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From inspiration to production: how do fashion brands create their collections?

The background article This is how a fashion brand's collection is created explores the process of creating a fashion brand's collection, providing an insider's perspective on the various stages involved. explores the process of creating a fashion brand's collection, providing an insider's perspective on the various stages involved. It discusses...

Background

This is how a fashion brand's collection is created

BACKGROUND - What is involved in the development of a fashion collection exactly? FashionUnited has covered everything, from the design and production process to the journey your garment makes from the drawing board to the shop shelf, in this background article. We will start at the beginning, with an explanation of what a fashion collection...

Fashion

When fashion and architecture meet: designer Kristin Brady at Metropolitan Fashion Week

At the end of September, the annual Metropolitan Fashion Week took place in LA, celebrating its 10th anniversary. Like every year, the gala focused on fashion and costume design, showing creations of the participants in front of LA’s eye-catching city hall building – a particularly fitting backdrop, as this year’s motto for the costume...

News

DMU students win prizes at textile design awards

De Montfort University (DMU) students won some of the top prizes at the Bradford Textile Society design competition awards. Final year fashion and textile design student Penny Kowalkowski won the top prize and 500 pounds in the Clothworker’s Company Mixed Media category with her hybrid leather and knitwear clothing piece. She designed the...

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Vogue Scandinavia wins Red Dot Design Award 2021

Vogue Scandinavia Just launched fashion magazine Vogue Scandinavia and Finnish forest products manufacturer Stora Enso have won the Red Dot Design Award in the “brands & communication” category for their renewable eco-packaging concept created to replace plastics in magazine packaging. That means starting with a bang for the Scandinavian edition...

Fashion

SS22 Fashion Trend Snack: the top 5 prints

Of all the trends for next season, Christine Boland’s Trend Snack gives a ‘bite size’ report of the 5 must-do colours, fabrics, textures, patterns, silhouettes etc to incorporate into your fashion collection. Today: it’s all about the prints. #1 Shadow effects as seen @ Fendi & Victoria Beckham Image credit: Fendi SS22, Catwalkpictures, Pexels...

Fashion

Special projects move Inspiramais, promoting innovation and generating new businesses

Inspiramais Connection, Leather Preview, Inspiramais Textile, Design 3D, +Estampa [print] and Creative and Commercial Connection are part of the event and have a team of specialized consultants Inspiration, research, networking, sustainability, diversity and creativity. These are some of the elements of Inspiramais' special projects. A new...

Business

Top 6 reasons for choosing 3D designs

A realistic fit, a more efficient and sustainable way of working, saving costs and gathering valuable data: These are just a few of the many benefits digitisation provides the fashion industry with. According to Alvanon, the global leader in fashion technology, 3D design is the next necessary and logical step towards professionalising the...

Fashion

Timberland- Designing a brand with global appeal and local expertise

One of the most recognisable and popular brands in the world, premium outdoor lifestyle brand Timberland has truly universal appeal, with many people across the globe having owned a pair of its iconic yellow boots at some point in their lives. Recently, the brand has undergone an intensive Creative Vision project in which it looked back at its...

Fairs

SAPICA, Business and Fashion

SAPICA is the most important international trade fair for footwear and leather goods in Latin America and the second most important in the Americas. It is the largest commercial showcase in the Mexican footwear and leather goods industry, with over 97,000 products exhibited across 10 pavilions. This prestigious trade fair, which is the pride of...

Video

Video: What Pantone Book to Use for Fashion Designers (TCX vs TPX?!)

If you work in fashion, you have to use Pantone colors. But how do you know what colors to use? And what's the difference between TCX & TPX codes? This video will tell you what you need to know. Source: Youtube, Sew Heidi, Pantone

Retail

Redress Design Awards proves that fashion doesn’t have to be wasteful

An exhibit featuring pieces from the Redress Design Awards 2018 opened at Fashion for Good Experience in Amsterdam. The diverse array of collections were made entirely from waste, ranging from the usual suspects of dead stock textile and surplus materials from manufacturing, to more unusual contributors such as furniture offcuts and sofa...