{"id":346966,"date":"2017-03-14T12:55:17","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T16:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=346966"},"modified":"2017-03-14T12:55:17","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T16:55:17","slug":"harlem-fashion-week-celebrates-success-with-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=346966","title":{"rendered":"Harlem Fashion Week Celebrates Success with Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/ci5.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/407jY7CjeO6pHGwGF3EN8zAHpmfryPlbmo1IYdtk1iYV5OsgKbpPEPV3cceW7qWu8XaBfMHw1pSVQonF5XwCnWN0FhMCWFngizcAXG7WTP5WE-CZpE0jlbKjACl7pdlpSeWQby7hm3_sJY1_Vw_6o5L4YpNhDmQXedF82-zkEXby_S_XJ6c4aqFAjS6-LHDS5LCelyEj6zyCyNB9Jm_naKHjN5dE7jKbHtX1JUJ302gPhVahcu5f7Kc=s0-d-e1-ft#http:\/\/static.wixstatic.com\/media\/68b247_66e11f4d9887474985be9d2b26ae9005~mv2_d_2700_1500_s_2.jpg\/v1\/fill\/w_638,h_354,al_c,lg_1\/crop\/x_0,y_0,w_638,h_215\/image.jpg\" alt=\"Displaying \" \/>To help facilitate the\u00a0growth of the fashion industry in Harlem, on\u00a0March 25th\u00a02017\u00a0Harlem Fashion Week\u00a0will be hosting a business of fashion symposium entitled\u00a0&#8220;The Network&#8221;: Where Fashion and Industry Converge to create Empire.\u00a0This event is for:\u00a0designers, bloggers, photographers, models stylists, MUA everyone in the fashion industry.\u00a0According to Tandra, &#8220;the goal of\u00a0The Network\u00a0is educate fashion industry professionals with the skills necessary to build a brand. Shows are great but we also need to develop a healthy network to support one another, especially in communities of color.&#8221;\u00a0 This impressive event is a follow-up to this year&#8217;s outstanding Harlem Fashion Week success.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/ci3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/E1vS6k_-4RJ_0i63GHTS8f-XwdDw98jh_r0ZMrlWnblQoRT4LtVV7Zx7UNPadNqA_bL1q686a8MX464zLo-J0uv28sfSDMpr-GSiHx4vMyfA8tTNyIyFOLvc1fZpRhWNPhCIXLXqlCW8HfSzLHYbEC-fMVO90UR5c9IVITF6Spd9ITdRZmc4OTrFwAHR2vgU_JRgWRFlbZvd-EET0C5bxi57_UidDweLFw=s0-d-e1-ft#http:\/\/static.wixstatic.com\/media\/68b247_bc132c59456e4bed9dc96f27f89ccfed~mv2.png\/v1\/fill\/w_302,h_454,al_c,lg_1\/crop\/x_0,y_0,w_302,h_440\/image.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The founders of\u00a0Harlem Fashion Week\u00a0are the Powerhouse mother-daughter team of\u00a0Tandra Birkett\u00a0and\u00a0Yvonne Jewnell, owners of the award winning fashion design company\u00a0Yvonne Jewnell New York LLC. Yvonne was educated at Parson The New School and Tandra was educated at Columbia University and combined they used their talent, skill an education to create one of the most innovative, emerging fashion houses.\u00a0 According to Tandra &amp; Yvonne, \u201cthe vision of\u00a0Harlem Fashion Week\u00a0is to create an explosion of culture that will bridge the Downtown fashion hub to the Uptown vibe for a rich cultural experience\u201d. Tandra shares,\u00a0\u201cHarlem has always been a trailblazer in the fashion industry; we wanted to create a fashion week to establish that representation within the larger NYFW community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To help facilitate the\u00a0growth of the fashion industry in Harlem, on\u00a0March 25th\u00a02017\u00a0Harlem Fashion Week\u00a0will be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":832535,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12756786],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346966"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=346966"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":346981,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346966\/revisions\/346981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/832535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=346966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=346966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=346966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}