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Tracking Seasonal Fashion

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Fashions change from season to season, and sometimes it can be hard to keep up. Many fashion houses collaborate with each other on previous season’s fashion trends to come up with new ones for the upcoming season. You can follow along by tracking the patterns from one season to the next.

One of the easiest ways to track fashion trends is to read trend reports. Many fashion magazines and websites keep you up-to-date by providing the latest trends as well as upcoming trends from different fashion houses, including clothing, shoe, and accessory trends. You can be one step ahead of others when it’s time to shop for the new season.

Another way to track fashion trends is to follow RSS feeds of your favorite fashion blogs. This way you’ll receive updated information as soon as it’s reported. For instance, if the blog is reporting on the release date of a certain fashion company’s line, you can be first in line to buy it. You may also be able to get some great deals if you are able to act quickly at some of your favorite fashion boutiques.

And speaking of boutiques, your favorite may have a customer appreciation membership you can apply for to be first in line to hear news of new items arriving and special deals. This will allow you to grab the new line at great prices.

By tracking seasonal fashion trends, you can become a trendsetter yourself, and be the envy of all of your friends.

 

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Do you have it in you to become and stay a fashion designer?

Catherine Malandrino - Fashion Designer

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If you want to become a fashion designer, you would have known it in your childhood itself. Fashion designing is a highly creative profession. A fashion designing career is illustrious.

You just need to have a sense for colors, proportions, designs, and structural thought. All these are very intellectual attributes, and very rare ones.

You would know if you like fashion if:

  • You love clothes. You love colors. You notice things about people clothes that other people would not notice.
  • You have an intricate understanding of colors, textures.You love faces. You can remember faces well. You sketch faces.
  • You love photography.You love people. You love beautiful people. You love their inner and outer beauty. You want to make them more beautiful given a chance.

The life of a fashion designer is not easy. There is a lot of competition out there. You need to be the best at what you are good at. As a fashion designer you are expected to innovate all the time. You are expected to have a sense of fashion that is unique to you. The more unique your fashion is, the better your chances of getting recognized.

Now the trend has moved away and back to commercial fashion. Previously, it was more about self-expression and abstract fashion. On account of losses, many designer outlets want fashion designer to create simple works that make people beautiful. People are still reluctant to buy stuff that is abstract and a piece of art and wear it on them. They want clothes that are conventional, yet futuristic.

 

 

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Fashion Breakthrough: Designing for an Established Brand

To design for an established brand a degree is usually a must. Fashion degrees are being obtained not only in the traditional setting but also there are many accredited online degrees available for pursuit.  Most established brands will require a degree, experience or both.

Job opportunities via an established brand may come in the form of an internship. Internships usually pay in experience vs. money but they are well worth the effort. Interns may do a variety of work and it may not always be glamorous work but the experience and life lessons obtained are more valuable than any money that could be gained.

Established brands are usually the trend setters for the fashion world. This is exciting to the designers because they have the opportunity to dictate the next exciting thing fashion world. They have available all the colors that can be thought of and many materials to work with.

Of course valuable experience is also available by designing for an established brand. Stop and think of the brands you are familiar with such as Channel, Ralph Lauren or Guess. These firms have a head designer as well as a huge team of designers which have valuable advice and skills to teach.

Designing for an established brand can be a great education and experience.

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Shopping by Season Can Drive Big Savings

Whether discussing mens or ladies styles of clothing, they can almost always be distinguished by season. This type of classification drives supply chain choices from designer and manufacturer all the way to the consumer. When the seasons change, retailers can bring in new merchandise. New merchandise can bring in new customers or regular customers that require fresh wardrobe additions for an upcoming season.

The design process for a line of clothing could start a year or more before the clothing is actually sold by a retailer. The manufacturer needs time to complete the design and costing process and then the actual manufacturing and logistics to get the product to the actual retailers. It is not uncommon for winter coats to be designed in the summertime to allow time for a new product to land in a retailer’s outlet.

Retailers and consumers work together to make room for the new fashions when the seasons change. Retailers often make the bulk of their profits on a seasonal line of clothing at the beginning of that season. This is when supply and demand is at its highest. Price would also be at its highest. When the end of the summer or fall, for instance comes around, the retailer must make room for the new lines. This is when deeply discounted sales can take place to make this room.

If one can afford to buy at the end of the season there can be some great bargains at retailers. There may not be much time to wear these items when we don’t buy by the season but there may be opportunities to wear these fashions during the next year or years to come.

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