funny story and jeans looks alright. see here:
Dawsen Jeans & Clothing » Kitmeout
Made in new york, anyone knows or seen them?
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House of The Gods aims to embody the spirit of our favourite artists. The specialist label was formed to build on Buddhistpunk's reputation of producing original artwork with world-leading rock 'n' roll artists and applying it to design driven fashion.
House of The Gods was launched by Buddhistpunk in 2006 to take advantage of the rock 'n' roll relationships that Buddhistpunk had built up since it was founded in 1999, both on and off stage. Buddhistpunk is well known for its counter culture printed jersey collections, that have led it to become the most integrated fashion house with the rock 'n' roll industry. House of the Gods collaborates with a diverse variety of iconic artists such as The Rolling Stones, Blondie, Pink Floyd, David Bowie, AC/DC and Iggy Pop to name a few.
This season House of the Gods will be showing two Mens and Ladies collections - Fall Winter 2009 Transitional and Spring Summer 2010.
The collections explore new ways of interpreting the iconography of rock 'n' roll, the very roots of our pop culture, in a way that captures both the moment and the tradition. ]]>
Marc O’Polo’s philosophy of Natural, Simplicity, Quality, Personality and Innovation was the inspiration for the sweatshirt born in 1972 in the CAMPUS segment. From Fall / Winter 2006 CAMPUS by Marc O’Polo became an independent division within the Marc O’Polo company. Featuring the large-scale logo on the back, it became an icon among the enlightened up-and-coming generation of students.
The CAMPUS by Marc O’Polo collection offers a stream of new twists on student-inspired style for discerning, young and innovative people.
The Spring / Summer 2010 collection is more unconventional than ever. For girls CAMPUS puts its focus on uncommonly combined patterns, extraordinary prints and intensive colours. The girls part features new shapes of dresses made of organza and voile, playful shirts and blouses as well as leather jackets in engraved optics. For boys preppy jackets, Sweat-Blazers and printed Nylon-Hoodie-Jackets are key pieces, as well as shirts with floral patterns and extraordinary printed T-shirts. ]]>
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Brands are being reminded that the customer experience and complaint resolution is still the most important factor for shoppers after new research by reveals that stock availability and staff attitudes were more important than price. 800 exit interviews were conducted in August and September 2009 outside 10 major retailers in high street and out of town locations and the findings have revealed that products being out of stock was the respondents top peeve, with 42% stating it was the most annoying aspect of their typical shopping experience.
Graeme Crossley, CEO of Brand Reputation, the brand management agency that commissioned the research, believes their findings prove that even in the current economic climate, Brands must continue to focus and invest in customer complaint resolution is they are to succeed. “What is clear is that no matter how good an experience a brand provides, customer complaints will always exist. The way a complaint is resolved is critical to the reputation of your brand. Successful Brands proactively demonstrate a genuine desire to resolve the problem and explain the steps they take to resolve the customer’s problems.
Crossley is recommending that Brands implement a Severity Index and resolve the most severe complaints first. He also suggests that Brands should invest more in the dialogue with the customer and less in compensating the customer. “Customers want to feel that they have been listened to and recognised – it isn’t just about money – in our experience customers with a genuine problem will be happy to accept a lower value of compensation if they feel they have been listened to. Demonstrate that you are listening. Show that you understand. Ask the customer how they would like the matter to be resolved. “
“If you can show that you have listened and made it clear that you have taken action then you have the opportunity to generate advocacy - if you go “over and above” the customer’s expectation then customers will advocate your brand more than they would have before they had the problem,” says Crossley.
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got me thinking we should create a thread of good and bad customer experiences from both retail and online stores. ]]>
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John Smedley, the luxury knitwear company, is demonstrating its support for British manufacturing by pulling all of its foreign production back to the UK.
The privately-owned business, which has been in the same family for eight generations, still manufactures at the Derbyshire factory where it began making its pullovers 225 years ago.
Six years ago it opened facilities in China but Andrew Caughey, John Smedley’s managing director, has insisted that all of the company’s production be brought back to the UK.
Mr Caughey wants to strengthen the Britishness of the brand and says that he has been unhappy with the quality of production at the foreign site. “We were getting panels stitched the wrong way round and delivery delays,” he says, although with only 1 per cent of production coming from south-east Asia, the move back to the UK is largely symbolic.
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is it time for fashion manufacturers to come back to home shores? ]]>