Ode to My Fashion

Hello my dears! If you are following me, you know that I have launched my brand some time at the end of last year. It has been over 9 months now since I sold my first item. I have sold many more, thank God. But I will not be channeling Chanel anytime soon. I am still learning about the entire business, particularly the business aspect of it: pricing, marketing, selling, budgeting. When it comes to creating, I sometimes have to stop myself because I am bursting with ideas and I want to do it all. But I am not business savvy. Thankfully, I am surrounded by good people who give me extremely helpful advice.    Anyway, today I wanted to give you a glimpse of what I do. I always wear other people's clothes on this blog. Why not showcase mine? This dress is part of my latest collection made in Gingham, stripes and prints. I am still having a gingham/plaid moment, and stripes are like one my fave print/pattern of all times (I have so many stripes in my closet, it is crazy). So why not...

Hello my friends! I have started a business of selling clothes, clothes that I designed. I have finally started after years of dreaming and talking about it. It happened out of the blue. I designed one fabric that a friend of mine gave me into an embroidered short bubu. Then I posted the bubu on my blog and Instagram. A cousin saw it and asked me to make her something similar. I did, with a fabric my brother gave me but instead of one bubu, I made two. My cousin got hers, then her colleague saw it and took it. So I had to give her the other one (I wanted to keep it for myself). My best friend ordered one, my Aunt ordered one and some colleagues at work ordered as well. In less than a month, I had 5 orders of bubus, each different, and each tailored to my customers needs. But today's post is not about how I started my business. Today is about running a clothing business in my city, more particularly about the prices of clothes in this city of mine. "Firework" S...