When it’s time to start thinking about fabric sourcing, most new fashion entrepreneurs and apparel designers limit themselves to looking online or heading into fabric stores… but they are missing out on some of the …
TEXTILE & MATERIALS
What Type Of Fabric Supplier Is Best For Your Fashion Business?
Selecting a fabric supplier can be, in a word, overwhelming. Most new designer-entrepreneurs are unsure of how to navigate their options. Every fabric supplier offers different benefits, from high-speed shipping to different minimum orders. …
How Fashion Designers Shop the Fabric Market
If you’ve read our Fashion Designer’s Ultimate Guide to Shopping the Market, you already know that shopping the market is a crucial part of the designer-entrepreneur’s job… and market research is a never-ending process! …
How to Get the Most Out of Fabric Consumption and Save Money
Five Factors That Affect Fabric Consumption If you are in the garment production industry, you may have noticed that fabric takes up most of your production costs. Well, it turns out …
You Wear What You Eat! – Food-Based Materials for Sustainable Fashion Design
Be careful – your consumers might be in danger of trying to take a bite out of your new, fruit-fabric clothing! Fruits, vegetables, and other food products are finding new purpose out of the …
Sustainable, Vegan Leathers That Your Fashion Company Needs to Try!
As fashion designers and entrepreneurs, we work in one of the most destructive industries on the planet… from dyes leaching into water resources to carbon pollution from raising crops and livestock for fabrics, it’s …
The Fashion Designer’s Dictionary – Fabric & Textiles Terminology You Need to Know
In the fashion industry, if you’re gonna walk the walk, you gotta talk the talk… and you don’t want to have to reach for your phone or your dictionary every time you want …
