Independent Fashion Bloggers. An influential community of fashion bloggers.
- Fashion Retailers. A new social network for retailers. The website is similar to LinkedIn.
- HauteNet. A general fashion social network, also similar to LinedIn. HauteNet has an impressive set of associations, including FIDM and FBI.
- ThreadMe. A social network that aims to connect designers, retailers and showrooms. Allows designers to upload lookbooks and control which other network members can view them.
- LinkedIn. LinkedIn has many fashion, apparel and retail oriented groups. Click on the “Groups” link in the left hand menu of your profile and search for them.
- Fashion-Incubator. Fashion-Incubator has an excellent blog for new designers, but an even better private forum.
- Fashion Business Inc. A educational trade organization with many resources for new apparel manufacturers. Their seminars and other events are good networking opportunities.
- In San Diego, we also have FOCUS and Stiletto Evolution, both of which produce fashion events, sometimes jointly.
- Update: Fashion Collaborative
