Susan Langdon is the CEO of the Toronto Fashion Incubator (TFI).

Career

Langdon attended

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and completed the

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program. During the 1980s, she launched a line of clothes with the help of a financial backer. Sales reached $500,000 in her first season of activity. Langdon is the chief executive of the Toronto Fashion Incubator since 1994 where she has mentored many

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fashion designers, including David Dixon,

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of Project Runway Canada, Joeffer Caoc,

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, Foxy Originals, Jenny Bird, Arthur Mendonça, Laura Siegel, Line Knitwear and Smythe.

Awards

* 1996:

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Excellence in Fashion Industry Achievement Award * 1998: Ryerson University's Alumni Award of Distinction and inducted into the university's hall of fame * 2005: JoAnna Townsend Award from the Organization of Women in International Trade * 2015: Fashion Group International Visionary Award * 2021:

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for her services to Canadian fashion * Woolmark Award of Distinction and Concours Design Award

References

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