Workshop & Webinars

Custom Collaborative

We partnered with Custom Collaborative, a New York City-based entrepreneurship and workforce development program that trains and supports women from low-income and immigrant communities to launch fashion careers and businesses, to produce PPE gowns. anyone who is interested in joining. 

Timmy Johnson, our designer & YouTube instructor led a workshop for Custom Collaborative (open to general public) over Zoom where she demonstrated the step by step process of making a PPE gown using MadeByUs pre-cut materials.

 

Webinars

Columbia University School of General Studies FASHION INDUSTRY RESPONSE TO COVID19 May, 2020
"After discussing the fashion industry’s response to the coronavirus liftoff, including their own personal protective equipment efforts, the founders of Fashion Girls for Humanity addressed how the business is changing in a virtual talk.
Presented by the School of General Studies at Columbia University, the panel was moderated by Cecilia Dean. FGFH’s Kikka Hanazawa, Julie Gilhart, Miki Higasa and Tomoko Ogura offered insights about supply chain transparency, sustainability and effective cost-cutting, among other issues weighing on the industry. " --WWD
YKK Webinar WORKING TOGETHER TO SOLVE THE PPE CRISIS July, 2020