Fashion Calendar x CFDA 
Capturing the current history of New York Fashion Week is just as important as preserving its past. Since the CFDA took stewardship of the Fashion Calendar, we’ve understood the value of maintaining this living record. The Archiving NYFW: FCRD x CFDA initiative continues that mission — honoring Ruth Finley’s trust in CFDA as the organizer of NYFW and ensuring that the evolution of American fashion is documented for generations to come.
The Fashion Calendar Research Database and the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) have partnered on the next phase of the FCRD initiative to ensure the preservation and accessibility of archival resources relating to New York Fashion Week and the fashion and creative communities of the United States.
The Archiving New York Fashion Week: FCRD x CFDA collaboration brings the New York Fashion Week timeline to the present. Since 2015, The Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) has independently managed the CFDA Fashion Calendar, the official New York Fashion Week (NYFW) schedule. This ongoing initiative integrates fashion show listings and data from the CFDA Fashion Calendar from 2015 to 2025 into the Fashion Calendar Research Database, ensuring that this open-source research tool continues to reflect the fashion and creative communities of the United States.
events listed in CFDA Fashion Calendar from 2015 to the first half of 2025
individual designers/brands held events between 2015 and 2025
completely new designers, brands and organizations since 2015
Users can now browse, map and graph the listings for NYFW shows from 2015-2025 and learn more about the impact of American fashion at home and worldwide!
How To
Users can now browse fashion shows and events from 1941 to 2025. Almost 6,000 CFDA Fashion Calendar events and associated data (2015-2025) is now included in the over 200,000 listings in the FCRD.
CFDA Fashion Calendar is the official scheduler of New York Fashion Week (NYFW), New York Fashion Week Men’s, and Bridal Market Week in New York, as such the listings correspond to events held during the market weeks. As of 2020, CFDA Fashion Calendar listings include events hosted by American designers and brands in regions and cities around the world.
By clicking the “Refine” tab and the “CFDA Fashion Calendar” button, users can focus their search within the Fashion Calendar and/or CFDA Fashion Calendar, generate data visualizations and learn about NYFW and American fashion from the past decade.
CFDA Fashion Calendar event hosts (designers and/or organizations who have listed their fashion shows and events) have been indexed with category and identity tags, which users can select for search optimization.
Users can perform full-text searches by typing names and/or words in the search bar. Tip: when performing a full-text search using quotation marks will generate listings with the specific term and not all listings with words containing the letters.
CFDA Fashion Calendar listings often include descriptions that are searchable by using the full-text search. Tip: to generate listings for New York Fashion Week runway fashion shows, perform a full-text search with the term “runway” and then refine the search limits to the CFDA Fashion Calendar, for example.
Notice: Contact information for the brands and companies listed in the CFDA Fashion Calendar have been redacted.
Acknowledgements
FCRD x CFDA Advisory Board members:
Steven Kolb, CEO of CFDA
Fern Mallis, President Fern Mallis LLC
Jeffrey Banks, Fashion Designer
Bridget Foley, Former Senior Editor, WWD
Amy Fine Collins, Contributor, Vanity Fair
Ivan Shaw, Photo Archive Director, Condé Nast
James LaForce, Laforce PR
Director and Principal Investigator
Natalie Nudell, History of Art
Co-Principal investigator and Digital Lead/Developer
Joseph Anderson
The Fashion Calendar Research Database (FCRD) launched in November 2023 and was the culmination of "The Ruth Finley Collection: Digitizing 70 Years of the Fashion Calendar," a collaborative digital humanities project organized by The History of Art Department, School of Liberal Arts and Special Collections and College Archives, The Gladys Marcus Library at the Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York. This project was supported by a Digitizing Hidden Collections grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). The grant program is made possible by funding from the Mellon Foundation.