Manhattan’s shrinking Garment District has been a center of concern for fashion designers, manufacturers, and the like.  Proposals have been made to transfer production to other states or even to concentrate it in a single building, but no one has considered expanding the Garment District and revitalizing it to make the fashion industry a more [...]

 “If there wasn’t a New York garment center, Ari Dein wouldn’t be here.”  –Arielle Shapiro Founded in 2009, Arielle Shapiro has been building her brand, Ari Dein, with luxury designs produced in Manhattan.  Her architectural details and inspiration drawn from boutique hotel living have been contributing to her unique line of versatile sleepwear.  She dedicates Ari Dein to an old New [...]

Tiffany Ouyang is the editor of Quality Control and writes on the topic of internships in the fashion industry. Follow her on Twitter at @underqc Why make it in midtown? Is it the appreciation for American roots? Is it because designers need local production for better quality control? As Rosa and I paid a visit to the eloquent [...]

Tiffany Ouyang is the editor of Quality Control and writes on the topic of internships in the fashion industry. Follow her on Twitter at @underqc Dana-Maxx Pomerantz, the designer and founder of a women’s contemporary ready-to-wear clothing line, DANA-MAXX, is a graduate from the Fashion Institute of Technology and has interned at Betsey Johnson and worked in design [...]

Tiffany Ouyang is the editor of Quality Control and writes on the topic of internships in the fashion industry. Follow her on Twitter at @underqc “We realize [Fashion Design Concepts] can’t compete with India, but we can accomplish multi-needle embroideries and more sophisticated techniques,” stated Cortes. As Rosa and I slowly approached the edge of 9th Ave. on [...]

“In an age of global manufacturing, it is easy to dismiss these little stores – the man who covers thousands of buttons a day, the third generation family store that specializes in handmade silk flowers as irrelevant and uncompetitive… for a city that claims center stage on the international fashion scene, they provide young designers [...]

-Amanda Robertson, Fashion Institute of Technology, BFA Fashion Design May 2012 shown here with Charlie No, Parsons student and Nanette Lepore. This post was written by Amanda Robertson, show above.  Growing up, I was always interested in fashion and design.  I remember my grandmother telling me about this section of New York called the “Garment [...]

Check out this fantastic program about where our clothing comes from on PBS’s Nightly Business Report. Click here for video and full program transcript.

Not Dead ! That’s what I say. New York City’s Garment Center is Not Dead ! It is simply at that part of the cycle. Spring. ReBirth. Day to night and night to day, part of the ebb and flow, darkest before the dawn, these are termed clichés because of how frequently they are true. This [...]