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Tuesday, December 28th, 2010

by Caroline Brown, handbag designer for Rosetti Lei & Fung and Brandon Graham, WouldYouRockThis.com brand manager.

Join us for Fashion Drawing Session next month and get feedback on your portfolio.

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Thursday, December 23rd, 2010

How To Find Production Sourcing Overseas

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Saturday, June 12th, 2010

PinkyShears’ publisher, Brandon Graham, interviews fashion illustrator, Jennifer Lilya at her studio in Brooklyn, New York.

Have a look and give some feedback on Jennifer’s illustrations here on http://wouldyourockthis.com/vote/current/31/

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Saturday, May 15th, 2010

How To Improve The Attractiveness of Your Brand [Part 1]

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Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

PinkyShears Business Card Envelope and Holder

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Thursday, February 18th, 2010

Mercedes Gonzalez is Director of Global Purchasing Companies, a full service buying office that plans and implements retail strategies.

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Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

This is a collection I did for my clothing line Brentwood last season. (See more pics below.) I wanted to explain to you that it doesn’t take a “ish” load of money to market a collection granted you understand your customer and what they want. This strategy will drastically cut down on your marketing costs to the point you can redo the lookbook if you don’t get it right the first time.

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Monday, December 7th, 2009

The making of a Hermes bag.

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Friday, November 20th, 2009

How It’s Made: Ballet Slippers

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Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

Do You Have Your PANTONE Book Yet?
This is a color reference book used commonly in the industry to communicate color. Pantone is known worldwide as one of the standard languages for accurate color communication, from designer to manufacturer to retailer to customer, across a variety of industries.
Each color is given a number to represent [...]

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Friday, November 6th, 2009

How A Shoe is Made.

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Thursday, November 5th, 2009

Stretch Your Shoes With Ice

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Monday, November 2nd, 2009

…we got into a conversation about how easy it is to forget the fundamentals like draping and filling out a spec sheet. Funny thing, we both forgot how to measure shoulder slope. We knew the term, but couldn’t remember how to take the measurement. After talking about it and sketching it out on a napkin we figured it out.

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Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

Dress Form. How It’s Made.

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Friday, October 23rd, 2009

Video: How To Attach A Pant Zipper

Don’t forget a women’s pant zipper is unzipped with the left hand and men’s zipper is unzipped with the right hand.

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