juggling deadlines

Causing a Bottleneck? 3 Tips to Ease the Information Flow.

By |November 12th, 2014|

Whether you are delivering, once, twice or three times a season, the way you plan and execute the development and production of your collection needs to be both documented and shared internally, ideally from the start.

Here’s why:

I recently worked with an accessory company who had grown quickly and organically over […]

3 tips to keep your collection planning on track!

By |October 28th, 2014|

If you are working on a new collection right now you should have, or should be, building out your ‘Key Dates’ or ‘Time & Action’ plan for the new season.

The key dates is the backbone to your collection and is an important set of deadlines from the start of development […]

Inside the Industry tips # 3: Information Flow

By |October 31st, 2013|

What do you mean by Information flow?

The creation, design, development and production of a collection involve the generation, sharing and distribution of a huge amount of information. The information flow from the start of the development process to the end of production is a crucial element for the successful internal […]

Learn to love a list: Lessons applied to fashion or life # 2

By |October 25th, 2013|

Hands up if you are list person? Yes? No? I’m not just talking about work now, in everyday life as well. Still no? Wow, that’s impressive – You should tell me your secret.

I think it’s fair to say that to be good at fashion development or production you need to […]

Do you think a whale knows what a sock is?

By |March 17th, 2013|

2 years ago I wrote a book. I had an idea, I said I was going to write it and I wrote it. Here are the whats, whys and hows of the process.

The book, Blue is the New Black, is a fashion industry book which is a guide to developing […]

Because sometimes all it takes is a shake

By |August 8th, 2011|

It’s more than possible that you know what I’m talking about. I can imagine you go through the same stress as me from time to time, juggling too many things, spinning too many plates, and then  just when you are finally on top of the workload, your scheduling goes tits […]