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" This morning, at something that might be considered a party if it wasn&amp;#039;t at 9 a.m., the Council of Fashion Designers of America kicked off fashion week by announcing a partnership with W Hotels for their Incubator program. Up-and-coming men&amp;#039;s wear designers including Isaora, Number: Lab, Timo Weiland, and Burkman Bros will now have a chance travel to one of the 42 W Hotels Worldwide (not the Maldives one, though, for obvious reasons) and gain some inspiration for their next collections. And they all created moodboards, so we&amp;#039;d have something to look at while celebrating the occasion. It&amp;#039;s a good set-up for local customers, too, as the designers will host trunk shows, schedule fittings with new customers, and may even link up with new, foreign retailers in hopes of becoming Important International Brands. The first showcase will be at W Atlanta-Buckhead later this year, so stay tuned if you live down there. And we&amp;#039;ll all be watching as New York Fashion Week gets influenced from abroad in future seasons: Timo Weiland told us he&amp;#039;s hoping to use the sponsorship to head to the South Pacific, though his partner Alan Eckstein is angling for Japan. And Luis Fernandez, who designs Number: Lab, would love to head to St. Petersburg \u2014 &amp;quot;you know, like a Russian Olympics-inspired collection.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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