New Jersey Fashion Week

New Jersey Fashion Week's record in this guide is a producer's profile, and its facts are carried in the record below: the event is produced by DC Showroom, which provides consultative services for emerging brands in fashion and beauty, and the week exists to give exceptional emerging fashion talent an opportunity to present their seasonal collections on a global scale — to the industry, media and consumers.

The record also carries the producer's founding claim and contact line: founder and sole producer of the first official NJ Fashion Week for the state of NJ since 2010, with the phone and fax numbers DC Showroom published for the event. New Jersey's week is the closest record in this guide to New York's — a state platform in the metropolitan orbit, built for emerging talent rather than established houses.

Illustrative image created for this guide — an artistic impression, not photographs from these shows.

The First Official NJ Fashion Week

The 'first official' claim in the record is the page's key fact: before 2010, New Jersey designers showed in New York or not at all, and DC Showroom's week gave the state a banner of its own. Its model is the consultancy-led one — the producer's day work with emerging brands in fashion and beauty feeds the runway, and the runway gives those brands the global-scale presentation the record promises.

That emerging-talent focus puts New Jersey in a family with Cleveland's institute showcase and San Diego's launching pad in this guide: the American regional weeks that exist specifically to start careers.