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Friday, May 14th, 2010Starting up a fashion label can be beyond pricey and the financial challenges of starting your own line are often what prevents many fashion professionals from going that route. Costs include labor, factories, materials, advertising, equipment, and much more all of which can prove to be great obstacles for the new designer. But an up-and-coming designer [...]
Fashion’s Night Out Take 2
Friday, May 7th, 2010As many of you remember last fall Anna Wintour and the CFDA made history by launching the global fashion event, Fashion’s Night Out.
Well, this September Fashion’s Night Out is coming back bigger and better then ever. Not only will it be a borough wide shopping event at all your local retailers, but there will also [...]
Vacation
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010Yep, we’re on vacation! Mmmm vacation, what could be better.
While we are gone we’ve compiled a list of timeless posts and all around favorites for your enjoyment. Also don’t forget about our forum where you can share your opinions and ideas on the state of the fashion industry.
Be back soon!
Can Zoning Save the Garment Center?
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Design Department Drama
Friday, April 2nd, 2010Unfortunately the question of taking credit for someone else’s idea, stealing another designs, copying a co-workers work etc are all issues that can come up in fashion design offices. The notion that there is one fashion designer, for a brand and perhaps a few assistants under them is often not true in most mid to [...]
Top 10 Aspects of Working In Fashion
Sunday, March 28th, 2010image via modAgency
(Fashion Flashback – This post was originally posted on March 4th 2009. With spring in the air, we have just been reminiscing about all the reasons we love NYC fashion. Plus, we decided to re-post this article for some of our newer readers. Enjoy!)
We thought we’d put together a top ten list of [...]
Fashion Flashback – The Copycat
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010 Diane Von Furstenberg dress knocked off by Forever 21
(Fashion Flashback – Originally posted on 2/19/09 – It was just over a year ago when this article was originally posted, and we thought in honor of the recent Oscars and our popular new post on the fashion calendar, it would be a good time to revisit [...]
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 [...]
