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Believe it! The Winter Solstice is three weeks away (that means the days start getting longer again – yay!) and Spring is just around the corner. Staying positive, we present our 2022 Spring/Summer lingerie trend …

Are you a new designer who wants to stop wasting money paying retail prices for supplies? No, really, I’m dead serious. Can you logically explain why you’re wasting money buying your supplies at high priced …

Read on for the ultimate sewing guide – 28 of our favorite suppliers in the NYC garment center. Ideas, ideas, ideas. We have written this ultimate sewing guide, highlighting 28 businesses in today’s blog which …

I love to see the kimono really confident enough to come out of the bedroom and flaunt itself out of the street. Wow! But how to wear a vintage kimono, really? Make no mistake about …

This is a new designer’s guide for successfully shopping the fabric market and how to avoid the most common pitfalls. In the next few posts, we will answer the most-often asked question by new designers: …

“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the …

The pandemic certainly changed our plans in more ways than one. If your dreams of a honeymoon on the Amalfi Coast have fallen to the wayside, might I suggest looking no further than the south …

It’s an inarguable fact that many women have rebelled against wearing uncomfortable bras and become accustomed to the bralessness of the pandemic. Proof of this evidenced is in the free-the-nipple fashion trend of the summer, …

Baby steps. Leaving behind too many decades of fast-fashion – well, it’s not going to be an overnight process. We’ve gotten too used to buying cheap garments that don’t survive one cycle in the washing …

“Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue, and a silver sixpence in her shoe.” Old folk saying This serious business to the right is a scene called “Preparing the Trousseau”. It was painted in …