Susan Langdon

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Susan Langdon is the CEO of the Toronto Fashion Incubator (TFI). [2] [3]

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Langdon attended Ryerson University [4] and completed the Fashion Design 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. [5] Langdon is the chief executive of the Toronto Fashion Incubator since 1994 [6] where she has mentored many Canadian fashion designers, including David Dixon, [7] Sunny Fong of Project Runway Canada, Joeffer Caoc, Sid Neigum, Foxy Originals, Jenny Bird, Arthur Mendonça, Laura Siegel, Line Knitwear and Smythe.

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