Following up on the first post, today’s entry discusses a consignment trend exemplified by a retailer I will call SA. This company has been selling young ladies apparel via the web for several years.
SA promotes an emerging designer’s program that sounds pretty exciting to someone who is just getting started but it is not without formidable and costly risks.…
This could be considered part two of On becoming a pattern maker. The difference is that the first entry focused on how to go about getting training while today’s entry discusses how to go about entering the business if you have some training and experience albeit not in the industry.…
I’m away and was on a plane most of the day yesterday (I’m in Miami, again) so I couldn’t post this until now. I do have some entries I’ll post this week and hope this will do for now. As ever, there are more entries listed on the archives page.…
Call it editorializing but it seems to me that consignment arrangements are evolving in truly draconian ways. It used to be that a designer and retailer came to terms and quibbled about replenishment, inventory shrinkage, shop worn goods and all that but the split was pretty standard (which I don’t like across the board, you shouldn’t do consignment).…
I decided to create a separate entry rather than respond to the first entry in comments because some people don’t read those. If that describes you, half the valuable content on this site is in comments.
Louise asks:
I have been measuring each seam – carefully!
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