It’s Time to Talk About Fashion’s Poor Payors – BoF – The Business of Fashion. This article is about the UK but it applies internationally.  As a fashion designer and manufacturer, you have to be very careful with the payment terms you accept from retailers. Gone are the days of accepting Net 30 day terms [...]

Here is an excellent preview of next week’s Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Australia in Sydney by Damien Woolnough in The Australian: Runway ready – Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Australia | The Australian. I’ll be there as usual.  I attend MBFWA each year to view the Spring/Summer collections and to meet with designers who plan to launch [...]

OK, I must have seriously been walking around with my eyes closed at Los Angeles Fashion Market Week last week in the downtown fashion district.  I just did not see the activity that industry newspapers and bloggers have been reporting. Apparel News reported, “There was a certain buzz in the air at Los Angeles Fashion [...]

The morning of Monday, February 18 saw me heading off for my semi-annual immersion into the Las Vegas fashion trade show week.  The February editions of the shows host the commercial debuts of Fall/Winter collections of designers across the spectrum of men’s and women’s apparel and accessories categories at 17 different showcases.  After an easy [...]

With a busy trade show January already behind us and Fall/Winter13 collections debuting in Las Vegas in February in front of us, let’s take a look at the trade season so far. Agenda Agenda is a streetwear, surf, skate and fashion show mostly for men that was held on Friday and Saturday, January 4–5 at my [...]

As I predicted, retail sales for the 2012 holiday season came in under the projections. With so many people still out of work and so much uncertainty about where the economy is headed, I think consumers did the prudent thing in pocketing their cash.  It didn’t help that all we heard about during November and [...]

Want to know more about the future of fashion?  Follow the ever growing world of Wearable Tech … The fabric of our lives – FT.com. Paul Brindley paul brindley consults  

I don’t want to tell you that I told you so but … I ended my review of the final 2012 Los Angeles Fashion Market Week in November with a “I’ll believe when I see it” about the optimism heading into the holiday retail season.  With so many people still out of work and so [...]

I agree with this article in The Australian.  We are post-everthing else, so why not post-trend in fashion? How internet shopping killed the trend | The Australian. I was at a Fall/Winter 13-14 and Spring/Summer 14 trend seminar a few months back.  The seminar reflected exactly what is said in the article.  I kept hearing [...]

Here’s a great article from The Business of Fashion on how the traditionally fragmented fashion industry is rapidly being pulled together by technology. Enjoy. Fashion 2.0 | The Next Chapter of Content and Commerce Integration | BoF – The Business of Fashion. Paul Brindley paul brindley consults

I completely agree with this article from Apparel News regarding the changing vibe on Abbot Kinney in Venice, CA.  It fact, I was going to write a blog this weekend about the same subject. Abbot Kinney Attracts National Brands – Fashion Retailing News | California Apparel News | LA Fashion. I was on the street [...]

Here is an excellent article from Apparel News that gives a rundown of many of the fashion trade shows in the US: Welcome to the Shows! – Fashion and Apparel Trade Show Coverage | California Apparel News. Paul Brindley paul brindley consults

Hopefully you read my blog on the first day of Los Angeles Fashion Market Week for Spring 2013 last Monday.  If so, you’ll know that my skepticism on what is supposed to be an improving fashion retail sector was relieved slightly by the strong foot traffic, brisk business and order writing that greeted me, especially [...]