Susie Crippen

As anyone who has tried to become a fashion designer will tell you, the years you spend building your brand can be hard. There's so many decisions to make--do you want to branch out on your own right away or spend a few years working for an established name? Do you want to be conceptual or commercial? And of course, where are you going to get the money? So what's a brand new designer to do? Get advice from our "How I'm Making It" panel at our first-ever conference. We're gathering together some of the coolest new designers in the business to tell us, well, how they're making it. Who's on deck?