How to approach fashion clothing manufacturers and get a reply back
It’s not easy to find fashion clothing manufacturers but getting them to reply to you is a whole new level of challenge, most entrepreneurs are not prepared for. When they are ready to start working on their idea they struggle to know where to search to find factories. But once they find a few – […]
How to Make the Best of Minimum Order Quantity (MOQ)?
MOQ (Minimum Order Quantity) is a requirement of factories – the lowest quantity of a certain product that a supplier is willing to produce.
How Cutting Fabric for Production can Bring You Savings
Cutting fabric for production is a skill seasoned professionals know about and use as a way to make savings. Scaling up from sampling to production is a huge leap in regards to fabric and trimmings consumption.
What Makes a Perfect Fitting Session?
Read on to learn what makes a perfect fitting session and what you must ensure you have in place if you do not want to waste time and money.
The Importance of Fashion Care Instruction Cards
Care instruction cards are an excellent way to communicate your brand values and educate your customer about your product, especially if your products are handmade or use any specialist materials.
3 Tips to Make a Perfect Garment Sample
Making a perfect garment sample good enough for the factory to follow through to production, can be approached in three ways. Whichever way you choose, your final outcome is to produce items to a very high standard so that they can be used by a factory as a template for your production.
What is a Critical Path and Why your Business Needs it?
What is a critical path in fashion? It is a continuously reviewed system, which is used to track the progress of fashion projects and production deliveries. A production plan that contains a list of all of the necessary activities that are required to be done within a particular time frame.
The easy guide to Fashion Sampling
Whether you are new to the industry or seasoned professional, embarking on product fashion sampling is one of the most exciting and satisfying parts of the design process.
A fashionista’s guide to the basics of Pattern Grading
Creating pattern for garments is exciting, but the art of pattern grading is a skill not many posses. Yet the mass market relies on it for scale.
5 Reasons Why a Fashion Factory Ignores Designers
Approaching fashion factories for the first time can be a nerve wracking experience, especially if you’re new to the fashion business
Everything You Need To Know About The Sample Making Process
Embarking on garment sample making is one of the most exciting and satisfying parts of the design process. Bringing your ideas to life in the form of a tangible product is the icing on the cake after months of designing, fabric sourcing and pattern cutting.
Turn an idea into a finished product
While in the past one may have had an idea and not done much about it, today – we have an idea and we know we have infinite possibilities to make it happen.
What is a Fashion Spec Sheet and why you need one?
If in architecture you cannot build a good building without a blueprint, in the fashion you cannot create a product without a Specification sheet. Let’s learn all about Fashion Spec Sheet in this article.
The Importance of the Pattern Cutter in Fashion
Every successful fashion brand has a hidden pattern cutter in the background. Read why it is so important to have one and the types of pattern cutting available to designers today.
Fashion Brands Need to License Care Labels
Tahir Basheer explains the additional importance of care labels to fashion brands.