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What I have been up to

September 7th, 2010

I have been so busy with life this past month that I haven’t had a chance to fully work on Fifth&Brannan. After a much needed break, I am back to my normal routine and ready to move this line in the right direction.


While I was gone, I…

porchfishing

… travelled to Indiana to spend some quality time with my family. Wine with Grandma on the porch and fishing at the pond with my dad.

shootingtarget

… shot my first gun. I can’t take credit for the hits inside the target, mine is the one right outside the black dot :)

liquorStGeorge

… attended my first liquor tasting… well, I watched (rough night before)


view

… enjoyed San Francisco’s beautiful view.

moving

… spent the week packing (we traded our amazing city loft for warmer weather… bittersweet moment)

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del dotto

… and finally, I spent the day at Napa with some of my favorite people.

It has been a great couple of weeks away from the crazy schedules and long nights, but now it’s time to get back to work. I’m very excited to show you all what we have in store for Fifth&Brannan.


-Katie

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Back To Work!

July 18th, 2010

Sorry for the lack of posts! I have been extremely busy at work (Back to School season starts soon), working on Fifth&Brannan… oh, and vacationing :)

Beach

Fence Beach

beachWalk

Night


Because being a perfectionist is part of who I am, I have decided to push my line into S/S instead of rushing into F/W.  There are a few things I would like to tweak before I send the line to production. This was not my first choice, but I felt that releasing in July would have been a poor decision.

Now, with having changed the collection to S/S, I am going to have to source new fabrics. It’s a nice change to search for cotton twills and lighter weight fabrics, but I am running into MOQ (minimum order quantity) issues.  I have found that most twill suppliers require a 5,000-10,000 meter minimum.  Being a smaller company, this is a big problem.

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I have searched tirelessly for a good supplier of cotton twill. Because there are so many colors to choose from, I may have that working in my favor. Most suppliers will let you choose from a stock collection, which means much lesser minimums. Thankfully, I still have my shirting supplier locked in and I will be using them for my S/S collection.

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Day trip to LA and the Garment District

March 4th, 2010

We decided to take a day trip down south to visit LA’s Garment District. With an area spanning several square blocks, we concentrated on the shops between 7th and 9th Street, all of which had an overwhelming amount of fabric.

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