The Toronto Fashion Incubator (TFI) is an award-winning and highly-acclaimed non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and nurturing Canadian fashion designers and entrepreneurs. TFI is the world's first official fashion incubator, established in 1987 by the City of Toronto.

Since its launch, the TFI model has been adopted by over thirty global cities including London, Paris, New York, Milan, Amsterdam, Melbourne and Chicago. For almost three decades, TFI has fostered many of Canada’s most celebrated talents such as Sunny Fong of Project Runway Canada fame, Joeffer Caoc, David Dixon, Pina Ferlisi at McQ, Todd Lynn, Arthur Mendonça, Line Knitwear and Smythe.

Housed in an 8,000 sq. ft. heritage building at Exhibition Place in Toronto, TFI provides strategic business-building programs and services including one-on-one mentoring, educational seminars and master classes, shared workspace, in-house design studios, exclusive networking, promotional and marketing opportunities, valuable trend and business resources and market leads. Because we recognize the different needs you'll have at different stages in your fashion business or career, we offer two ways of becoming a TFI member: Outreach and Resident.