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The seminar held yesterday was a resounding success with designers gaining invaluable experience from Eimear Hawker at Topshop and Nigel Rust at EEF
Yesterday was one eye opener! Designers were given an outstanding overview of what its like to deal with New York by Eimear Hawker from Topshop and then a review of tackling production issues was then provided by Nigel Rust from EEF.   The seminar from Eimear provided a complete guide to cost and US uplifts, quota requirements, international trade agreements with China - USA and USA Europe, US customs (we are talking strict here!) labelling requirements, the COO and RN numbers (1****9), Kimball tags pick timelines and much more besides. Handouts where also given to each participating designer. Please note that care labelling and fibre composition along with the fire test regulations are absolutely vital. Another vital piece of information was the importance of sizing too e.g. a UK 14 is a USA 10!  Nigel Rust an ex manufacturer himself then provided an excellent overview of designer/manufacturer relationships, finding the right manufacturer and then choosing the right manufacturer for each designer and finally the importance of Lean Manufacturing combined with how to affect the performance of your manufacturer. We also had a very good example of the Gant chart too! So there you have it...we are conscious that some of the designers had problems finding the location so we will be running through this presentation again when we return from the Big Apple 14th September.  A special guest from Eve magazine attended as Fashion Enter are looking to collaborate at the Eve Style Show at the Clothes Show Live. Huge thank you to both Eimear and Nigel for such outstanding presentations. "This is just what I needed today to understand all the legal regulations concerning US customs, this seminar is invaluable and a huge thanks to Nigel on brushing up how to wok with manufacturers" Catharina Eden "I am a designer who is not going to NY Profile and found this seminar excellent and I am now rushing to get my Profile at Fashion Expo application in, thanks to everybody" Michael Hall Share this Article:                        Advertisement |
