FIT/HFPA to Honor Cole, Kahn Family

By Staff -- Home Textiles Today, 12/15/2008 12:00:00 AM

New York —

The Home Fashion Products Association announced during its annual meeting the date and honorees for the 2009 Fashion Institute of Technology/HFPA scholarship breakfast. The breakfast will take place here March 10 at Cipriani, 110 E. 42nd St., across the street from Grand Central Station.

Honorees will be Paulette Cole, ceo of ABC Carpet & Home, and the Kahn family, which founded and ran Croscill Home Fashions for 62 years. The company was recently sold to Patriarch Partners. For ticket information, call (212) 297-2127 or email tcadet@kellencompany.com.