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Kicking off and planning for the Spring 2008 Season

April 21st, 2007

I usually use the textile show (which I missed) to kick off my season’s project schedule. So, that was last week for the Spring ’08 fashion season.

I know I’ve said this before, but I’m going to make a real effort to track the progress and main events of the season’s product development through this blog. I hope that a lot of you will jump in and comment to share what you’re doing to make it to market in time.

First things first, we need to work on a realistic project schedule. Figure out our main deadlines and then start working on the designs. I’m going to use good old MS Excel to create a project timeline and then I’ll create a project calendar.

We go to market for Spring ’08 in August. We’re going to try to run this like a decent project and not like we’re a couple of chicken’s with our heads cut off.

One week to our big event, so I’m going to make the project schedule due beginning of the following week. This week I will start to mull over the designs in my head. I’m going to try to come up with a theme and then find some fabrics to go along with it.

I don’t think I’ll miss a textile show again. It’s such a great way to kick off the season. Ah well. We’ll work around that. It’s nice that a lot of suppliers have websites now, so you can at least get a visual before you talk to them.

So, here we go. Designing for ’08 already, it’s amazing.

          

Entry Filed under: Design Project Schedules,Designing Fashion & Accessories