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Fashion-Related Reads
As a purpose-driven fashion agency we love supporting scaling startups, early-stage entrepreneurs, and everything in between. We've curated the most essential resources for navigating the lingerie and swimwear industry while you're just starting out.
Read more about garment design, fabric sourcing, sustainability, and more!
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Best Books for Contour Fashion - Patternmaking for Intimates + Swimwear
Venturing into the world of crafting lingerie and swimwear is an exciting journey, but it's no walk in the park. Unlike the...
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Sourcing 101: Intro to Sourcing Fabric & Trims for Your Clothing Line (Part 1)
What is sourcing? When you're just starting, the idea of "sourcing" sounds vague and unclear. So to get started, let's begin with a quick...
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Color Standards, Lab Dips, and Why You Need Both! (Part 1)
Ok, so you might be wondering, what is a lab dip exactly? Also referred to as L/Ds for short, a lab dip is a small test of your bulk...
3 min read
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Is Your Money Mindset on Ice?
Lately, we’ve been having a lot of conversations about money. The way we think about money has become skewed from what its actual purpose...
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Lemons into Lemonade: Lexi Donato
Lexi Donato is the founder and CEO of LDLA - a body-positive, eco-friendly swimwear brand, with numberless sizing. It's also super cute...
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Creating Your Brand Values + Code of Ethics
Establishing your brand values is incredibly important for any business - small or large.
One of the reasons why it’s so crucial is becaus
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How We Design a Collection
A lot of people ask me about what our process is like. We always work a little differently depending on the client's needs, but in most in
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Lemons into Lemonade: Dana Dinerman
Dana Dinerman is the founder and fearless leader of Hulabelle: swimwear resort wear for every woman. Dana is a breast cancer survivor,...
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Making Fashion More Sustainable
For so long, the fashion industry was focused on MORE. Making more goods, delivering more products to stores, and making customers buy...
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Why Sustainability Matters Now More Than Ever
Another reason we need to pay attention to sustainability is that it's a growing industry. By 2021, there are predictions that "sustainable-
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Garment Sampling Made Simpler: The 9 Types of Samples and Why You Need Them!
Sampling is a process that you'll engage in when you're testing your idea to see how your sketches and designs translate into tangible garme
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Finding the Right Freelance Fashion Designer
So you're ready to bring your idea to life…. But, you're not a fashion designer, and you don't know the first thing about getting something
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Lemons into Lemonade: Lauren Quinn from Bromelia Swimwear
Lauren has multiple passions that she integrates into Bromelia's overarching mission: while crafting beautiful swimwear is certainly a focus
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Bra Structure Explained!
Are you an aspiring fashion designer? A solopreneur launching an intimates brand? A DIY gal who's attempting to design her own...
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Lemons into Lemonade: Kate Sisk of Hidden Intimates
Kate Sisk is the founder of Hidden Intimates, an "inclusive lingerie collection curated to help remind women to love themselves - piece...
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8 Sustainable Brands You Need In Your Closet….Like, Yesterday!
We've been thinking a lot about sustainability these days. More this topic has been bubbling up in the fashion world, especially in intimate
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Growth in Paradise
Before we left, I envisioned what it would be like for months and months. I manifested and I mean, hard. I believed and hoped for the best p
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Bali Bound: How I Broke Free From My Full-Time Job Without Breaking a Sweat.
Last July, my husband and I packed up our NYC apartment, put it all in storage, and traveled to Bali for 3 months.
The reasoning on why we
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How Do You Create a Tech Pack? (Part 4)
The shortest and simplest answer? You don't. If you're an early-stage entrepreneur and this isn't your area of expertise, it is far...
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