Fashion for Profit with International Expert and Author Frances Harder 

Have you ever dreamed of taking your design to market?

Ever wondered how you get to design for a celebrity or get their endorsement?

 Ever thought of investing in a new designer’s business? Or product? the next Nike or the next “Green” fashion?

 Well, I know just the person to help us understand the Good, Bad, Ugly and Fantastic of the Fashion business and how to make money investing in that industry. Or finding your Angel investor.

 Meet Frances Harder, fashion designer to royalty, author, speaker, professor and coach.

I love that she recognizes that one of the biggest obstacles to creatives, is the lack of business knowledge. She shares her lessons so you can avoid the pitfalls that happened to her.

Yes! you are a creator, but you are also a small business.

The first time someone in the fashion industry asked me to invest in their product I thought, this is way out of my comfort zone ad wheel house so I investigated more into what it takes to be successful and make a return for me the investors. Wowza!

More about Frances...

Frances Harder Founder/CEO

Frances Harder authored and published a series of books dealing with starting a fashion business.  Fashion for Profit (10th edition), Costing for Profit, Brand Building for Profit and Forms for Profit are industry focused texts used both by new companies and for further education programs. www.fashionforprofit.com.

Consultant to the United Nations assisting small businesses: Peru- Alpaca products, (women owned businesses), Nepal - Cashmere products and recently assisting apparel manufacturer in Egypt enter the U.S. market (2nd contract).

She consults and speaks internationally on product development, branding, merchandising, sustainability, costing, production and entering the US market.

Frances serves as an industry expert in legal disputes.

Organizes and presents seminars at Sourcing at Magic trade shows-(20 years)

Presents on a variety of topics and moderates at many international trade shows both within the US and Internationally.

Adjunct professor at Cal Poly Pomona and serves on the Dean’s advisory board.

In 1999 she founded the FBI (Fashion Business Incorporated), an educational 501c3 organization, which provided vital business development, resources, and certified job training programs to both the US. Closed in 2017 to relaunch under Fashion for Profit Consulting platform as a for profit entity in 2018.

She studied Art and Fashion in the UK. Some of her professional accomplishments include having her name under license in Japan, designing for the Royal House of Brunei and designed two lines for Priscilla Presley that were sold on Home Shopping Club. Her last teaching position was for 9 years as a full time Associate Professor at Otis College of Art and Design (9 years), Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising (FIDM)  (8 years).

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