Press Release: Denver Design Incubator Holding Open House

The Denver Design Incubator is holding an open house for those who are interested in furthering their fashion design skills and growing their business. Stop in and learn more about the Designer-In-Residence program, tour the space, and take in how DDI can elevate a brand into a successful business. Bring a portfolio to get feedback or use the studio space to finish up some samples. Speak to the current DIRs and experience how DDI is moving fashion forward.


WHO SHOULD ATTEND?: Fashion Design Students, Designer-In-Residence Candidates, Interested Local Designers

WHO WILL YOU MEET?: DDI’s Executive Director, Holli Gibson; DDI’s Founder and Chairman of the Board, Rustin Coburn; Current Designers-In-Residence, Jeanne Connolly and Kristen Littlejohn

WHAT: DDI Open House

Speak with current DIRs and DDI personnel, get portfolio feedback, learn about upcoming workshops and interviews for the next class of Designers-In-Residence, tour DDI’s studio, try out the industrial sewing equipment.

WHERE: 500 16th St., Suite 264, Denver, Co. Inside the I Heart Denver Store

WHEN: Tuesday, November 1st, 2011. 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

ABOUT THE DENVER DESIGN INCUBATOR

The Denver Design Incubator (DDI) is Colorado’s first and only fashion design incubator, focused on education and business development to assist with turning creative ideas into successful and sustainable businesses. The DDI, based centrally in Downtown Denver, carries out its mission and vision by supporting, educating and empowering designers with the appropriate skill-sets to be successful in the Fashion Industry. The DDI is a place of creativity and innovation for designers to build upon an already established fashion and design knowledge base.

DDI offers an intensive two-year program that will accept three to seven applicants committed to advancing themselves and their businesses. Designers-in-residence will be immersed in a real world setting of a design studio in an apparel manufacturing company. They will receive mentoring from established fashion professionals to help them take their ideas from a concept to a money making business. Designers-in-residence will attend classes based upon a customized curriculum to take their skills to the next level. Classes will also be offered to the public in areas ranging from design to pattern making to production to business planning to fashion law.

For More Information: Contact Holli Gibson, Executive Director 720-837-1452 or info@denverdesignincubator.com