The Fashion Savvy Blog

  • Manufacturing small orders

    Savvy  Garments is a clothing manufacturer with a network set-up for quantities starting at 800 pieces per colour. We get many requests from designers and start-up companies for manufacturing small orders. Of course we want to support new brands and…

  • Where is the Chinese Yuan going?

    Economic news that concerns garment exports on CNBC today. According to the news, the Chinese Yuan is at 6.6 to a USD. There seems to be an upward motion for the Chinese currency. Read the full story here on CNBC. For…

  • Pantone colour forecast for Fall 2017

    The Pantone company has released their forecast for the colour trends for fall/winter 2017.  The Pantone company has over 20 years experience in colour forecasting and they also have reliable data on which colour swatches get sold well and to…

  • ISO clothing size standards updated

    According to a recent publication by the International Organisation for Standardisation clothing size standards are getting a make-over. This is a very ambitious project!  A size 38 in the US, France, Sweden, Japan or China will be very different in dimensions.…

  • Top fashion retail trends for 2017

     

    Fashion United has published the 6 most important fashion retail trends for 2017. Fashion United writes interesting and up to date blogs about everything happening in the fashion industry. One of the trends according to the author of the article, ia…

  • China labour costs increase slowing down

    According to the lastes data published by the China Bureau of Statistics the steep increases of labour costs in China are slowing down. Data shows an increase of 3.4% which is lower than the increases in the previous years. Increased labour…

  • China labour costs still competitive

    Recent data comparing labour costs in Asia places China in the middle. With Bangladesh as the lowest wage country and Japan as the highest wage country, China ranks slightly above the Philippines but still below Malaysia.

    It needs to be mention…