Inspirate (Inspirate and Motivate)

Monday, August 23rd, 2010

Please pass more of the “Black Market Caviar”…

I’ll admit, I rarely keep up with the whole Twitter-sphere…my intern does an excellent job at that. However, when I do browse about, I’m always always amazed at what I find from new designers, illustrators, photogs, to innovative retail spheres both on and offline. When I say retail spheres (i’m referring of course [...]

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

The Smartest Lady in the Room…Margaret J. Harris, jewelry designer

Margaret J. Harris has had her own interior design business and has been practicing Feng-Shui for over 35 years. Only more recently has she decided to pursue jewelry design. However, this was not in her original plan. A friend asked her to make some custom pieces of jewelry as a favor. This is when [...]

Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010

The Smartest Gentleman in the Room: Daniel Storto, The Art of The Glove

Note: Originally posted in Fashion By The Rules.
One can find art in many areas of fashion, but it is rare that one can find a master of his art in any industry. I have been lucky enough to find such a master and he is in the unlikely business of GLOVES!! Gloves have [...]

Monday, July 26th, 2010

Double dipping – Anita Moser, shoe designer

I recently came across a Swiss shoe designer (Anita Moser) and her very interesting and intriguing process of creating her Spring/Summer 2010 collection. Take a quick peek below, but don’t forget to go to Anita’s site for a more in-depth look at both product and production…

and now a brief look into the production.

…FASCINATING!!!
images courtesy [...]

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010

FASHION PIONEER – Natalie Massenet inteview on Business of Fashion

Today at 1:30pm (Chicago time), 2:30pm (NYC time), and 11:30am (LA time) [I believe these are the right USA times, if not the event officially starts at 7:30pm London time], Imran Amed, founder & editor of the Business of Fashion, will be doing his second installment of FASHION PIONEERS, thus interviewing entreprenuer-extraordinaire Natalie Massenet, founder [...]

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010

Linking up with Noblivity

I recently came across Noblivity on Twitter and am so thrilled about what they are doing. They are innovatively linking small brands/emerging designers with specialty retailers.
Noblivity’s focus, as mentioned on their site, is to bridge the gap between specialty stores and small brands by creating a niche online business-to-business Marketplace. They are [...]

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

Cliff’s Notes of my week’s (last couple of weeks) past…

I’ve only been interning at Qlix for about two weeks now and I already feel like I’ve gotten to do so much. I’m learning something new everyday and that’s what an internship should be all about. So here’s the Cliff’s Notes version of what I’ve been up to:
Last week, I got to see Chicago designer, [...]

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

Co:LAB…fashion films R Us

F.Tape will launch mid-July a brand new platform, Co:LAB, that showcases fashion editorials and film that is shot exclusively for the site. The features will include men’s and womenswear collections from recent design grads and young designers. This is definitely right up Qlix’s alley. Check it out at www.ftape.com

Wednesday, July 7th, 2010

I’m with the band…Clemens en August offers style on tour.

As described on their website:
“Clemens en August is only available on tour. Each season we travel to international cities, selling our collections in contemporary art galleries for only three days at a time. This tour system allows us to cut out the retail margin. A new exclusivity based on limited availability and not on [...]

Tuesday, July 6th, 2010

Other than Threadless.com …

Threadless.com is by far one of the most innovative and fresh tee-shirt community sites out there. However, it definitely is not the only one, thus we at Qlix have compiled a brief, yet informative (by way of just clicking on the damn link we provide) list of tee shirt sites that not only wanna [...]

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