From Design to Workforce - Your Career in the Fashion Industry Starts with (DE-FI) Global INC!

(DE-FI) Global INC is a bold, 100% volunteer-led fashion incubator headquartered in Dayton, Ohio, with operations, programs, and partnerships across Cincinnati, Ohio, and the Midwest. We fuse fashion with STEM, agriculture, and innovation, breaking barriers and removing financial obstacles so no one is turned away. From farm to fabric to runway, we’re cultivating the people and systems that power the next generation of fashion professionals. 

Far from polished or posh, we are a grassroots fashion incubator building the system that they said can’t exist in Dayton and Cincinnati Ohio by connecting the dreamers and developing the people that power the industry and who refuse to play by outdated rules. Open, honest, and unapologetically bold, at (DE-FI) Global INC, is empowered by people, fueled by purpose, and is built from pure passion.

We are a community-driven fashion incubator re(DE-FI)ning how an industry is built without gatekeepers, without barriers, and without waiting for permission. We don’t turn anyone away for an inability to pay. Instead, we run on collaboration, strategic partnerships, and a spirit of trade and barter that keeps opportunity accessible. From farm to fashion, to STEM, to photography, to design, to modeling, to writing, we support every link in the creative value chain right up to workforce development.

When you partner with (DE-FI), you’re not funding an organization, you’re helping us build jobs, educate talent, and keep fashion’s future rooted right here in the Midwest.