Garment costs

March 9, 2023
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Did you know that there are many factors that can affect your final profit margin? What goes into the cost of garments? As a designer, there are a number of things you do to reduce your garment costs, but something that can have a big impact with this, is fabric width. I recently had a…

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Tech skills to learn when starting your own fashion business

December 9, 2022
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Starting Your Own Fashion Business

Thinking of starting your own fashion label? I had a really great question come through this week from one of our listeners that I would like to discuss today, and the question was: “If my plan is to create my fashion label one day, what fashion specific tech skills should I learn, that would have…

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What happens behind the scenes in the fashion industry?

October 7, 2022
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Behind The Scenes Fashion Industry

This week has been super busy but very exciting and fun as we have been in the process of our Start Your Fashion Business Workshop! As you must already know, this is a 4-part live video series for people who are thinking of starting their own fashion label or looking to move their label onshore.…

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Understanding Fabrics and one reason why you aren’t hearing back from fabric agents

September 27, 2022
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Understanding fabrics

I see majority of my clients getting stuck with fabrics and I see this as the number one stumbling block for pretty much all of our clients. Yesterday, I had a conversation with one of my mentees who is working on her special range of clothing, and she mentioned how stuck she is in the…

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