December 4, 2018 | by Jessica Donovan
Have you ever heard the term “white label”? You might be wondering what exactly white label clothing is, or even just what the phrase “white label” means.
November 28, 2018 | by Jessica Donovan
When you start a fashion brand, you have a lot of options on how to sell your clothes to customers. Fashion entrepreneurs wanting to build a successful e-commerce shop have a mind blowing array of resources at their disposal. Two of the most popular are Etsy and Shopify.
November 26, 2018 | by Jessica Donovan
Working for yourself sounds great, but entrepreneurship is no easy business. According to the U.S. Small Business Administration, about 1 in 12 small businesses close every year. While the reasons for most of the closures have shifted from the sales-driven to the personal, beginning your own fashion brand will always pose a certain risk. However, with risk comes reward, and if you’ve always dreamed of designing your own collection and starting a clothing line, you should plan for success by knowing and avoiding the most common mistakes that fashion entrepreneurs make.
November 23, 2018 | by Jessica Donovan
Sustainable fashion is a trend that’s here to stay, and the environment is better off for it. Business Insider recently reported that at least 8 million tons of plastic enter the oceans annually – so much plastic that a dutch inventor named Boyan Slat has pioneered a 2,000 foot long plastic cleaning device engineered to reduce plastics contamination of the Earth’s seas.
Fashion manufacturing has always generated a significant amount of waste, but that’s slowly shifting.
November 21, 2018 | by Jessica Donovan
Fashion merchandise buyers work on behalf of retail clothing stores to purchase the fashion products featured in stores. While typical buyers interface directly with wholesalers and clothing manufacturers, the increase in private label fashion and influencer marketing has shown that there is opportunity for independent fashion designers to turn fashion merchandise buyers into a customer niche.
November 5, 2018 | by Jessica Donovan
Small batch production is a craft as old as time. For centuries, artisans have cooked up, assembled, and delivered quality handmade clothes and other products from their homes, and in Italy, from the factory floors of family-owned clothing manufacturers.
October 2, 2018 | by MakersValley
Have you ever thought about registering a fashion design trademark? In most countries, patent protections and copyrights aren’t the only way to protect your fashion designs. If you’ve never registered your trademark, why not?
October 1, 2018 | by MakersValley
Every industry has a formula for overhead versus profitability. Fashion is no different.
August 30, 2018 | by MakersValley
Another month, and we’re stoked to announce – ANOTHER MakersValley Platform release!
We’re making it easier than ever now to manage your clothing manufacturing project online. Last release, you learned about how we streamlined sharing images from your Timeline with your followers on social media. This release, we’re giving you the ability to share even more.
Let’s jump into it.
