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Designing new styles and how to plan your design season deadlines

May 12th, 2007

Oh boy, there’s so much designing to be done. But I’ve actually done a lot of the designing; in my head and in scratches on scrap paper. Now, I have to actually work it out. I feel I have somewhat of a grandiose plan, so I have to make sure that I keep myself at the “realistic” level.

But I am really excited about this collection. And, as promised, I’ve hashed out all of my first drop-dead deadlines for the project. Let me just say that, get it in black and white, and suddenly, you realize that you don’t really have a break – that, actually, you’re pretty time crunched right now if you’re going to do this right.

We’re mid-May, and I’m looking at needing to drop the tech sketches for first draft patterns in 3 weeks. If I can do it in two, then I’ve got a great start. That makes it May 26. I arrived at this deadline by working backwards, and I’ll share with you what I’ve set up as the major milestones, the deadlines that I absolutely have to meet to make it to market by beginning of September.

I know a lot of us are racing towards the ABC Show in Vegas in September, so shall we race together? In the next couple of days, I’ll update my design project schedule to include my print / media / pr schedule. Because it ALL has to happen, and I want it all planned right. And, I’d like to be out “boutique-ing” before ABC Show even comes up – so I can brag about what a great hit the new collection is when I’m at the show.

Click here to open the PDF of my first hash at the design project schedule deadlines.

          

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