Kickstarter Seats a Fashion Council, and the Small Atelier Gets a Chair at the Table

Kickstarter has assembled a panel of seasoned fashion hands to counsel the designers who raise money for their collections on the platform. The idea is plain enough: someone with a sketchbook and a point of view should be able to bring a line to market without first handing the keys to somebody else. For a desk that keeps track of which label dressed whom, and in what year, that is worth a note, because a label's first chapter can now be a page with a pledge button.

With reporting from WWD Fashion.