Mastering Quality Control in Apparel Manufacturing: Insider Secrets for Emerging Fashion Designers

Mastering Quality Control in Apparel Manufacturing: Insider Secrets for Emerging Fashion Designers

Quality Control (QC) isn't just about ensuring your garments look good; it's your ticket to exceeding customer expectations, minimizing issues and setbacks, and optimizing production efficiency. By maintaining stringent QC standards, you deliver exceptional products and establish your brand as a reliable force in the industry.

When done right, it will make your life easier, decrease your stress level, increase your profit, and reduce waste.

3 Tips For Grading Apparel Products

3 Tips For Grading Apparel Products

If you are developing a new apparel product for the first time, you’ll find yourself asking these questions:

At what stage should you grade your pattern?

What grading rules should you follow?

What range of sizes can you grade using one pattern?

Why Is Producing A Small Production Run Expensive?

Why Is Producing A Small Production Run Expensive?

Producing small batches has many advantages on many levels…but it has one major challenge - It’s expensive.

Prices in production are a factor of quantities, which is why most factories don’t want to work with small batches . It’s not economical for them.

Here is why.

3 Tips For Working With a Patternmaker

3 Tips For Working With a Patternmaker

Finding the right patternmaker for your product and knowing how to work with them and what to provide them is critical for the success of your product development and the production of your fashion product.

These 3 tips will help you get better and quicker results from your patternmaker.

What Is The Most Profitable Category In Apparel?

What Is The Most Profitable Category In Apparel?

The answer is one of these industry "secrets" that if you are new to the industry, and especially if you do sew or never produced apparel before, you simply wouldn't know it...

Yet once you hear the answer, I bet you'll go, "oh yes, that makes a lot of sense."

In this video, I also share info about the cost of labor and why certain categories are assumed to cost less than others...

How Many Styles Should You Launch Your Fashion Brand With?

How Many Styles Should You Launch Your Fashion Brand With?

What is the ideal number of styles that you should offer when launching your fashion brand?

On one hand, you don’t want to invest in a big line until you get your proof of concept, but on the other hand, you want your line to look big enough so it will be taken seriously.

Is there a magic number you should be aware of?

How Many Rounds of Fitting Should I Have When Developing a Fashion Product?

How Many Rounds of Fitting Should I Have When Developing a Fashion Product?

Developing a new apparel product is complex and requires numerous rounds of samples and fitting before you can get it right.

If you are new to this process, and since each round is an additional cost and time, the question becomes how many fittings rounds is reasonable to have? And how many rounds are too many?

How To Become A more Sustainable Fashion Brand

How To Become A more Sustainable Fashion Brand

The fashion industry is in major need of a change and needs to adopt sustainable practices. We’ve been getting questions from fashion designers and brands who are asking how can they become more sustainable in their business? Here are tips on what you can do to integrate more sustainable practices into your business.

How to Build Long Term Relationships With Your Manufacturers

How to Build Long Term Relationships With Your Manufacturers

COVID 19 exposed an unethicz22p3al fashion industry where brands and retailers treat their manufacturers with little to no respect. Those same factories that they depended on for years to produce their products are now being ignored, left with canceled orders to fend themselves.

The Future of The Fashion Industry Post Covid-19

The Future of The Fashion Industry Post Covid-19

We’ve been polluting the environment, mistreating people, and disrespecting human lives for years now. Could the COVID-19 pandemic be the BEST THING that ever happened to the fashion industry? Is this our wake-up call? Check out this video to find out.

How Can Fashion Brands Come out Stronger From Covid-19

How Can Fashion Brands Come out Stronger From Covid-19

In this video, Boaz shares ideas and three actions that fashion businesses and entrepreneurs should do during the pause period, to inspire and empower them to not only survive this but design a GROWTH PATH for their business!

Solving Inventory Challenges in a Consumer-Led Marketplace

Solving Inventory Challenges in a Consumer-Led Marketplace

The apparel industry is still largely playing a guessing game when it comes to merchandising, pinning their hopes on goods with commitments that were made months in advance with only an inkling of what tastes will be in the future.

It’s a high-stakes venture that many are losing.

How To Grow Your Fashion Brand In this Time Of Uncertainty

How To Grow Your Fashion Brand In this Time Of Uncertainty

ARE YOU WORRIED ABOUT THE FUTURE OF YOUR BRAND?

You’re not alone. We speak to business owners just like you every day, and they are all worried too.

The fashion industry and retail are in a state of flux, and that uncertainty is affecting many businesses, including yours.

If you are one of these brands that used to do business the old way, then most likely, you are struggling to adapt and compete in this new reality.

How to Guarantee Brand Growth in Today’s Retail? The Commerce Ecosystem.

How to Guarantee Brand Growth in Today’s Retail? The Commerce Ecosystem.

Retail is going through one of its most disruptive periods with pressures coming from all corners. This disruption provides new opportunities and a window into where you can go next with your fashion brand to transform your business into a retail powerhouse. Now is the time for brands to adapt to a customer-led environment by sharpening their technological capabilities so they can prosper in this new environment.

Do You Know Your Customer?

Do You Know Your Customer?

...Like really know your customer!

Not what you think, wish or hope that they would be like, and not just the high-level details of their age, income level, and location but the specifics of their character, habits, likes and dislikes, priorities, what a day in their life looks like and more as if they were your best friend or a close family member that you know very well.

In fact, when you start a brand (or any business for that matter) the first question you should answer is WHO AM I SELLING TO?

Design with Production In Mind

Design with Production In Mind

“We are experiencing many issues with our production, can you help us with this?”

If I had a cent for every time that I heard that sentence I would probably be retired by now.

Most fashion brands (especially if they are new or small), assume that since production is the last part in the process they’ll just worry about it when they get to it, and rather choose to focus mainly on designing and making the perfect samples.

NEWS FLASH - that is the wrong approach.

Branding vs Marketing

Branding vs Marketing

Many times they are used in the same sentence and referred to as the same thing...but are they the same?

Not in my opinion.

Don't get me wrong, I think that marketing and branding are definitely related and feed each other but they are different in their purpose.

The Future of Our Fashion Industry

The Future of Our Fashion Industry

Where do we go from here?

The fashion industry is challenged with this question for a few years now, with no answer just yet.

Here is where we are now:

  • Globalization and technology changed the supply chain.
  • Fast fashion companies disrupted the market and created new standards of speed to market. 

50 for 50!

50 for 50!

Helping you avoid the thousands of pitfalls that can shatter your fashion business dreams.
That is my job! 
And I love it! 
However, as a result, in the majority of my content I usually address what mistakes to look out for, which doesn't leave much room to talk about the great things that our fashion industry has to offer.
 
After all, there is a reason why soooo many people want to be  part of this industry.

5 Powerful Tips to Build Your Fashion Brand With Social Media

5  Powerful Tips to Build Your Fashion Brand With Social Media

There are 2 things I love about it:

Anybody can do it. 

There is no one way to do it which means anyone can do it their way.

Not to mention that its either free or at least can be affordable for any budget.

That is the beauty of social media marketing!