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Chic Spotlight: The House of (DE-FI)ance

Change Makers- Stories that Inspire: An Inspiring Conversation with Caressa Brown of (DE-FI) Global INC

Chic Spotlight: The House of (DE-FI)ance

2023: The House of (DE-FI)ance: A Fashion & Design Co-working Experience is the January 2023 Chic Spotlight for the Chic Guide Dayton. 

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Did we spot you at Dogs on the Catwalk?

Change Makers- Stories that Inspire: An Inspiring Conversation with Caressa Brown of (DE-FI) Global INC

Chic Spotlight: The House of (DE-FI)ance

2022: (DE-FI) Global INC was honored to partner with Ellies's Rainy Day Fund by providing costumes and customized matching jewelry from our designers and sewist.  We raised $38,000 to help keep pets and families together as a part of our annual community outreach initiative.

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Change Makers- Stories that Inspire: An Inspiring Conversation with Caressa Brown of (DE-FI) Global INC

Change Makers- Stories that Inspire: An Inspiring Conversation with Caressa Brown of (DE-FI) Global INC

Change Makers- Stories that Inspire: An Inspiring Conversation with Caressa Brown of (DE-FI) Global INC

2022: Read about the challenges she's faced, lessons learned, and the toll that COVID-19 played on (DE-FI)!

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The 2021 CFDA Annual Report

Event Showcases HC Student Designers

Change Makers- Stories that Inspire: An Inspiring Conversation with Caressa Brown of (DE-FI) Global INC

2022:  (DE-FI) was recognized as a founding member of the CFDA Connects program in the 2021 CFDA Annual Report.

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Event Showcases HC Student Designers

Event Showcases HC Student Designers

Event Showcases HC Student Designers

2022: (DE-FI) Global INC served as a proud sponsor for Hocking College's Fashion Design and Retail Merchandising program's Inaugural Fashion Show. 

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The Archives

Fashion Forward: The Dayton Emerging Fashion Incubator is Ready For The Runway

Indy’s Incubator Dream: Focusing on Developing and Growing Indy’s Natural Talent

Fashion Forward: The Dayton Emerging Fashion Incubator is Ready For The Runway

2013: Dayton Magazine covers the official launch of the Dayton Emerging Fashion Incubator and how righting a wrong inspired our work.

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(DE-FI) wants your input for fashion coworking space

Indy’s Incubator Dream: Focusing on Developing and Growing Indy’s Natural Talent

Fashion Forward: The Dayton Emerging Fashion Incubator is Ready For The Runway

2019: Elevate Dayton covers (DE-FI)'s  community planning for the House of (DE-FI)ance: A Fashion & Design Co-working Experience.

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Indy’s Incubator Dream: Focusing on Developing and Growing Indy’s Natural Talent

Indy’s Incubator Dream: Focusing on Developing and Growing Indy’s Natural Talent

Indy’s Incubator Dream: Focusing on Developing and Growing Indy’s Natural Talent

2013: the Indianapolis based Pattern Magazine featured the Dayton Emerging Fashion Incubator as the Circle City started planning for creative incubators.

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Fashion Incubator Needs 60 Models in Dayton

CFDA Connects Debuts to Help Regional Fashion Weeks and Organizations

Indy’s Incubator Dream: Focusing on Developing and Growing Indy’s Natural Talent

2013: the Dayton Business Journal features the Model Search for (DE-FI)'s Fashion in the Mystic Garden Launch Party.

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Fashion forward! Meet Daytonian of the Week Caressa Brown

CFDA Connects Debuts to Help Regional Fashion Weeks and Organizations

CFDA Connects Debuts to Help Regional Fashion Weeks and Organizations

2018: (DE-FI) Global INC's Owner/Director Caressa Brown was Daytonian of the Week.

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CFDA Connects Debuts to Help Regional Fashion Weeks and Organizations

CFDA Connects Debuts to Help Regional Fashion Weeks and Organizations

CFDA Connects Debuts to Help Regional Fashion Weeks and Organizations

2021: CFDA Connects debut is featured on Yahoo Finance.

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Meet…. Caressa Brown

Member Column – DAVID K. DUEBBER GENERAL MANAGER WASHINGTON PRIME GROUP DAYTON MALL

Member Column – DAVID K. DUEBBER GENERAL MANAGER WASHINGTON PRIME GROUP DAYTON MALL

2015:  Sinclair College's Student Newspaper The Clarion featured the work of (DE-FI) Global INC's Owner/Director Caressa Brown in their monthly edition.

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Member Column – DAVID K. DUEBBER GENERAL MANAGER WASHINGTON PRIME GROUP DAYTON MALL

Member Column – DAVID K. DUEBBER GENERAL MANAGER WASHINGTON PRIME GROUP DAYTON MALL

Member Column – DAVID K. DUEBBER GENERAL MANAGER WASHINGTON PRIME GROUP DAYTON MALL

2021: Washington Prime Group features (DE-FI) in the South Metro Regional Chamber of Commerce Monthly Newsletter

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A Fashion Moment w/Kirsten Holtz Naim

Member Column – DAVID K. DUEBBER GENERAL MANAGER WASHINGTON PRIME GROUP DAYTON MALL

A Fashion Moment w/Kirsten Holtz Naim

2021: CFDA Connects Creator Elliot Carlyle shares his story and his chance encounter with (DE-FI) Global INC's Owner/ Director Caressa Brown at New York Fashion Week influenced how we operate. 

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10 startups to watch in 2021

New local fashion business now open at Dayton Mall

A Fashion Moment w/Kirsten Holtz Naim

2021: Launch Dayton features the House of (DE-FI)ance: A Fashion & Design Co-working Experience as a top Startup to Watch.

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New local fashion business now open at Dayton Mall

New local fashion business now open at Dayton Mall

New local fashion business now open at Dayton Mall

2021: WHIO Channel 7 Covers the Grand Opening of The House of (DE-FI)ance: A Fashion & Design Co-working Experience and Dayton Threads.

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Caressa Brown-2021 Ohio Black Expo Honoree

New local fashion business now open at Dayton Mall

New local fashion business now open at Dayton Mall

2021: (DE-FI) Owner/Director Caressa Brown was the recipient of the Columbus based Ohio Black Expo's first Black Expollence Award for the Arts.

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We're Open For Business

Dayton’s first fashion co-working space and business hub opens at the Dayton Mall

A Year of (DE-FI)ance: A Look Back

2021: Washington Twp profiled The House of (DE-FI)ance in its original locationas a part of their "We're Open for Business" Series.

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A Year of (DE-FI)ance: A Look Back

Dayton’s first fashion co-working space and business hub opens at the Dayton Mall

A Year of (DE-FI)ance: A Look Back

2014:  Dayton Most Metro takes a look back at the inaugural year of the Dayton Emerging Fashion Incubator.

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Dayton’s first fashion co-working space and business hub opens at the Dayton Mall

Dayton’s first fashion co-working space and business hub opens at the Dayton Mall

10 people with Wright State connections named to Dayton Business Journal’s ‘Forty Under 40’ list

2021:  The Dayton Daily News covers the Grand Opening of the House of (DE-FI)ance: A Fashion & Design Co-working Experience

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10 people with Wright State connections named to Dayton Business Journal’s ‘Forty Under 40’ list

10 people with Wright State connections named to Dayton Business Journal’s ‘Forty Under 40’ list

10 people with Wright State connections named to Dayton Business Journal’s ‘Forty Under 40’ list

2019: Wright State University featured (DE-FI) Owner/Director Caressa Brown after being named to the 2019 Dayton Business Journal's Top 40 Under 40.

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"Fashion is Art" at Opera Guild brunch

10 people with Wright State connections named to Dayton Business Journal’s ‘Forty Under 40’ list

Introducing The Dayton Emerging Fashion Incubator (DE-FI)

Columbus Monthly features the Dayton Emerging Fashion Incubator participation as coordinator for the Opera Guild's Annual Fundraiser

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Introducing The Dayton Emerging Fashion Incubator (DE-FI)

10 people with Wright State connections named to Dayton Business Journal’s ‘Forty Under 40’ list

Introducing The Dayton Emerging Fashion Incubator (DE-FI)

2013: The Dayton Emerging Fashion Incubator (DE-FI) makes its official debut via Dayton Most Metro

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The Dayton Emerging Fashion Incubator (DE-FI) LLC Announces Future Plans

The Dayton Emerging Fashion Incubator (DE-FI) LLC Announces Future Plans

The Dayton Emerging Fashion Incubator (DE-FI) LLC Announces Future Plans

2013: The Dayton Emerging Fashion Incubator (DE-FI)shares its future plans.

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Exclusive: Sewing collaborative launches in Dayton

The Dayton Emerging Fashion Incubator (DE-FI) LLC Announces Future Plans

The Dayton Emerging Fashion Incubator (DE-FI) LLC Announces Future Plans

2016: (DE-FI) Global INC spent 3 years leveraging its name to help plan and fund the Dayton Sewing Collaborative brand and audience and was the key to their initial success.  While Sewing Collaborative ultimately opted not to focus on fashion after receiving the attention that they needed from (DE-FI), the work that we did for them set the path for the House of (DE-FI)ance. A Fashion & Design Co-working Experience.

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Dayton Emerging Fashion Incubator to host CEO

The Dayton Emerging Fashion Incubator (DE-FI) LLC Announces Future Plans

Dayton Emerging Fashion Incubator to host CEO

2014: The Dayton Emerging Fashion Incubator hosted Indianapolis based Midwest Fashion Week's CEO Berny Martin who introduced the Fashion Industry to youth empowerment groups My Beauty Is Priceless and Sons of Solomon. 

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