PeopleWearSF member Amy Williams, Fashion Design Chair at the California College of the Arts, and Diane Green, Fashion Department Chair at SF Community College (whose college is also a PeopleWear SF member) are on the Board of Directors of this innovative approach to encouraging fashion designers to create their vision in San Francisco. PeopleWear SF can provide manufacturing support when needed, particularly as the designers plan small lot manufacturing. We applaud this new non-profit, “Fashionincubator San Francisco”, at Macy’s Union Square, for their effort to encourage new designers by providing workshop space and business operations training. Here are the contacts to learn more about this valuable contribution to the new fashion industry in SF:

Financial contribution:  dconaghan@sfced.org, Dennis Conaghan, Board President, and Executive Director for SF Center for Economic Development
Business training: amywilliams@cca.edu, Board Member
Other questions/contributions:  Betsy.Nelson@macys.com, Board Vice President, VP, Media Relations & Cause Marketing for Macy’s Northwest & Southwest Regions, Macy’s, Inc.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/07/10/LVP61K4HLH.DTL

Designer applications, for the first group of six designers, are being accepted in September, 2011, for a year-long training beginning 1st quarter, 2012.