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The Industry Forum's ever-popular "Zara Fast Fashion Workshop" returns to the UK next month, offering delegates the chance to gain an insight into Zara's ultra-fast supply chain cycle and learn for themselves how improve speed to market and responsiveness.
With quick response as its business ethos, international retailer Zara has left its competition way behind.
Acknowledged as the best practitioner in the fast fashion arena with the shortest lead times, Zara is enjoying a 20% net sales growth per year and one of the highest return visits per customer per month.
Last year Zara opened 129 new stores, taking its worldwide total to 852.
Industry Forum's workshop aims to show how other retailers can follow Zara's example and keep today's unpredictable consumers satisfied.
The one-day event on 16 May is spearheaded by Industry Forum director Ken Watson and will include a look at Zara's business model, a consultant's view on implementing fast fashion, a city viewpoint on Inditex (Zara's parent company), a discussion on Best Practice - fast fashion from concept to customer, and a workshop on process mapping for speed.
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Pantone, the global authority on color and provider of professional color standards for the design industries, is changing the way people talk and think about color.
More Alive with Color, the latest book from Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute, helps consumers transform the way they look and feel by identifying the best colors to reflect their personal style, and providing a portable color guide for easy shopping.
More Alive with Color features Colortime palettes that take into account eye, hair and skin color to identify an individual's personal color palette.
The palettes are displayed with the same PANTONE for fashion and home color system that professionals have trusted for years.
Eiseman uses the system to give men and women a precise language for communicating color.
The PANTONE Color Palettes help consumers take the guesswork out of choosing the right colors - from clothing that reflects their personality to cosmetic and hair colors that will make their skin look healthier and flatter their natural coloring.
Now consumers can take these color palettes on the go to make shopping fun and easy.
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It seems that environmental awareness is in fashion these days. Literally.
From EDUN, the recently launched fair-trade-produced hemp and organic cotton clothing line that is the brainchild of U2's Bono, his wife Ali Hewson and designer Rogan Gregory, to the organic cotton Sustainable Edition tees and undies from American Apparel, to the colorful striped organic skirts and dresses by designer Aimee Grubel, to the sustainable - yet - stylish shoes of Terra Plana to the eco-friendly knits by Canadian company LoooLo Textiles, it seems that designers are putting their money - and fabric - where their mouths are when it comes to the environment.
For LoooLo Textiles designer Joanna Notkin, her light bulb moment came while working as a jewelry designer for large fashion companies like Aldo Shoes and Esprit in the late 1990s.
"I [was making] flowery, very colorful stuff and it was flying off the shelves," said the Toronto-based Notkin.
"But I realized that within a year or two or three, all this sort of lower-end, inexpensive costume jewelry I was designing might have some part that broke off or the thing would have gone out of style, and it would end up in some landfill somewhere.
That weighed really heavily on me as a designer, so I thought, I have to make a choice here: Either not be a designer or find a different way
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Denied the coveted fashion week opening show this year, Sydney designer Alex Perry hit the catwalk early to launch his new range of Mexican-inspired couture.
Perry, a 10-year veteran of Fashion Week, is one of several high-profile designers to snub next week's show, choosing to unveil his spring/summer 2007 collection at an intimate salon-style show in Sydney on Wednesday.
His models showcased cocktail frocks and race-wear, but his signature floor-length couture gowns that dominated this year's collection.
Perry, who described the show as his best ever, said the collection was inspired by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo.
"I've used very strong black and white references, and red, yellow, and things that were beautiful colour-wise," Perry told AAP.
"And a lot of pink, which Frida Kahlo used in a lot of her paintings.
"The inspiration was Mexican, but I didn't take it too literally."
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T-post is a lot like having a subscription to a magazine but instead of receiving magazines in your mailbox - you receive T-shirts.
Every six weeks we take a news story that catches our attention and design a T-shirt based on that news.
You may not always read about your T-shirts story in the papers but in our opinion, you should have.
That's why every delivery includes a bit of the story behind your shirt's design.
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