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About Us<\/h1>\n

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Innovation in Austin<\/h2>\n

The Austin Community College Fashion Incubator\u2019s<\/span> <\/span>goal is to provide a unique real-to-industry experience for students and local fashion design startups that is highly inclusive, collaborative, and supportive.<\/p>\n

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The Austin Community College Fashion Incubator is a high-tech facility that educates students, designers-in-residence, and local industry. We partner with the City of Austin Economic Development Department to provide a real-to-industry educational experience to develop local workforce in the fashion industry.
We also partner with Gerber Technology to provide a unique digital solutions package that significantly reduces the product development and small-run production cost for designers in our designer-in-residence<\/a><\/strong> program.<\/p>\n

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We provide real-to-industry education, training, and support to students, emerging fashion businesses, and local industry. We are building the local fashion ecosystem with career-technical training on both state-of-the-art technology as well as current industry skills. We are pushing the bar forward on the fashion industry workforce and fashion education.<\/p>\n

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To provide a high-quality fashion design education<\/strong> at an affordable rate in a real-to-industry environment with access and training on the industry\u2019s latest technology.
To support emerging fashion design businesses<\/strong> in their business creation, product development, small batch samples, marketing, and sales strategy.
To provide workforce education<\/strong> with the aim of gainful employment in partnership with the City of Austin Economic Development Department.<\/p>\n

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