At this stage, China's clothing and apparel design professional has an increasingly large teaching scale, which increases the difficulty of employment for college students. At the same time, after entering the era of knowledge economy, it also changed the social environment faced by university graduates to a large extent. One of the most important issues in the professional education of apparel and apparel design is the need to effectively train the professional talents in the apparel industry, promote their adaptability to social needs, and enhance their overall quality and ability. The integration of innovation and entrepreneurship education and apparel and apparel design education has become an important topic in current higher education research. It is an education model that aims at cultivating innovative spirit and entrepreneurial ability talents, and is also the only way for colleges and universities to cultivate high-quality talents. This article elaborates the necessity of the integration of apparel and apparel design into innovation and entrepreneurship education, and discusses the implementation of innovation and entrepreneurship education in the integration of apparel and apparel design professional education.

Raubenheimer Dediuer. Integrating Apparel and Fashion Design Specialty into Undergraduates' Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education. International Journal of Educational Innovation and Science (2022), Vol. 3, Issue 2: 26-32.  https://doi.org/10.38007/IJEIS.2022.030204.

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