The Label You Haven't Heard of Yet Just Got a Brain Trust

Kickstarter has assembled a panel of advisers devoted entirely to fashion, built to put seasoned professionals within reach of designers building a label without a big house behind them. The idea is counsel from people who know the business from the inside, so a designer can raise the money and get a collection out the door while keeping the decisions their own. For a desk that keeps track of which name is stitched into which gown and when, it is the kind of pipeline worth watching, since the next label worth filing begins somewhere like this.

With reporting from WWD.