Tag: manufacturing
SFD046: How to Authentically Engage with Your Audience for Fashion Entrepreneurs
March 26, 2018
As fashion creatives, we think if we come up with the world’s most brilliant design…it will just sell itself. If we just put up an ecommerce site, people will flock to it and buy our beautiful designs. Unfortunately…it doesn’t work that way. You can create the best product in the world, but if you don’t strategically attract and engage […]
SFD044: This Company Runs their Fashion Brand like a Tech Startup (and they’re crushing it)
March 12, 2018
Do you ever feel like the fashion design and development process moves at a snail’s pace? We often work years and multiple seasons ahead, and by the time product is delivered, it’s easy to feel like it’s already outdated. Voormi thinks about things differently, and they’re pushing the boundaries and timelines that fashion takes. What takes many […]
SFD043: Build Your Career as a Freelance Pattern Maker (from anywhere)
March 05, 2018
You may think it’s impossible to have a career as a freelance pattern maker in the fashion industry. And you’d probably think it’s even more impossible to do it from a rural town. But that’s exactly what David Russon does. In today’s episode of the SFD podcast, he shares exactly how he built his freelance career and […]
Traveling Overseas to Fashion Factories…I Almost Had a Full Blown Panic Attack
February 27, 2018
Imagine the stereotypical life of a fashion designer: frolicking in fabric, sketching beautiful designs, and traveling overseas to fashion factories. Truth is, a lot of us don’t do any of this. We spend our days in Illustrator, Excel and writing emails. And for me, after almost a decade in the industry, I’d never had the opportunity […]
SFD041: How to Set Up Your Fashion Brand Successfully, from Samples to Production
February 19, 2018
Tricia runs her fashion studio, Hello World Fashion, in DTLA. With more than a decade of experience in the industry designing, sourcing and doing production, she can help you set up your fashion brand successfully, from the entire design through development process, including sampling and production. One of the things I love most about how Tricia runs her studio is her […]
SFD040: Behind the Scenes with 7 Fashion Industry Professionals
February 12, 2018
It’s not often we literally go this far behind the scenes of the fashion industry on the podcast. But when the Outdoor Retailer trade show landed in my backyard (Denver), I knew I had to show up with my recorder to capture impromptu podcast interviews. Now, if I’m honest, doing this made me pretty anxious… You see, schmoozing in real life makes me […]
SFD039: How to Launch Your Fashion Line with No Experience
February 05, 2018
If you have no fashion industry experience, it can feel really daunting to try and start your own clothing line. Where do you source materials? How do you find factories and manufacturers? How do you sell your line to retail shops? But if you go slow, do your research, and have some patience, you’ll discover you can get […]
SFD032: BEST OF 2017
December 18, 2017
It’s almost the end of the year, and to celebrate how far the show has come in just 6 short months (thanks to you for all the support!), I put together a Best Of episode to feature some of my favorite clips. Now, this was no easy task. I re-listened to a ton of tracks and […]
