Category: Interview

PinkyShears publisher, Brandon Graham Speaks with Marketplace.publicradio.org
He talks about what the consumer can do to help save New York’s Garment District.

Find Out What Segment of the Garment Industry is Still Going Strong.  Meet Steve Steinberg of QST Industries, leading supplier of innovative men’s, women’s and children’s apparel construction components.  Part 2
BG: How do you handle companies changing their designs during the entire process?
SS: We get called in after a company does all the initial [...]

“Could be the next Marc Jacobs!”
“Don’t get me wrong,” Paul Cavazza confided “I like working with seasoned professionals, because as a businessman, I appreciate that everything is going to run smoothly, by the book.” But he lights up when he talks about working with new designers who are still learning. Although they [...]

Grading isn’t taught as part of academic fashion education, but a skill, Cavazza observes, that most companies today will teach hands on, training within the company. When someone comes to Cavazza interested in being a grader, the first thing he asks is: “Do you like math and fractions? If you don’t like [...]

A marker is the paper layout for cutting pattern pieces. Cavazza sees making markers as building puzzles, “where you’re not sure what the finished product is going to look like.” He has loved building and solving puzzles since he was a kid, a quality he sees as essential for someone who [...]

Paul Cavazza’s company, Create-A-Marker, does grading and makes markers for numerous customers in the fashion industry. He is a natural and highly visual problem solver, sketching to illustrate his points as he shares stories of his life in the garment industry. He grew up in the garment industry here in New York, [...]

Next Week:  Interview With Paul Cavazza of Create-A-Marker.
Need help grading patterns or creating a marker?  Don’t know what that is?
In our 5 Post series Paul will explain patterning terms, his role in the industry, and why he likes working with new designers.

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Brandon Graham: How do the details a tech designer tracks affect the bottom line and consumption?

Nina Banks: Because we’re working with production and sales as well as the designers, we’re going to see a big picture of how any design change you want to make will impact the costs, and the consumption of fabric, [...]

Production is the mother of the business. Sales controls the business: they’re the father. They say “they’re doing this in the industry and we want to be closer to this, what do we need to do to get there?” They look at numbers critically, and see how they can make it better, and ask the technical designer how to make the changes. Sales, being the father knows where the family needs to go, how to make a better “kid,” the garment, so to speak.

Stella Ishii was well aware of the disconcerting maze young designers must navigate when she established The News. The muti-label showroom sits in the heart of SoHo, but its web of clients stretches internationally North, East, West and South. A major part of bringing the company into being was when Ishii tapped her talented [...]

Another designer who Morimoto beamed about was Japanese brand Sacai. Morimoto flipped through The News’ published mock newspaper from this season, looking for examples of Sacai’s work. The May issue of Essence magazine also sat on the coffee table in front of us and she pointed to first lady Michelle Obama.

AM: Actually Michelle Obama wore [...]

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