CFDA Fashion Awards

Um, she is up for the CFDA Vogue Fashion Fund this year.

Um, She just was nominated in the Emerging Designer category for the CFDA Awards.

But she's actually, I think, graduated about 10 years ago.

And she's built her business really kind of grassroots.

Yeah.

And all of these great things were happening to us at the beginning, where when Katie won the CFDA Award for, the Council of Fashion Designers of America, for accessories, um, our first orders from Barneys and Charivari and Saks Fifth Avenue, all of that was so thrilling and exciting.

Coming up with the money to produce things, you know, that was a different story.

It was hard.