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Silent James from http://silentjames.com/ spoke yesterday at FIT about knowing your audience. This is an excerpt from a lecture titled: Three Top Illustrators Share “How I Got My First Job.”

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 [...]

Here’s an excerpt of an interview I did for Fashionarium’s ‘Secret Weapons’ Series. Check it out.
Brandon Graham – Menswear Designer & Illustrator

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/

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.

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.

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 [...]

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Steve Steinberg, QST Industries

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