Community Initiatives

Central Texas Fashion Coalition facilitates a variety of community based initiatives throughout the year to help slow fashion professionals grow their businesses/careers. These initiatives are generally collaborative-working with other local industry professionals to create opportunities that benefit all.

Interested in the cause? We are accepting Donations to help fund future programing

Thank you for your donation to our grassroots org: Central Texas Fashion Coalition. Your donation will help local designers creating wearable art (clothing, jewelry, accessories) access support and opportunities to help them thrive.

Learn more about past initiatives below:

Content Scholarship Q3-2024

Designers/Brand owner gets the chance to create photos/content for their brand to showcase their work. Final product can be either simple product photography or an editorial style shoot. 3 winners will be selected by our Board of Directors

Winners receive: a 4 hour photo session at Texas Film Studio + a shoot with a talented local photographer (valued at over $2,000)

Applications are now closed.

Congratulations to our winners:

ByPranisha, Estudio Zanny, Purse & Clutch and Future Vagabond

(due to a tie we selected 4 winners)

Blog article with recap and further impact report coming soon!

See photos below for a taste of the magic that was captured

  • ByPranisha

    captured by Joi Conti

    ByPranisha is a startup brand / new designer who requested product images for her new website for the initial launch of her first collection.

  • Purse & Clutch

    captured by Chisum Pierce

    Founder Jen is a veteran in the Austin slow fashion scene with over a decade of operations. She requested images to capture her holiday collection

  • Estudio Zanny

    captured by Steven Martinez

    Jeweler Zanny Cox collaborated with the photographer to conceptualize and create a gorgeous lookbook for her winter collection

  • Future Vagabond

    captured by Leah Bury

    Sam is a local artist who upcycles vintage and ethical goodies with her own embroidered art- they collaborated to capture gorgeous imagery for her website and socials (both digital and film)

Stay tuned to learn about more initiatives as our programs evolve. CTFC members always receive priority access