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Monday, March 15th, 2010Today we have a shopping treat from our dear friend, down the block, Tricia Lewis. Tricia works for the 34th Street Partnership, a non-profit business improvement district that manages a 35-block area surrounding 34th Street. She writes a blog, Fashion Herald, to promote retailers in the district and provide a resource for shoppers. So many [...]
Links à la Mode
Saturday, March 13th, 2010Do you get spring fever? Oh man… the itch to run around outside in flowery prints and frilly laces gets greater and greater each passing day. To heck with chunky sweaters! This week we have a load of great spring style posts, Holier Than Now checks out cape coats, if you’re strapped for cash Out [...]
Garment Center, Next Hipster Neighborhood?
Thursday, March 11th, 2010It stared with a recent article in the NY Times and the rumblings continued online and throughout the city, is the Garment Center about to become the new “it” neighborhood? For those of us familiar with the neighborhood, it certainly seems to contain all of the proper elements. Lower rents then surrounding areas (check), large [...]
Death By Over-Scheduling
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010(Part One)
A while back we mentioned that skinny jeans were hazardous to your health, well now, we’d say the fashion calendar is a hazard to our industry. In our business the fashion calendar and the time from development to market, has gotten so tight that it is strangling our creativity and killing our profits. The old [...]
Oscar Fashion 2010
Sunday, March 7th, 2010Tonight is the night, the stars come out, the Red Carpet is unrolled and fashion takes center stages (oh, and movies too). But come on, how many of us watch just for the fashion? The gowns, the glitz, the glamour – this is what many people picture when you say, fashion. Certainly the average fashionista [...]
Artwork Analysis
Friday, March 5th, 2010Ok, we have no idea how we found this, but check it out. No doubt many of you will recognize this as “artwork” which is, the graphic element of fashion design.
This image is what the factory will receive in order to create a print for t-shirts, or really any apparel item that needs artwork printed. [...]
Garmento Giggle
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010http://jokediary.com/2010/02/model-behaviour.html
Two executives working in the garment center are having lunch together. Goldstein says to his friend, “Last week was one of the worst weeks of my entire life.”
“What happened?” asks Birnbaum.
Goldstein moans, “My wife and I went to Florida on vacation. It rained for seven days and seven nights, so my wife went out and [...]
