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		<title>How To Find Production Sourcing Overseas</title>
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		<title>Find Out What Segment of the Garment Industry is Still Going Strong.  Meet Steve Steinberg of QST Industries.  Part 1</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Find Out What Segment of the Garment Industry is Still Going Strong.  Meet Steve Steinberg of QST Industries, leading supplier of innovative men&#8217;s, women&#8217;s and children&#8217;s apparel construction components.  Part 1
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		<title>What is fashion licensing?</title>
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		<title>Brandon Graham &#8211; Menswear Designer &amp; Illustrator</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here's an excerpt of an interview I did for  Fashionarium's 'Secret Weapons' Series. Check it out.
Brandon Graham - Menswear Designer &#038; Illustrator]]></description>
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		<title>Interview with Fashion Illustrator Jennifer Lilya</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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/]]></description>
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		<title>How Do You Perceive Color?  Meet a Fashion Colorist.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:47:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought you might be interested in what a Fashion Colorist does. As a designer I'm used to checking and approving color test/lab dips myself, but the interviewee, who would rather stay annonymous does this exclusively for her assigned designers.  I asked her 15 distinct questions to help you understand this position. It seems like a position people "just fall into." They don't teach this specifically in school, but you may be assisted by one when you begin your new job... if your lucky.]]></description>
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		<title>Tech Designer, Nina Banks Talks Dress Forms</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A simple thing like changing a dress form can save a lot of money.  We changed our form to the Alvanon form recently. They'd been working with old Wolf forms. The problem with old Wolf forms is they are just not made like a human, and when you start to use those forms as a base, your garments are bigger and too boxy to reflect how people are.]]></description>
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		<title>Find Out What Segment of the Garment Industry is Still Going Strong.  Meet Steve Steinberg of QST Industries.  Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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Find Out What Segment of the Garment Industry is Still Going Strong.  Meet Steve Steinberg of QST Industries, leading supplier of innovative men&#8217;s, women&#8217;s and children&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Are Markers?  Part 2</title>
		<link>http://pinkyshears.com/2009/09/what-are-markers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  A marker is the paper layout for cutting pattern pieces.  Cavazza sees making markers as building puzzles, “where you&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Behind Every Good Designer is a Great Tech Designer.  Meet Nina Banks.  Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brandon Graham: How do the details a tech designer tracks affect the bottom line and consumption?
 
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