Local talent. New opportunities.
Florida Supports Florida is a VUGA Foundation initiative that helps emerging Florida-based artists and creatives share their work, reach new audiences, and build professional connections.
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We believe talent deserves an opportunity to be recognized—regardless of someone’s background, financial resources, or industry connections. Through partnerships with creative platforms, cultural organizations, and industry professionals, we help open doors for Florida’s creative community.
Calling Florida-based singers, dancers, musicians, DJs, comedians, and performers.
VUGA Foundation is supporting FMFW Fashion Night Out, presented by Florida Men’s Fashion Week, on November 15, 2026, at Hilton Miami Aventura.
Florida Men’s Fashion Week brings together designers, models, artists, and creative professionals to celebrate men’s fashion and connect talent with new audiences. With Fashion Night Out, that spotlight extends beyond the runway to music, dance, comedy, and the performing arts.
We’re inviting emerging performers across Florida to apply for the opportunity to take the stage and share their talent with a live audience and members of the creative community.
Selected participants will have the opportunity to perform live at FMFW Fashion Night Out and receive promotional support from Florida Men’s Fashion Week, including:
Whether you’re developing your act or ready to reach a wider audience, we want to learn about you and your work.
Complete the form below to tell us about your talent and share examples of your work. Applications will be reviewed, and selected participants will be invited to perform at the event.
Submitting an application does not guarantee selection.
Florida has talent. Together, we give it a stage.
Florida Supports Florida began as a runway initiative created to support the talented designers who contribute to the development of Florida’s menswear scene. The program provided full runway production and international press promotion for participating designers — a meaningful investment in local talent at a moment when regional fashion scenes are redefining the industry.
The initiative operates within the broader Florida Men’s Fashion Week platform — a runway and cultural project across Miami, Paris, and New York that has grown into a network of over 4,000 menswear designers and a community of 1,000 male models. Florida Supports Florida is where that platform meets its home: an open door for Florida-based designers to stage their work at the same professional level as the world’s most established brands, with press, photography, and distribution support built in.
Through the initiative, participating designers had access to: complete runway production — venue, lighting, sound, and backstage management; casting from the FMFW model community; professional photography and video; a credentialed international press program that places participating designers in outlets across fashion, culture, and lifestyle media; and a seat at the table — Florida Supports Florida designers present alongside the platform’s established international roster, sharing audiences, contacts, and momentum.
Florida has quietly become one of the most interesting fashion laboratories in the country. A uniquely global population, year-round outdoor living, and a creative industries base that extends across music, film, and visual art have combined to produce a generation of designers whose work looks and feels nothing like the incumbents in New York, Paris, or Milan. Florida Supports Florida is the bet that those designers deserve a professional, reliable platform to build their careers from — and that the world is ready to pay attention.
Florida-based designers interested in being considered for a future season, and brand or media partners interested in supporting the initiative, are welcome to reach out through the contacts below.
