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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 [...]
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 [...]
The Importance of the Fashion Industry
Monday, March 1st, 2010Here’s the question, is fashion important? Well, in short, YES. Now, of course, we would say that since this is a fashion blog after all, and we do work in the fashion industry, and we are particularly supportive of NYC’s Garment Center, but is it really important to the rest of the world? And should it [...]
Life as a Corporate Fashion Designer
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010Today we have another fascinating interview for you. As usual we bring you a side of fashion not usually covered by mainstream media and certainly not covered during our recent fashion week. This fashion designer (who prefers to remain anonymous) has been working in the industry for about 12 years and has been responsible for [...]
Fashion Week is Almost Here
Sunday, February 7th, 2010Well, it’s that time of year again; fashion week is almost upon us. This is not just any fashion week however; it is the final showing at Bryant Park. As we mentioned before here, the powers that be decided to move the shows out of the Garment Center and relocate uptown to Lincoln Center. While [...]
Do I Really NEED to go to Fashion School?
Friday, February 5th, 2010 image via flickr cjJohn
(Fashion Flashback – This post was originally posted on 9/23/09. However, since we have so many new readers and many of you are students, we felt this article may be of interest. To view the original post’s comments click here.)
Having happily become a source of all things fashion industry related, we [...]






