SUNROOM NEWS: We're a CFDA & Vogue Grant Recipient!
We're thrilled to announce that Sunroom is a recipient of VOGUE & the CFDA's A Common Thread grant — a fundraising initiative from the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund to provide support for those in the American fashion community impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
We're also among excellent company - many Sunroom designers and friends are recipients as well, including ANAAK, Anna Sheffield, Rachel Comey, Brother Vellies, and Collina Strada (find the full lists of round 1 & 2 here & here).
As a business, as a team, and as individuals, the last few months have pushed us to our limits in ways we could have never imagined. This acknowledgment from the CFDA and Vogue, chaired by such an esteemed group of industry veterans, is deeply meaningful, revitalizing, and timely.
We are honored to be seen and recognized for our work and our pursuit to inspire through the joy of design. We'll continue to do as we do, and keep pushing forward. We're forever grateful to share this space with you — our friends, our community, our family. We thank you for your support now and always.
- The Sunroom Team
The 10-person committee chose a mix of famous and unfamiliar names spread across the country from New York to Los Angeles.... the applications were judged on a set of criteria: need, viability, and feasibility (basically how good of an idea the business is and how likely it is to succeed), geography, and social and cultural relevance. Tom Ford, the chairman of the CFDA; Anna Wintour, editor in chief of Vogue, U.S., and artistic director and global content advisor of Condé Nast; and Steven Kolb, President of the CFDA, had final approval of the committee’s selections.
"Brands that were more entrenched in direct-to-consumer, or that saw an opportunity to pivot to a more direct-to-consumer model, those that were thinking differently in terms of how their brands need to evolve, brands focused on sustainability—those were more likely to get money.” In the end, that meant some of the names were new to the committee. “We tend to live in our universe and [through this process] we saw that the fashion universe is a lot bigger,” said Kolb. “It felt good as an organization to be able to support many we didn’t know and to be introduced to them.”