Samta Khinda – High Fashion Brands List – B

August 14, 2010 · Posted in Chic and Fashionable · Comments Off 

Listed according to alphabet A – High Fashion Brands

– Badgley Mischka

Badgley Mischka is an American fashion label designed by Mark Badgley and James Mischka. Badgley & Mischka met at Parsons and found a common vision. The two launched the label Badgley Mischka in 1988, though their bridal business launched in 1993. Badgley and Mischka are partners in life and business.

– Balenciaga

Balenciaga is a fashion house founded by Cristóbal Balenciaga, a Spanish designer, born in the Basque Country. He had a reputation as a couturier of uncompromising standards and was referred to as “the master of us all” by Christian Dior.

– Balmain (fashion house)

Balmain is a fashion house that was founded by Pierre Balmain. In the period following World War II, Pierre Balmain was “a king of French fashion” and outfitted stars including Ava Gardner and Brigitte Bardot.

– Belle & Bunty

Belle & Bunty is a London based womenswear designer label, founded by Alice-Louise Shreeve and Hannah Coniam in April 2003. The label specializes in bright and vibrant designs.

– Bill Blass Limited

Bill Blass Limited is a fashion house founded by American designer Bill Blass. It is known for its highly priced, beautifully cut womenswear, notable for its inventive combinations of patterns and textures.

– Birnur Garland

Birnur Garland is a Turkish born fashion designer from Istanbul. Birnur is currently designing for her own Australian label, Kromosome.

– Bottega Veneta

Bottega Veneta is a manufacturer of luxury leather goods, most famous for its Intrecciato line of woven leather. The company is based in Vicenza, in the Veneto region of northeast Italy. A family firm founded in 1966, Bottega Veneta was bought by Gucci in 2001.

– Brioni

Brioni is an Italian fashion house founded in 1945. It specialises in the sale of hand-made suits.

– Bulgari

Bulgari (BIT: BUL) is an Italian jeweler and luxury goods retailer. The name is usually written “BVLGARI” in ancient Roman style, and is derived from the surname of the company’s Greek founder, Sotirios Voulgaris (1857-1932).

– Burberry

Burberry Group plc (LSE: BRBY) is a British luxury fashion house, manufacturing clothing and fashion accessories. Its distinctive tartan pattern has become one of its most widely copied trademarks.

To be continued….

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Stella McCartney to design British Olympic kit (AFP)

July 18, 2010 · Posted in Strategy · Comments Off 

AFP – Fashion designer Stella McCartney will oversee the design of the athletes’ clothing for the British team at the 2012 Olympics in London, was announced on Wednesday.

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Become A Famous Fashion Designer!

July 11, 2010 · Posted in Industry · Comments Off 

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Dior, a flower garden of riotous color for couture (AP)

July 5, 2010 · Posted in Strategy · Comments Off 

AP – You would not think of John Galliano as a green thumb, but the designer Christian Dior’s opinion well-kept flower garden in riotous colors in the fall of the luxury label-winter 2011 haute couture show on Monday.

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Best Paying Careers For Women – In Fashion

July 4, 2010 · Posted in Industry · Comments Off 

Having spent the last 9 years in seemingly the most glamorous and desirable industry to women, fashion I am often asked about the careers and opportunities for women in fashion and more often what are the best paying careers for women in fashion today?

The beauty about the fashion industry is that it caters for the creative and the business savvy as well as encompassing the back end blood sweat and tears in producing apparel for the Australian and global markets.

Let’s look at the best paying careers for women in fashion…

For the business savvy roles for example Brand Manager, Product Manager or Retail Buyer you need a qualification in business, commence, economics or marketing. Candidate perception is often misunderstood with these roles and in the past 4 years they have become the glamour roles of the industry. The misconception largely surrounds the intense business acumen required to be a success. You need to be numbers savvy, have strong skills in product forecasting, budgets, calculation of EBIT (earnings before interest and tax) and have strong analytical skills and margin and profit focus. All too often candidates see for 15% fascination with the product side of these roles and fail to see that 85% of the job is spent behind an excel spreadsheet.

Salaries in Australia for Brand Manager, Product Manager and Retail buyer vary greatly and are very dependent on the size of the company. With this said, some of the larger brands are the poorer payers. Brand Manager, Product Manager and Retail Buyers earn above national average to executive salaries at the top end. Longevity plays a big role in securing top dollar so proving yourself is essential. Your success will be measured on year in and year out results and growth so 18 months here and there is not going to get you into the best paying careers for women in fashion. You need to have some creative edge in these roles, so a sense of style and fashion is essential as much of the creative team is likely to report to you. These roles will see you provide product direction, range planning and product lifecycle analysis as a response to market forces and trends as well as the financial management aspects..

The creative roles in fashion are probably the most deceptive. Design is hard work and again longevity is going to go along way to allowing you to achieve your financial salary goals. My best advice when negotiating a role in design is to negotiate your increases when you commence. One of the biggest problems in increasing salaries once you start working is the lack of a remuneration plan at commencement.

To be a fashion designer you will need to have studied fashion design at any one of the various International Design schools. Getting accolades will also help. Make sure your design projects reflect commercial fashion and if they don’t leave them out of your portfolio. It is very off putting to an employer of a fashion designer to see arty unwearable fashion in the recruitment process.

As a fashion designer you will not only be responsible for the design of the ranges within the product budgets and brand values but you will be responsible for the outcome, market acceptance or rejection! It is very rare for a design graduate to score a top job as a fashion designer but occasionally it does happen. Your career path is however more likely to commence behind the scenes as a designers assistant. You will sketch, source fabrics, trims and accessories, cut samples, prepare range books and coordinate the design timeline with the pattern makers and sample machinists. Not too much creative here but at least you will be close to the action.

Prove yourself and you will be introduced to designing your own portion of a range with a bit of luck (and blood sweat and tears). As a designer assistant (graduate) in fashion expect to earn average national salaries. You will be competing with a big group of graduates all chasing the dream so embrace anything on offer and be realistic about the brand opportunities offered to you. It is no time to be a brand snob when you have just graduated from design school. If you decide to be brand specific be prepared to wait tables as it may be required for a while until the right break comes you way.

As a Range Designer of a visible and market identified brand expect to earn anywhere from average to executive salaries at the end. When so much hinges on the talents of a designer you would expect higher paying salaries, however, simple supply and demand principles unfortunately come into play. The best news is that when longevity kicks in (if you haven’t started your own label) the role of Design Director comes with a hefty pay packet. As Design Director of a fashion brand expect to earn serious executive dollars. Achieve this in fashion design and you have made it!

Let’s look at the engine room; Production Management, Operations and Supply Chain. These roles are the most critical to a fashion operation. Apparel may not be a perishable commodity but if it is late into store it may as well be. With the changes in supply chain and imports the production of apparel in the last 10 years has changed the nature of these roles significantly. In fashion production, operations and supply chain you can expect to frequently travel to operations particularly in the east and work in some quite deceptive conditions. Let me qualify this by saying that your negotiation skills need to be razor sharp and your ability to identify the right sources is essential.

In terms of qualifications you need a fashion production qualification, business or logistics supply chain management qualification or similar. Garment construction knowledge is essential. You will work hands on and be required to make the call on garment construction issues so it is imperative that you know the lingo. At the low end Production Managers in fashion earn just above national salaries with Operations and Supply Chain Managers earning exceptional executive dollars.

Whilst I have purposely focused on the highest paying roles for women within the fashion industry the obvious roles of General Manager, CEO and Company Director form the highest paying roles in the sector. It is difficult to focus on these roles when the opportunities are quite few are far between. Some outstanding women have achieved these roles in fashion with Sue Morphet of Pacific Brands crashing through the glass ceiling some years ago and moving up the scale with full force. Sue is of particular inspiration having conquered such an exceptional role within an established and traditional brand. There are other women like Sue earning exceptional salaries within the fashion sector, but the roles are few and far between. Salaries at this top end can reach beyond half a million dollars including bonuses and share options.

Natasha Zurnamer is a co Director of Rat Race Recruitment Online, the global hub of fashion jobs featuring 150 fashion job categories and new fashion jobs listed daily. To search or advertise jobs in fashion visit www.ragtradejobs.com

Models in space suits close Paris menswear shows (AP)

June 30, 2010 · Posted in Strategy · Comments Off 

AP – American designer Thom Browne Paris stellar debut – a cinematic performance piece with models in the same space suits and helmets visor – shut the city of spring-summer 2011 menswear Light show with an intergalactic bang on Sunday.

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Starting your own Fashion Design Business

June 2, 2010 · Posted in Advice · Comments Off 

What a lot of people don’t realise is that many fashion design businesses have started out as just a small home business. In a lot of cases these businesses would even have been started from their kitchen table or spare bedroom. The fashion business is definitely a business which could be started from home and on a very small budget.

Laura Ashley was one such designer who started her design business on her kitchen table in London. She went on to build a very successful international design business.

Another international fashion designer whose fashion design talent was sown in his own home and at a very early age was the designer, Bruce Oldfield.

They, amongst other designers, have inspired many to live out their dream of owning their own fashion design business and following their footsteps to success.

The fun and pleasure of creating your own designs can start at any age. Once the fashion bug takes hold, it can be a very exciting and exhilarating time. The
adrenaline will constantly being stirred by the creation and completion of new designs. These designs may have been inspired by the most unusual items, such as a brick, the sunset, an old pattern, an architectural building, or any item.

If you find yourself sketching or doodling designs on every spare piece of paper, then you most likely have a hidden talent yourself for being a fashion designer.

Why not give yourself the opportunity to start a fashion business from your own home?

You could specialise in various niches, including women’s clothing, full size clothing, gothic clothing etc. One way of starting your business would be to create a few samples of your designs and then promote them with the help of friends at house parties to find out if they are marketable.

When you have completed this initial research, you should then take your new business to the next level, which would be to prepare your business plan.

There are certain qualities required to run a fashion design business and two of the most important ones are, tenacity and determination. There will be many times when

working on your fashion business that you will feel like giving up and this will be entirely because of the enormous amount of work involved. This is when the tenacity quality will be required. You will have to have enough determination to achieve all the dreams you have for your fashion business success.

AnneMarie Callan has written an eBook about her own experiences of creating a worldwide fashion business from home. For a FREE report on how you can jump-start your successful fashion design business, click this link http://www.howtofashionbusiness.com(c)

Make A Great Career In The Fashion Industry

June 1, 2010 · Posted in Advice · Comments Off 

Do you have an affinity towards the latest and the most catchy fashion trends? Are you innovative enough to make a strong style statement? Do people appreciate your sense of style wherever you go? A career in the fashion industry may be an open option for you.

Careers offered by the fashion industry are glamorous as well as profitable. In this industry, you can become successful on your own. Many people in this fashion business are self employed.

Fashion designers are a creative bunch of people. They are good artists. They put down their designs in paper and give them shape on fabrics.

A Few Traits Which A Fashion Designer Must Have Are

•A good fashion designer must understand what his client needs.

•The basic point of his design.

•How appealing will the piece of creation be to the customers?

•A fashion designer must keep track of the latest trends at his fingertips. He must be aware of some things like the colors that are in, the cuts that are in etc. These things undergo a lot of change with every changing season. To some research needs to be done.

Some Fashion Design Careers That Are Available Are

•VISUAL MERCHANDISE DESIGNERS – these fashion designers are in charge of designing the clothes that are displayed on the windows. They arrange the fashion merchandise at the store. They are also responsible for styling up the store.

•FASHION DESIGNERS – these people are bestowed with the responsibility of designing clothes. Some of them work for popular companies while others manage their own brands.

•SET DESIGNER – these designers design costumes of movie stars and of theatre personalities. They even work for television artists. These designers have to work along with the directors and make clothes according to the requirements of the script.

•INTERIOR DESIGNER – an interior designer adds beauty to the fashion store. This is a very important aspect as it boots up fashion business to some extent. They add beauty to a store. They manage the interior space available at a store.

Education Required

The education that is needed differs according to the field of specialization. School is an important factor. But it is not the only factor that will usher in job opportunities. In order to be a successful fashion designer, one must strive to be a perfectionist, creative, must possess artistic qualities and he also must have a great determination.

An associate degree is a must in order to step into this field. Aspirants must strive to enroll themselves in a good school. They must select the right program that they are confident about. If managed carefully, the fashion business can be very lucrative.

Judy Ford enjoys writing about education and career topics, including fashion industry careers.

Wholesale Fashion Business – How to Break Into the Wholesale Trend Business

May 14, 2010 · Posted in Advice · Comments Off 

Superior fashion industriousness can hypnotize some individuals from exhilarating that it represents. And, like those actors and aspiring artists who want to see their champion on Hollywood paseo of renown, the target of the designer tendency is no less or superior.

They promise that one day their personalized trends decorator would show sheathed by the champions who walkway the red carpeting of the Oscar Awards, and featured modeling ladies and gents from the flight strip at the top displays of style in Paris, Milan, Los Angeles and New York. Even So, reaching the heights of the world-wide fashion demands hard influence, cosmetic and imaginative accomplishments, and an spontaneous style sense.

If you are an compulsive designer who has a ton of ingenuity, but not untold in terms of endurances, then there are umpteen levels to interpret if you want to yield into business. Instead of testing to fight for a situation at the top of food chain tendency you might want to think how trade plays from the bottom up.

One of the ideal experiences for each individual who wishes to grow a force in world style is to function as a emptor. It does not weigh if a small boutique or a large corporation employs you. By fitting a buyer in any surroundings trading tendency places you at the forefront of the contemporary wearable and marketing movements.

Acquire how a particular bundle of goods to respective marketplaces wholesale fashion is a fundamental factor in any business system. You would “meet and greet” to a flexible profusion of designers to whome would overflow your workplace with their innovations updates, hoping that you will sustain their lines of dressing with pluralities and demands from various wholesale fashion providers and retail sellers as well.

Sales Examples can be an extract from the purchaser is very worthwhile. Reckon their sales presentation and what certain you to think executing their merchandise line as it is being practiced with most of wholesale fashion outlets in big departmental stores.

Means of information available to your door pre-existing to priceless in grooming your wholesale fashion decorator. But, becoming a collective purchaser trend does not demand some technical education since it is already well thought for wholesale fashion and other several niche to come up with handsome wares and catagory knowledge to deal floor side matters.

You would have experience and training in an environment of retailing trends in order to be hired as a buyer. So, as you get a job without experience, and as you acquire experience without a job?

Always keep in your brain that you can simply care a productive dealer if you have sufficient cognition and experience about the type of business that you’re accessible to unfastened. If you are fortunate informed about the clothes, the contemporary fashion, finding delicate designs style clothing is easier

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The Three Best Home Fashion Businesses to Start

April 16, 2010 · Posted in Fashion Business Loans · Comments Off 

What could be more fun than starting a home fashion business? If you have an eye for style and a head for money, a home based fashion business could be your ticket to entrepreneurial bliss. Are you unsure about what type of fashion business to start? Here are three ideas that have been successful for other people and don’t involve a lot of overhead.

Sell Handmade Jewelry

This isn’t a difficult market to get in to, but it is a competitive one. It’s not hard to learn to make necklaces, bracelets, and earrings, but it’s to find a niche that sets you apart from the mass produced jewelry that’s already available. For example, you could focus on making necklaces and bracelets for petite people with small arms and necks. There’s a market for this since many small people with tiny bones have a hard time finding jewelry that fits. To learn how to make sellable handmade jewelry, take a class at a local bead store or get an instructional video online. Once you learn the technique, you can make a simple pair of earrings in under five minutes.

Have a Home Jewelry Party

Once you learn to make handmade jewelry, market it by hosting a home jewelry party. Invite all of your fashion conscious friends so they can buy unique jewelry designed by you. If you don’t want to make jewelry, sign up with a home jewelry party plan or find wholesale sources for jewelry to sell. This home fashion business that’ll really grow as you recruit others to have jewelry shows for you.

Have a Designer Purse Party

This is another home fashion business based on the party theme. Instead of selling jewelry, sell the latest designer purses through home parties instead. Don’t stop with design purses – offer designer wallets and purse accessories too. In such a fun, informal environment, people get into the buying mood quickly. You’ll soon be selling designer purses and signing up tons of people to host their own designer purse party. This is a home based fashion business will grow fast. There’s also a fringe benefit. You’ll always have the latest designer purses to carry. One word of warning. Buy your purses from a reputable company that offers true wholesale pricing. Many companies on the internet are not true wholesalers and some even sell knock offs. Don’t ruin your reputation.

Have fun with your own home fashion business!

Author: Kristie Leong
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