Great resources for designers starting their first collections
I’ve been scoping around for good online resources that give advice to fashion companies starting their own lines. Startafashionbusiness.co.uk has a wealth of articles dealing with everything from publicity, getting noticed by buyers, and financing.
A lot of designers fresh out of school are brimming over with ideas, but have little idea of how to structure [...]
Good news for some in difficult retail climate
The FT has an interesting article on how sales of online fashion retailer ASOS have more than doubled year-on-year since the last holiday period.
Why is this? Partially it’s the tolerance of low margins that online retailers have.
This year could be good for smaller luxury brands trying to gain some ground
With Neiman Marcus slashing 375 jobs, possibly in response to a 27.5 per cent decline in sales this December, the outlook for large luxury brands is grim.
Times have changed, but how much?
Quoted in a fascinating write-up of a discussion between top retail CEOs Mickey Drexler, CEO of J-Crew, thinks that “The world is not about [...]
News of the World (on a Hanger)!
The last months have been very exciting for us here at World on a Hanger. In the course of building a web-application that promises to help fashion designers and small labels with the business side of things we come across all sorts of wonderful things. That’s why we’ve decided to set up a blog where [...]