About Nancy Volpe Beringer
Philadelphia fashion designer Nancy Volpe Beringer continues to bring an important voice for the unheard in the fashion industry.
At age 64, Nancy made history as the oldest ever designer on the show and paved her way to the Project Runway finale through her creativity, determination, and quest for melding sustainability and inclusivity. She presented the first ever zero-waste Project Runway finale at New York Fashion Week with models of all sizes, races, gender identities and abilities.
Nancy’s Project Runway experience strengthened her determination to promote more diversity, sustainability and inclusivity in the fashion industry. An array of challenges brought on by the pandemic inspired Volpe Beringer to create The Vault by Volpe Beringer. It is the world’s first and only fully accessible designer luxury platform which offers adaptable options and complimentary consultations for the disabled community.
The award-winning company, a recipient of the 2022 Fashion Group International (FGI) Rising Star for New Retail Concept, shows that sustainable fashion and function can co-exist.
The Fashion Impact Fund also honored Volpe Beringer as one of ten women entrepreneurs throughout the world recognized with shaping the fashion industry and society with innovative solutions. As part of its Conscious Fashion Campaign, an initiative of the Fashion Impact Fund in collaboration with the United Nations Office for Partnerships and the PVBLIC Foundation, billboards including the NASDAQ Times Square billboard featured the ten women.
Most recently during New York Fashion Week, the Fashion Impact Fund invited Volpe Beringer to participate in a round table discussion held at the United Nations which focused on the role of media to amplify female founders transforming the fashion industry.
Highlights of Nancy’s Groundbreaking, Inspiration Story to Moving Fashion Forward:
· Honored as one of ten women entrepreneurs throughout the world recognized with shaping the fashion industry and society with innovative solutions by Fashion Impact Fund Week as part of the Conscious Fashion Campaign, an initiative of the Fashion Impact Fund in collaboration with the United Nations Office for Partnerships and the PVBLIC Foundation.
· Awarded the 2022 Fashion Group International (FGI) Rising Star award and Sustainability finalist for her groundbreaking online platform The Vault by Volpe Beringer. The world’s first-ever luxury accessible resale platform offers adaptable options and complimentary consultations for the disabled community.
· Earned a record number of awards at age 61 for her graduate collection at Drexel University.
· Became the oldest ever contestant and runner up on Project Runway at age 64, where she ended her run with a sustainable zero-waste collection that was the most inclusive final runway in Project Runway history at New York Fashion Week.
· Named “Best in Philly Fashion Designer for Artsy Dresses” by Philadelphia Magazine for her viral red-carpet design for Grammy nominee and rapper Tierra Whack.
As a teacher/mentor, advocate, and now as a fashion designer, Volpe Beringer’s innate creativity has inspired an array of platforms that give a voice to the unheard, including at-risk children, educators, refugee women and most recently sustainability, inclusivity and adaptability in fashion.
Volpe Beringer notes, “I feel that I was provided the opportunity to become a fashion designer at age 61which is not to create more fast fashion which harms the environment, but to use my role as a fashion designer to advocate and uniquely redesign for those whose voices are not heard by the fashion industry.”
Her sustainable wearable art and couture designs are available on www.nancyvolpeberinger.com and her accessible and adaptable luxury resale pieces can be found on www.thevaultbyvolpeberinger.com.