Watch Me Design 8: Initial Costing
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- čas přidán 8. 07. 2024
- THE TECHNICAL SIDE OF FASHION: • The Technical Side of ...
Nothing is more important in design than to learn your customer's needs and that includes your budget. Costing a garment is an ongoing process of research, revisions, and renegotiations and it all starts with an initial estimate on what fabrics you can afford to design with.
Watch the entire Watch Me Design A Fashion Collection series here: • Watch Me Design A Fash...
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Welcome to my newest series: Watch Me Design A Fashion Collection. It's a little self-explanatory. I'll be designing a collection, sometimes I'll narrate a lot, talk you through my process, sometimes I'll just let y'all watch me work.
I follow the Fashion Design Process I teach in schools and here on CZcams, but this series won't be a 1 video = 1 step in the design process format. I'mma go as slow as I want!
If you want to learn the Fashion Design Process, check out this playlist here: • Fashion Design Process
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Cost sheet templates here: www.etsy.com/listing/535025754/garment-cost-calculations-sheet-template
Huh. I actually find this side of the industry quite fascinating! I mean, I guess most people would find it boring or whatever, but I kinda like it, to be honest! Who knew? ;P Thanks for the video, Zoe!
S1 E728... ah, yes. The best episode of the whole series
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Wow zoe ... you are simply fabulous.. I wish I had you as my teacher when I was graduating as fashion designer.. but yeh I have you now on CZcams😏..thanks for all these videos ..very informative... just love listening to you xxx
Just love watching your whole process. So informative.
I love this fabric series. I hope you do more!
Thank you so much for taking time to make these videos and help others along!
Thank you for this vital information Zoe. God bless you abundantly.💐💐
You're welcome!
Thank you soooo much Zoe.
Thank you so much for putting this video up, it's really helpful! I've just graduated and I'm so happy I discovered your channel at this point of my "career" that I'm trying to figure stuff out by myself. It's really intimidating :$
Great video Zoe!!! it's really hard to find good information about the 'tech side' of the fashion world. Thanks for sharing this! just love it ♥
Once again excellent tutorial!
I love your videos, very instructive as always!
Well organized cost sheet.
This is a wonderful upload...actually all of them....please talk about the branding and marketing a new collection/clothing line
I love this, Zoe! 😃
this is so useful stuff. Thanks
Love your videos 💕
I’m learning a lot
Keep it up 👍🏽
Helps a lot.
hi💘 I just found your channel and omg I LOVE IT🙈😍😍😍 your videos are amazing!
Hi Zoe! thanks this was very informative. Although I don't understand interfacing. Could you please explain that ?
I understand it now
Hi Zoe, loving your videos. How do you work out how much to charge for illustrations?
FOUND IT!! :)
this is awsome an important i wanna know more about wat is cmt headovers i mean the lower part i dont understand so much thaanks
Please Zoe! subtitles in spanish! Your work is amazing :)
Thanks ALot ZOe
So do I add up the selling price with the total cost of materials?
What I don't understand is how big retailers still go down SO much in price.
I saw a knee length women's coat this winter. Outer and inner fabric was 100% polyester, notched collar, two pockets, fully lined, three buttons - and they sold that for 39€ a piece. How?!
Is it just a numbers game at that point, that you're looking for your break even point and speculate that you're going to sell this many units above that?
Even if you're sourcing that fabric out of the most suspect places and having kids assemble that coat without paying them a living wage I have a hard time seeing that add up.
Disgustingly underpaying workers in terrible conditions to levels you can't fathom. The cheapest materials made in countries with little to no regulation. Cranking out so many pieces that they're earning off volume not individual markup.
Hi Zoe do you know where you can get header fabric /o swatches?
I got these swatches as a gift from a friend who is a fabric sales rep. She gave me these old swatches so I could make these videos. If you want swatches like this on your own, in the US, you have be a designer with a resale license, and meet with a fabric sales rep. You don't get this many, but you can go through what the sales rep has and pick some. Some fabric companies give them to customers for free, some you have to pay. I don't know how the process works in other countries.
If you don't have a resale license, or resellers number, you can go to fabric stores and ask them to cut you swatches, or buy small amounts. Some online stores sell swatches. The only one I know of is moodfabrics.com but I think there are others.
Is there any way you can do a tutorial on working on Excel for Techpacks or some sort of General Excel for Fashion Desgin? That is where I have had the most trouble in my experience as a fashion design student. Please and thank you.
+Oscar Perez Yes, great idea.
I'd love a video for that
If I do more of bespoke/ couture clothing how would all of this be calculated. Can I still use these pricing sheets to get an estimate? 😳
Why would it be different? The only thing would be nothing is divided--you would put in all the taxes and freight, all the cutting cost, etc instead of dividing it by number of units.
Zoe,about the retail price. Is The markup ratio u mentioned in the video the real general markup ratio?cause I saw everlane put the cost and retail price on the web, their retail price is like 2.5 times cost. And normal boutique brand is like times 4 or 5?
Retailers do their own markup independently of designers. They do what they want, based on their own research.
Zoe this might sound like a stupid question but what exactly is freight and duty? What does it pertain to? And Administrative cost what does that include?
Taxes and shipping. Admin is admins--all the people who do all the paperwork, production assistants, accounting, legal dept, etc.
Zoe Hong x awesome thank you!! This video came right on time
What do you mean by cau-sheets?
cost sheets
I understand that you would prefer to stick to the 8-18 price range. But what I dont understand is the quality of fabric at that price. So for instance labels on the inside of pants/shirts tell you not to wash a simple cotton chambray shirt, which is often cheaper to manufactured than a machine washable cotton chambray shirt. (Im comparing two qualities of fabric). I dont even know if Im making sense or if I'm even right! :)) Help Zoeeee!!!
It starts with understanding what quality looks like. You need to visit fabric stores. Online doesn't work. You have to go and look closely and feel fabrics at every price point. Visit different stores and look for the fiber content label. Retail prices are definitely higher than wholesale, but you'll start to get a better idea what quality looks like.
Cost, not costing. :)