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Get “in the know” about the ins and outs of the fashion industry as a whole. Learn about everything from design to production and sales.

What is the Highest Quality Cashmere?
Cashmere quality is sometimes impacted by the color; naturally, white hair is more desirable because it doesn’t require as much processing to dye different colours.
By Amrita Sharma4 years ago in Styled
3D Clothing Technology Helps Fashion Brands Survive COVID-19 Crisis
During the past few decades, the fashion industry has made great progress in material innovation, weaving technology improvement, sales model upgrade, etc. However, there is nearly no change in the way we develop products. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit the global fashion market and forced the whole world into lockdown, fashion brands, material suppliers and clothing manufacturers began to realize that the old way they ran their business in the past would no longer be feasible in the pandemic and post-pandemic era.
By Seemsay4 years ago in Styled
5 Reasons to choose a Lab-Grown Diamonds
Lab-grown diamonds are genuine diamonds that are also identified as man-made diamonds, lab diamonds are chemically and optically identical to diamonds mined from the earth’s bowel and are 100% carbon. Lab diamonds are made by creating similar conditions underneath the Earth that make the diamond grow: carbon, pressure, & heat. Now, there are two processes for creating diamond gemstones: Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) & High Pressure-High Temperature (HPHT). Each method is convenient for certain sizes & colors of diamonds. Because lab-grown diamonds are chemically identical to their mined counterparts, they display all the same brilliance and sparkle and are determined based on the same 4Cs just as earth-mined diamonds.
By bhanderi lgd4 years ago in Styled
Drivers of 3D Clothing Virtualization Adoption
The fashion, apparel and luxury industry is a market-driven business where competitions are highly fierce. Owing to the economic depression caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the profit margin of fashion brands are getting squeezed. To pursue further growth and meet efficiency requirement, many fashion companies are inclined to try 3D clothing virtualization across their entire value chain, from planning, designing, sampling, sourcing, manufacturing to selling.
By Seemsay4 years ago in Styled
5 Ways African Fashion Can Transform You Into a Style Icon
You might have thought that "Made In Africa" fashion was all about bold colours and tribal prints, which look great on the runway but are difficult or impractical to incorporate into your personal style. You might be wrong. You might be surprised at the variety of African fashion options available.
By Evie Smith4 years ago in Styled
Marketing Your African Fashion Business in 5 Easy Steps
Although the African fashion industry is rapidly growing, it is also becoming saturated with many established brands and many new players. It can be difficult to stand out, especially when other people are doing the exact same thing with the same fabrics. It is possible to be different. It is possible to stand out in a competitive market by understanding that it goes beyond selling products. Your products must be able to connect with customers. Your product must solve the customer's problem. In five simple steps, you can market your African fashion business.
By Evie Smith4 years ago in Styled
3D Fashion Design Reshapes the Clothing Supply Chain
The clothing supply chain comprises of several processes, including clothes development, fabric & trim sourcing, garment production and distribution. As the manufacturing is generally subcontracted to suppliers located in different countries, shipping and transportation of samples and finished products come as a main factor that affects the garment cost. During recent years, more and more brands are beginning to realize that 3D clothing technology could put them on a path to solving the profit squeeze problem and coping with the industry trend of faster production and shorter product life cycle.
By Seemsay4 years ago in Styled
Five Tips For Fashion Brands to Reduce Time to Market
Waiting weeks to receive the first physical garment sample after the initial fashion sketch is no longer the situation suitable for today’s fashion industry. Especially, after the rise of fast fashion brands, like Zara, C&A, Forever 21, which generated great revenues through reacting rapidly to offer on-trend products to customers, the concept of “see now, buy now” gained legions of devoted followers. Although there is still a long way to adopt such concept as an industry standard, the requirement of shortening the product calendar is the eternal pursuit of fashion brands.
By Seemsay4 years ago in Styled
The Leather That Goes Into Making an Excellent Bomber Jacket
In case you are searching for a men's aircraft jacket, it may be the case that you are observing to be each sort of material made end look like plane coat material, from cotton to plastic. Have confidence that there is just a single OK material that a men's plane coat deserving of the name ought to be made of, and that is certified, top-quality cowhide.
By Jackleather4 years ago in Styled
Transition from 2D Fashion Design to 3D Clothing Development
Five years ago, 3D fashion seemed to only exist in curricula of fashion design schools. However, since the hit of COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, the whole fashion & apparel industry has started to rely more on digital clothing technologies. Taking into account of its various benefits, the 3D fashion design will definitely become a industry trend. But we never expected the impact of 3D clothing technology would sweep the whole industry so quickly - from sketching, sampling to fitting. Such sudden shift, of course, caused some problems related to the practical application of such technology in the garment development process, of which the most crucial one is requiring designers to transit from 2D fashion design to 3D clothing development.
By Seemsay4 years ago in Styled
How 3D Fashion Design Technology Saves Your Time
Nowaays, speed has become a basic requirement for apparel production, very unlike what the situation was a decade ago. Huge successes of emerging fast fashion brands, like Zara, Topshop, etc., proved that the secret of following the fashion is not just a unique style, but also a high speed.
By Seemsay4 years ago in Styled
In Surprise Move Osh Kosh B’Gosh Announces Major Rebranding Effort
The Oshkosh, Wisconsin based children’s clothing retailer will completely retool it’s lineup which had in recent years begun to move away from the famous denim overall for which it is most well known. New spokesmen Tracy Lauren Marrow (Ice-T) had this to say. “Look, everybody remembers Osh Kosh B’Gosh from when they was kids. That one kid in the hood everybody beat the hell out of at the bus stop, the fat one with the denim bib. I know you remember him. He wore that dumb shit and so we all wailed on him until he cried. Anyways, we found that weird-o and fixed him up real nice in some decent rags for once. That’s the new OkB.” The company move was thought to be motivated by the success of its current skip hop line of children’s wear. It remains to be seen if this latest retooling can save the flagging retailer’s whose profits were the lowest in ten years last quarter. Sector analysts were not impressed and many pointed to the failure of last year’s Mosh Kosh B’Gosh mosh pit themed summer roll out. “Sure it sounded like a clever idea to introduce a mosh pot themed line of children’s clothes, and the name had a nice ring to it, but it turns out most parents did not think it a good idea to encourage their children to gather in small spaces to repeatedly and aggressively slam into other children as the ad campaign suggested.” said retail analyst Tom Smoothe. He continued “Hey I love Law and Order SVU as much as the next guy, but I don’t know how much street cred the Ice-T name still holds. Back in the day when Body Count was tearin shit up with hits like cop killer the name meant something to the demographic OkB is targeting, but now I just don’t see it.” Ice-T then appeared suddenly behind Mr. Smoothe and pistol whipped him viciously saying “see that n*&g%a” dropped his 9mm to the ground from shoulder height, shrugged and walked away.
By Everyday Junglist4 years ago in Styled