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SECRETS OF START-UP QUEENS       With IMAN, DYLAN LAUREN, COCO ROCHA and PIERA GELARDI Moderated by CINDI LEIVE Co-Presented with Glamour Wednesday, May 29, 8 pm at 92nd Street Y It’s an exciting time for women to start up their own businesses. The internet and social media have changed everything about promotion and marketing. But getting a successful business launched is still challenging. How about picking up a few secrets from those who know? 92nd Street Y and Glamour present a panel discussion with a group of innovative women entrepreneurs. Dylan Lauren re-imagined the candy story, Iman saw that women of color wanted high quality cosmetics and fragrancem, and Piera Gelardi created a community around online fashion and shopping. Find out what worked for them, what advice they took and what they ignored, what mistakes they made and what gambles they took that paid off brilliantly. Plus, supermodel Coco Rocha...

Fern Mallis welcomes two more outstanding guests to her blockbuster Fashion Icons series at 92nd Street Y : Vera Wang on Tuesday, February 19 at 8 pm and Suzy Menkes on Tuesday, May 7 at 8 pm . Mallis is the creator of New York Fashion Week, the former Executive Director of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, the former Senior VP of IMG Fashion, the host of “Fashion Insiders with Fern Mallis” on Sirius XM Radio and the creator of the new Fern Finds: globally-inspired line of jewelry. No one is better positioned to get the world’s top fashion designers and taste-makers to share their stories, insights and dreams on 92Y’s world-renowned stage. Fern’s previous Fashion Icons guests have included Tom Ford, Marc Jacobs, Norma Kamali, Donna Karan, Calvin Klein, Michael Kors, Polly Mellen and Diane von Furstenberg. Vera Wang is best known for her exquisite, sophisticated, yet romantic bridal gowns, which she began designing in 1990. Ten years later, s...