stylesmart.com is pleased to welcome Fraces Harder, author of Fashion for Profit, the industry guide on developing a viable and ulitimately successful apparel design business.

Stylesmart had the pleasure of discussing the business of fashion with Frances and learning about the inspiration behind Fashion for Profit.

Fashion for Profit was first conceived for the many talented students that I have had the pleasure of teaching, who want to achieve their dreams of one-day owning their own company, and of producing a successful line of clothing. The apparent lack of business information for apparel start-up apparel manufacturers motivated me to provide this critical education and business training. I developed a class for the continuing education department at Otis College of Art and Design, in Los Angeles. This "hands-on", "how to" class, provided the one-on-one which assisted entrepreneurs develop a small, workable clothing line, and get the business training needed to become successful in a business well known for its failures.

Fashion for Profit has been developed so that it would cover all the important aspects of going into business; licenses, business plans, bookkeeping, financing, costing, fabrication, contracting and the every day logistics of running a small apparel manufacturing company, plus the marketing (including E-commerce) and sales.

There have been many textbooks written about the fashion industry, but Fashion for Profit is a unique book, which fills an educational and information gap which has been unavailable until now. The book provides critical help to a start-up apparel manufacturer and resource information needed to operate a small business successfully. In the book the reader will find that it has been planned in four main sections of information to enable the users to get immediate help on topics of importance to them. Starting with Product Development, Financing your business, which then leads the reader to the production section and the many stages there in. The final part is devoted to sales and marketing of the product, including Mail Order, E-Commerce and E-Tailing.

Order your copy of Fashion for Profit ($45 + S&H) today by clicking Fashion for Profit and Fashion Business Incorporated. Please mention Stylesmart. Thanks!

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