Peter Arnold is Executive Director of the Fashion Scholarship Fund (FSF), the foremost fashion-oriented education and workforce development nonprofit in the United States. Together with Virgil Abloh, he established the Virgil Abloh “Post-Modern” Scholarship Fund, which is administered by the FSF.
Mr. Arnold is an accomplished fashion industry veteran with leadership experience as Executive Director of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, Chief Executive Officer for notable fashion designers Cushnie et Ochs and Cynthia Rowley, and President of John Varvatos Enterprises. He is a national advisory board member of the St. Louis Fashion Fund and a board advisor at Roller Rabbit, New York. Mr. Arnold is an Adjunct Professor at the Fashion Law Institute at Fordham University School of Law.
He received his juris doctor from New York University School of Law and a bachelor of arts in history from Wesleyan University.