Fern Mallis

The creator of New York Fashion Week, Fern Mallis has been hailed as an industry titan and the godmother of fashion. As host of the conversation series Fashion Icons with Fern Mallis, she assembled an incredible roster of style luminaries for her in-depth interviews.

Mallis serves on the Board of Directors for Robert Graham in New York and Tara Jewels in Mumbai, India, and is on the advisory boards of AHAlife, Fashion GPS and other emerging companies. She is a former senior vice president of IMG Fashion and former executive director of the Council of Fashion Designers of America.

Mallis is currently president of her own international fashion and design consultancy. She is an adviser to Charleston, St. Louis and Nashville Fashion Weeks; is executive adviser to Pier59 Studios and Concept Korea for New York Fashion Week; and serves on the executive steering committee for NYCxDesign Week.

“Fashion Lives: Fashion Icons with Fern Mallis,” a compendium of 19 of her series interviews, was published by Rizzoli USA in April 2015.

Photograph by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders.

Related SCADstyle events:

Monse + Fern Mallis
Monday, April 11
Atlanta, GA

Calvin Klein + Fern Mallis
Thursday, April 14
Savannah, GA