Fashion Blogs

Just like with every other business, starting a fashion line requires drive, creativity and knowledge of sound business practices. This last point is an important one, since having brilliant designs isn’t enough to succeed. Given the scale and cost involved in starting your own fashion line, it might be a wise investment to first get an MBA and some experience in the fashion industry. 

Before starting a fashion line, you should ask yourself a few questions. For instance, how well do you know th

Fashion is a glamorous industry; possibly the most glamorous industry there is, if rather grueling. Like any such arena, it can be hard for newcomers to tell where the advertisement stops and the product begins. A fabulous runway launch in Milan or Paris might cost a design house millions, or it might be making them millions: it's hard to know. And that means it is hard to figure out how to make your dreams of a fashion line into a reality.

The Education of The Great Designers

Many fashion design

Moved by an email from one of my blog visitors I wrote this article. What to do after graduating from a fashion school? What steps to take to become a big name in fashion? Click HERE in case you wanna know too.

FASHION MASH-UP, Oct. 21, 2010, Open Call

SFFAMA is looking for speakers for our Fashion Mash-Up on Oct. 21, 2010. Our main topic will be “MERCHANDISING IN THE FASHION INDUSTRY”

Speaker must be knowledgeable of the following subjects:

1. Looking for fashion designers, store owners, importers, buyers, merchandisers, manufacturers
2. Knowledge about clothing manufacturing process and sales strategies
3. Knowledge about the apparel and garment industry or trade business
4. Working with outsourcing or sourcing resour

Photos via Flickr/Registrando tudo/Selma90

Think about how enjoyable life would be if every strategy for success was laid out for you step by step. The Valentino Garavani Foundation, promises to offer just that with a how-to guide for making it in high fashion using the wisdom, designs, and history of fashion’s “Emperor” himself. Starting in September, students from all around the world will be able to bask in a specialized exhibit of Valentino’s life works that also serves as a comprehensive obj

Mew New York's Spring Collection (Photos via The Cut)

We love to keep aspiring designers in the know. If there’s a cool contest where you can flaunt your garbs, we’re sure to tell you. So, we’re going to give you a sneak peek of Mew New York,
a success story that could be yours in a few years if you actually enter these design competitions. Because, well, we know you’ll win, right?

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Nathalie Fordeyn's Collection (Photo via Knotoryus)

Parsons kids are taught to attack the market with buyable wears. Central Saint Martins students are all moody and esoteric. But for sheer creative frenzy, Antwerp Academy has got ‘em beat. Sure, most of the stuff rolled out on its graduate runway this week was unsellable. But if you love the beautiful and bizarre looks that you can actually wear, Antwerp is the grad fashion presentation for you. Here’s our favorite three Antwerp students who we

Photo, Daniela Jacobs

Happy summer! Today was the official start of summer, and the unofficial hottest day that ever was. It was also the day I continuedworking on illustrating the upcoming collection for Vena Cava in theirairy Soho studio.

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Alice Halliday's Collection | Photo via Fashion156

We’re only a few days into Graduate Fashion Week London 2010, and trends are all over the map. From super girly to super, well, not, graduates are pushing the creative envelope. There’s so much talent on the runway that Alberta Ferretti (this year’s chair of the judging panel) might just have to draw the week’s winning name out of an ultra-fashionable hat. See the trends—terrific and terrible—after the jump.