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Brightly colored fabrics surround a seamstress at the Jams World factory in Kalihi in this file photo.The 49-year-old clothing manufacturer was among the participants in the first-ever Hawaii Fashion Month in October. Now officials are looking at creating an incubator to grow Hawaii's fashion industry.
Moving from high technology to fashion, Hawaii is sketching plans for an accelerator program to support the state’s fashion industry, whose design would be similar to the model of the high-tech accelerator Blue Startups.
The Hawaii Strategic Development Corp. and the state Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism representatives have begun conversations with a variety of people in the fashion industry, and on the eve of the Governor’s Fashion Awards, had a roundtable discussion with some of the state’s largest clothing manufacturers and designers about the potential for a fashion industry accelerator.
“There was general agreement an accelerator makes a lot of sense for that industry here,” HSDC President Karl Fooks told PBN.
The state’s portion of the funding for the accelerator would come from the HI Growth Initiative, a $6 million fund to help grow creative and innovative companies that the Legislature approved in the 2013 session.
Talk of growing the fashion industry comes on the heels of October’s Hawaii Fashion Month, for which the state contributed $157,500 and the City and County of Honolulu chipped in another $10,000.
“Hawaii, through this HI Growth Initiative and an accelerator, the framework is going to be able to launch a lot more companies, ideas and talent for the long term, and I think we’re doing this at the right time because it is on trend and, more importantly, I think it’s going to provide a vehicle where talent can access investment to be able to grow and launch their product lines or companies,” said Georja Skinner, chief officer for DBEDT’s creative industries division.
Stephanie Silverstein covers tourism, retail and money for Pacific Business News.
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