Reviving the Baltimore Garment Industry

Baltimore once had a thriving garment industry. Many of these sewing jobs have silently faded stateside. Legends are lost and so too their stories.

Abandoned garment factories in time were converted into luxury loft apartments.

Factory artifacts die silently untouched in a museum about history. 

Let us together as a community buy back a place for garments to be made stateside. 

Stacy Stube & Nicole Samodurov two former factory managers are paving the way for the next generation to sew. 

Fundraiser

We need $100,000 to get started to cover 6-months worth expenses to open these doors. The money will be used to pay the rent, utilites, buy machines, cutting tools, threads, pay for a small team to kick this off. 

The Fashion Innovaton Hub - Factory 

The Fashion Innovation Hub (FIH) is a garment factory for fashion entrepreneurs. The services the company offers are sourcing, product development, small batch marketing sample production and tradeskills training.

FIH acts as a manufacturing incubator that allows start-up fashion entrepreneurs to beta test business concepts by creating high quality marketing samples that they can go to market with through crowdfunding platforms. If the entrepreneur is successful in pre-selling the collection the funds are then allocated to pay for raw materials and cut and sew operations. 

We are here to revitalize the Baltimore Garment industry, while creating fashion jobs that keep tradeskills alive. 

FIH hires local and international fashion service partners to continuously grow competitive advantage for the start-up fashion company accounts.

All entrepreneurs that are admitted into the FIH must first go through the SEW BROMO Fashion Entrepreneur Essentials training program. This is to ensure they have the best chance at effectively developing their product in order to go to market for pre-sale. This approach reduces the amount of waste caused by overproduction and limits the financial risk on the part of the entrepreneur.

SEW BROMO - educates the next generation of mindful fashion entrepreneurs to grow social-impact driven businesses around the world. 

We are here to inspire the next generation of mindful fashion entrepreneurs. 

Background on Stacy Stube

Stacy Stube completed a joint Masters in Fashion Entrepreneurship from the London College of Fashion & the Masters New Creative Ventures Program from London Business School. Stube has worked in the luxury fashion sector for over 20-years between the USA, Europe and South-East Asia for the following companies: Alexander McQueen, Burberry, Hugo Boss, DVF and more. In 2013, the fashion director established the Elsa Fitzgerald company in Bali, Indonesia. It was during this time that the entrepreneur began engaging more with the apparel manufacturing side, which lead to the Head of Innovation position she held for Fashions Unlimited a 43-year old garment factory in Baltimore, Maryland USA. In 2019, Stube established SEW BROMO. 



Press 

Head of Innovation 
https://open.maryland.gov/blog/fashions-unlimited-bridges-gap-between-tradition-and-innovation/ 

University of the Arts London 
https://www.arts.ac.uk/alumni-and-friends/stories/meet_stacy_stube 

Fashion Innovation Hub
https://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/news/2018/09/17/how-a-local-designer-plans-to-revive-baltimores.html 

Beloved Baltimore Challenge 

If we get funded before New Years eve, Stacy Stube commits to running 200 miles around Baltimore's harbor over the span of 1-week starting on December 31, 2020. She will start at the flag pole overlookig the city on Federal Hill at 4 am and welcomes others to join with a safe distance and wearing masks. In 2015, Stacy Stube ran 300 km around the island of Bali to raise money for a social program she created while living and working on the island of Bali. She is a bit rusty and Baltimore is cold at this time of year, but it is now or never. 

We cannot rebuild an industry or a city alone, we must come together and commit with heart and hardwork. 

Thank you to everyone who has  supported this campaign to revitalize the Baltimore Garment Industry. 

How we can achieve this goal? 

1000 people pledging $100 each. 

With Gratitude, 

Stacy Stube 

SEW BROMO - Fashion Innovation Hub
1100 Wicomico Street
Baltimore, Md 21230

Contact: [email redacted]