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If you haven’t been reading this blog much or hitting your head against the door that is fashion production, let’s just say this once and for all; starting a fashion label is a long and expensive process with a wicked learning curve. Add a lack of adequate outlets to begin production and it becomes even more of a daunting task. In fact, the difference between the successful designers and never-weres can be traced to this stage in development. So, kids, imagine a democratic way
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If you’re an emerging designer, you might want to add “Twittersphere,” “Facebooking”, and “trending topics” to “ruching”, “interfacing” and the other sewing terms of your everyday vocabulary. According to WWD, there are 126 million blogs on the Internet today and women, the prime target for designers, use a whopping 84% of all social-networking sites. It’s an unprecedented opportunity for fashion-industry hopefuls to engage with a worldwide community of customers
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There’s no doubt that technology and social media have transformed the retail landscape. Exactly how we survived without every, single product in the world available with just a click of a button we may
never know. More than that, e-commerce sites and social media marketing tools such as Facebook
and Twitter are quickly becoming essential for reaching out to new and old retail customers.
But even with all these massive changes, we can’t help but wonder what’s around
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Designers, when something goes wrong in the workroom and let’s be honest here; you usually hang the blame on your sewing-machine operators. The idea that these essential garment workers refuse to alter their practices to suit the job at hand is as old as Italian lace.
An article on Fashion Incubator, however, suggests that the problems on the sewing-room floor aren’t necessarily the fault of the operators. Rather, it may be an issue of communication. Despite the monotonous prod
Walking down 39th Street, you may notice a number of delis, poster stores, and cleaners, anything but a thriving industrialhub we know as the Garment District. So it came as a bit of a surprisewhen the “Madein Midtown” survey released this week found that New York City’sfashion neighborhood is alive and kickin’.
The initiative, a six-month, in-depth research partnership between the Design Trustand the CFDA amongothers, reveals the importance of the neighborhood and its effect on NewYork’s economy
WHAT: DIAMONDS N DENIM HAIR AND FASHION INTERNATIONAL TRADE SHOW 2010
WHERE: INDEPENDENCE VISITOR CENTER
6TH AND MARKET STREET
PHILADELPHIA, PA 19106
WHEN: JULY 25, 2010
TIME: 10 AM - 9 PM
TICKETS: GEN. ADM. $25 (DAY OR NIGHT SHOW)
ALL DAY PASS $40 (DON'T MISS A THING)
VIP ADN RED CARPET ENTRY 445 (THE PERKS BABY!)
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EVENT: HIGH FASHION ONLY DRESS CODE!!! NO EXCEPTIONS
A BUYERS EVENT, SHOP WITH OUR VENDORS GET PAMPERED, HAIRSTYLISTS WITH NEW CUTS AND TRENDS, HIGH FASHION DES
This should be a great event!
Is anyone going?
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
6pm-8pm
at
DJT Fine Art
231 10th Ave
New York NY
$10 per person
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American Apparel, the vertically integrated clothing manufacturer based indowntown Los Angeles, is announcing the addition of six new colors toits successful line of nail polish. The company timed and designed theexpansion of American Apparel Nail Lacquer for the upcoming summerseason.In this exciting scenario, we at Insight Instore decided to research a sector which slowly but surely is making its presence felt both int
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