Our next "How to Make It in Fashion" conference is less than two weeks away!

Last night at sunset marked the start of Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year. It's one of the holiest holidays for Jews. This year, it happens to coincide with New York fashion week, the most important time of year for anyone who works in the fashion industry. It puts many of us (myself included) in a tight spot.

Women and men from across the world (some as far as Bombay) were sitting on the edge of their seats at our first ever "How to Make it in Fashion" conference a few weeks ago. The topic? How to network (the right way) in this competitive industry. Trust us, the advice was good--and that's because it came from industry pros like Melanie Bender, co-founder & partner of communications firm Post+Beam, Alisa Gould-Simon, co-founder of style sharing app Pose, Amber Venz, president & co-founder of affiliate link program rewardStyle, John Jannuzzi, a contributing editor at Lucky, and Ruthie Friedlander, the senior digital manager for The Row. They may be young, but they still have years of experience and had much knowledge to share. Read on to see what we learned.