On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Lavolta Press <f...@lavoltapress.com>wrote:
> > On another note, if they are pushing for a fashion design degree with the >> aims of being able to design and then produce a line, then I would highly >> recommend Kathleen Fasanella's book *The Entrapreneur's Guide to Sewn >> Product Manufacturing*. >> > On Amazon I searched on "Fashion Design," and also found "How to Set Up and > Run a Fashion Label,""Basics Fashion Design: Developing a Collection," "200 > Projects to Get You into Fashion Design," "How to Open and Operate a > Financially Successful Fashion Design Business," (this seems very similar > the "The Entrepreneur's Guide,") and a number of other books on setting up > and running your own design business, as well as books I have not mentioned > that focus entering the industry by working for other companies. Some of > these books look excellent, for anyone interested in these topics. While I cannot attest to the books you mentioned, Kathleen Fasanella's book *The Entrepreneur's Guide to Sewn-Product Manufacturing* is NOT a book on how to start a fashion design business, how to start a sewn manufacturing business, etc. She takes one page and goes over a very short, brief run down of things like that. It's actually quite humorous! Her take on it is there are way too many books out there on how to actually get a business started, regardless of whether its in fashion or sewn products - and she is quite right. What her book does cover, are things that no other book has covered before. Her book is actually known as "the blue book" in the industry know for those who know of it. Some of the topics covered are: How to plan a line, style numbers, What are blocks, Determining market entry, Producting Scheduling, Sale's Reps, Market trends: what customers want, Producting costing, Setting up shop, Improving product quality, Cutting a pattern for shrinkage, Why DE's are destined to succeed, and many more. She even has the full table of contents on here website, and some chapters are free to preview. Here's the link: http://www.fashion-incubator.com/products_services/table-of-contents/. I recommend anyone interested in this to check it out - even if you are just looking to achieve that professional, industry standard look (which btw is not because of industrial secret techniques, but rather because the pattern and the process are perfected that they can be quickly sewn in repetition for large orders and still have the same qualifing markers in all finished garments.) And no, Kathleen is not paying me to advertise her book or anything like that. I have learned more from her one book than I have any of the other books I've read and looked into getting. _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
