At Raisefashion, Supporting Emerging BIPOC Designers Grow Their Businesses

The US-based non-profit Raisefashion launched in July 2020 in response to the Black Lives Matter and social justice movements, with a mission to cultivate greater diversity in fashion and to actively promote and foster BIPOC talent and BIPOC-owned businesses.

Indeed, BIPOC talent typically face greater hurdles and discrimination when entering the fashion industry — some 38 percent of the report’s Black survey respondents said they were…