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Fashion and Accessories Home-Based Business

If fashion is what your language is, then you can be good at fashion and accessories making home-based business. The world is thrilled with the enhancement that fashionable items and artistic outputs can do. Life could be dull without fashionable clothes, creative beads and pieces, beautiful shoes, nice costume jewelries, and modern bags. Young and old individuals are more open-minded in carrying what’s in. Women have become trendier while men have started to dress for the day-with or without occasion.

To start a fashion and accessories business, you must be aware of latest trends in dress and apparels. Be aware that your competitors are malls and shops that are mushrooming everywhere but be challenged to provide what they cannot which is house-to-house transaction. Your clients need not spend money for gasoline just to travel to the shops to get a new pair of accessories or dress. There are two options you can choose in venturing into fashion and accessories business. First is that you can get good deals from wholesalers and producers of signature and non-signed brands that are sellable. Second is that you can create your own line of jewelries, accessories, bags, shoes and watches. Whatever products you will be specializing on, you must zero it down to establish a more specific identity as a company.

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9 Steps How to Get Your Fashions and Accessories Manufactured

Quotas, sample costs, materials, capital, first runs – don’t know where to start?

o A simple step-by-step guide to getting your product manufactured.
o How to decide which manufacturer to use
o Where to find the best manufacturer for YOUR design
- trade fairs, online sources, agents.
o The pros and cons of hiring and agent vs. going direct.
o The facts about quality control, commissions, quotas and more.
o What you’ll need including letters of credit, shipping options, brokers and codes.
All of the above assumes you have done your market research in terms of design, competitive research, distribution, etc.

Step I: What does manufacturing entail?

Getting your product made and to market can be up to 80% of a company’s revenue!
The scope of this supply chain includes more than you think:
o Organization and financing, selling, design, purchasing, sourcing raw materials/manufacturing/finished goods, shipping, distributing and final accounting to determine success of cycle.
Typical problems include:
o Late supply (= canceled orders), poor quality, financing troubles, packing that doesn’t fit standards, packing leading to breakage, design without consideration of cost.
If you know what to look for in advance, you can save yourself lots of trouble.

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Gucci Loves you Japan

Gucci has created a limited edition of bracelets to benefit Earthquake and Tsunami ravaged Japan get back on its feet. The $100 non – allergic white leather bracelet features white and red wed, a buckle that’s in the shape of fashion house’s trademark horsebit and a medallion that says ‘Gucci Loves You’.

Gucci Loves You Bracelet

Starting from today these bracelets will be sold at Tokyo’s flagship store of Gucci and soon it will be distributed worldwide in Gucci’s flagship stores in United States, Europe and Asia.

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