Underfashion Club

The Underfashion Club is a non-profit fashion industry group[1] dedicated to "all facets of the intimate apparel industry: foundations, daywear, sleepwear, robes, and loungewear".[2][3][4]

History and operations

Originally established in 1958 as the Corset and Brassiere Women's Club, Inc., in 1963 the group was re-invented as the Underfashion Club.[2][3] In 2014, Victor Vega was the president.[3] Periodically, the organization holds seminars about the fashion industry by members of the industry,[5][6] such as Mayouri Sengchanh.[7]

The Underfashion Club annual gala is "recognized as a premier event in the intimate apparel industry".[8]

Scholarship

The Underfashion Club administers the Mary Krug Scholarship, "which will benefit fashion lingerie students in the intimates field".[4] The scholarship is named after Mary Krug, who was vice president and divisional merchandise manager of intimate apparel and children’s at the Neiman Marcus Group for 40 years.[4] Krug died in November 2013.[4]

The Underfashion Club established a chair at the Fashion Institute of Technology.[3]

Femmy Award

The Underfashion Club awards the Femmy Awards at Cipriani 42 Street in New York. On 4 February 2014, Caroline Rhea hosted the event.[4]

Past events
  • In 1986, Olga Erteszek and her daughter, Christina Erteszek, were honored with the New York's Underfashion Club's Femmy Award.
  • In 2008, Elle Macpherson was named Lingerie Designer of the Year by the Underfashion Club's Femmy Awards.
  • In 2010, Awatef Rasheed Arabic: عواطف تركي رشيد an Iraqi Canadian writer, secular women’s rights activist, and the first Iraqi female recipient of Femmy Award.[9]
  • In 2013, Carson Kressley hosted the award event.[8]
    • Supplier: Lenzing Textile Fibers.[10] Andreas Dorner, Lenzing’s global marketing director for the Textile Fibres Group, accepted the award.[11]
    • Retailer: Bloomingdale's
    • Manufacturer: Cosabella
    • Innovation: Haute Look
    • Lifetime Achievement: Josie Natori
    • 2013 Femmy Awards Student Design Contest was won by Tiffany Spagnuolo, for her "Dark Bloom" design; Tessa Saccone won second place for "Moonlit Azaleas"; Sara Shanahan won third place for "Nocturnal Blossom".[8]

Donations raised during the Femmy Gala are used to fund students, who pursue college–level intimate apparel related courses.[3]

References
  1. "Underfashion Club Inc in Clinton Cors, New York (NY)". NonProfitFacts.com. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
  2. Rupp, Jürg (4 March 2013). "The Rupp Report: And The Femmy Goes To ..." Textile World Asia News. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
  3. "The Underfashion Club". Retrieved 29 January 2014.
  4. Monget, Karyn (29 January 2014). "Innerwear Industry Raising Funds for Mary Krug Scholarship". WWD. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
  5. Monget, Karyn (6 October 2012). "Crisis Management Focus of Underfashion Club Seminar". WWD. Retrieved 29 January 2008.
  6. Monget, Karyn (20 October 2011). "Underfashion Club Seminar: Lingerie Looks Abound". WWD. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
  7. Monget, Karyn (9 August 2012). "Diplomacy, Fashion Underscore Underfashion Club Seminar". WWD. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
  8. "Tiffany Spagnuolo, Tessa Saccone, and Sara Shanahan Win the 2013 Femmy Awards Student Design Contest". Fashion Institute of Technology. 25 February 2013. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
  9. "Two CRIAW Board Members Receive Femmy Award - March 2010". Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women. Archived from the original on 24 December 2013. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
  10. "Lenzing achievements recognized by intimate apparel industry". Knitting Industry. 6 March 2013. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
  11. "Femmy recognition for Lenzing". Ecotextile News. 28 January 2013. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
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