Bita Pourtavoosi’s Metropolitan Design: Less Is More

April 27, 2011 in Artistspringboard.com, Bita Pourtavoosi, Designers, Fashion, Jewellery, Slideshow

This is GV Miao’s second trail post blogged for artistspringboard.com scheduled to be published in May after the Royal Wedding. Have a preview here and leave us your comments, appreciated!

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Help GV Miao Fashion Blog Achieve Our Blogging Career!

April 21, 2011 in Antique/Vintage, Artistspringboard.com, Designers, Fashion, Jewellery, Sheena Bulsara, Slideshow

It’s the very first time GV Miao fashion blog was approached by artistspringboard.com (the UK) that we may be granted a paid offer based on the hit rate on this first trial post on Sheena Bulsara’s jewelry label “Handmade with Love.” Pls click into http://artistspringboard.blogspot.com/2011/04/sheenas-handmade-with-love-cleopatra.html and leave us your comments. Help us achieve our blogging career!

Let’s keep CLEOPATRA legend alive!

When I first saw the luxurious jewellery collection by Sheena Bulsara the award winning London based designer of Grant Riley Styling and Geoff Reardon Competition, I saw Cleopatra.

Challenging myself to create the modern image of Cleopatra, I would still make the young Elisabeth Taylor playing Cleopatra, the legendary female Pharaoh of ancient Egypt in an evergreen Hollywood classic “Cleopatra” as an ideal model of beauty and power the icon of Sheena’s label called “Handmade with Love” but restyle her with Sheena’s jewellery, which design I reckon is a perfect blend of vintage and new, luxury and down-to-earth wearability, and of the empress’ nobleness and ladylike grace. How do you like my idea to advertise your brain-child and I will be thinking of more, Sheena?
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Not A Research Paper: A Brief Scrutiny of the Macro And Micro Environments of the Fashion Industry (based on the situation in Asia)

April 9, 2011 in FashionCamp, Milano 2011

Fashion retailing/garment manufacturing has always been one of the most competitive industries; it is largely due to its complicated and dynamic macro and micro environments which closely link, and at the same time interact with each other. Externally, the economic downturn caused by the financial crisis once sweeping across Asia, the advanced technology and sophisticated manufacturing development, as well as a swift change in taste and fashion have stroke a strong impact on every unit involved, and influenced the marketing atmosphere generally. Internally, a firm’s relationship with its stakeholders – how it enhances its market share, or even strives for the position of the market leader by gaining preference from its suppliers, cultivating customers’ loyalty and dominating its competitors creates a unique marketing culture in the fashion/garment industry. In the following, I will scrutinize how both of its macro and micro environments play an inevitable role in shaping the distinctive features of the rapidly shifting fashion business model.
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