Austin Community College District\u2019s Fashion Incubator and Macy\u2019s Barton Creek Square announce a new collaboration to help aspiring fashion designers and creative business owners explore what it takes to launch their own fashion business. Together, the Fashion Incubator and Macy\u2019s Barton Creek Square will offer a virtual course series called The Future of Fashion.<\/p>\n
The first course covers five weeks of instruction with a bonus introductory class with former President of Esprit and Calvin Klein, Edward Jones III, and other industry veterans. The course is a highlight of what designers need to know in order to bring their collections to market. Topics range from design, development, capital, marketing, and sales. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe ACC Fashion Incubator is proud to partner with Macy\u2019s on this new initiative to bring fashion business education to a diverse audience of creatives who want to see their businesses become a reality,\u201d says Nina Means, ACC Fashion Incubator director. \u201cACC Fashion Incubator began with a partnership with the City of Austin and Gerber Technology to bring fashion technology and business education to the emerging design market in Central Texas. With this new virtual initiative sponsored by Macy\u2019s, the ACC Fashion Incubator has the opportunity to expand its reach even further.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rick Gabriel, store manager at Macy\u2019s Barton Creek Square initiated the engagement for partnership in 2019. He saw the potential of supporting a new program that closely aligned with Macy\u2019s values of supporting their local community in a way that promotes diversity and inclusion.<\/p>\n
\u201cDiversity and inclusion are essential to Macy\u2019s culture and core values,\u201d says Gabriel. \u201cWe\u2019re proud to support ACC\u2019s Fashion Incubator program in its efforts to prepare aspiring designers and established entrepreneurs for success through high-quality courses packed with real-to-industry content.\u201d<\/p>\n
This course is a pilot program to test the local market engagement through this new virtual series. The ACC Fashion Incubator originally planned to take its programming virtual in a later phase of the project. However, the presence of the pandemic accelerated the implementation of this plan.<\/p>\n
Classes begin virtually Wednesday, October 7.<\/p>\n
For more information about the ACC Fashion Incubator, visit austincc.edu\/fashionincubator. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Austin Community College District\u2019s Fashion Incubator and Macy\u2019s Barton Creek Square announce a new collaboration to help aspiring fashion designers and creative business owners explore what it takes to launch their own fashion business. Together, … Continue reading