Archive for the ‘Vendors and Products’ Category
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
It’s great to have a book tailored to the subject of fashion illustration. Hats off to Julia for bringing together a collection of artists who take the time out to do what they do best and are willing to share their knowledge with others. Reading this inspired me to try new techniques and keep pushing my art.
Brandon’s Book Review. Fashion Illustration Exposed. Edited by Julia Stanescu
Tags: Brandon Graham, david delin, drawing fashion, FASHION BOOK REVIEW, fashion illustratin techniques, Fashion Illustration, fashion illustration exposed, fashion illustration using photoshop, fashion illustrator, how to book for fashion, how to book for fashion illustration, inspiration, julia stanescu, maryanne Oliver, painting fashion illustrations, painting techniques, phoks, photography, photoshop for fashion design, sketch, womenswear sketches
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Thursday, March 11th, 2010
See what people really think of your designs.
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How Do You RANK as a FASHION DESIGNER?
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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.
How to Start a Fashion Line in Today’s Market
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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.
Fashion Designer’s Hack. Create A Lookbook for Your Collection for Under $100. And Get Samples Made For FREE. How I did it.
Tags: advice, Brandon Graham, How To, menswear
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Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
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.
Tech Designer, Nina Banks Talks Dress Forms
Tags: advice, Alvanon dressform, dress form, dressform, fabric consumption, Wolf dressform
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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 [...]
Do You Have Your PANTONE Book Yet?
Tags: coated and uncoated pantone chips, color chips, Pantone, Pantone book
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Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
Dress Form. How It’s Made.
Dress Form. How It’s Made.
Tags: collapsable dressform, dress form, dressform, dummy, fitting, fittings, form, molds, size 12, tech design tool
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Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
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 [...]
Find Out What Segment of the Garment Industry is Still Going Strong. Meet Steve Steinberg of QST Industries. Part 2
Tags: advice, FIT, licensing, Q and A, QST Industries, Steve Steinberg, Wal-Mart
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Monday, October 5th, 2009
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 1
The many facets it takes to create a garment are not made within one company; the devil is in the details. No one understands this [...]
Find Out What Segment of the Garment Industry is Still Going Strong. Meet Steve Steinberg of QST Industries. Part 1
Tags: advice, Brandon Graham, fire retardant, government contracts, military, QST Industries, Steve Steinberg
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Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
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 [...]
Paul Cavazza Explains Grading. Part 3
Tags: Create-A-Marker, fashion terms, grading, Paul Cavazza
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Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
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 [...]
Need Help Selling Your Collection? Meet Aya Morimoto, Sales Rep. Part 1
Tags: Aya Morimoto, Brandon Graham, Brentwood, fashion, fashion design, Leigh Lumford, SoHo, Stella Ishii
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Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
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 [...]
Need Help Selling Your Collection? Meet Aya Morimoto, Sales Rep. Part 2
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