Worn Wild
Had a squiz at Worn Wild today, a goth-fashion designer market... wasn't to sure how it would spruce up but I was very pleasantly surprised. Good size, good crowd, everything looked smoothly organised and very professional. Congratulations to all involved, I hope Melbourne and the rest of Australia gets a lot more of this type of thing happening ( Read more... )
Entry Fee) I very much suspect that the organisers were only able to recoup their time and money via the entry fee, from what I heard the stall-holders paid a very low fee (considering the event) for their stalls... I would expect the entry fee to be zero once/if the event continues and the name is spread, with stalls willing to pay many times what they did this time.
Price) one thing that really bugs me about fashion, and designers , is their attitude towards retail/wholesale and because most of them are fundamentally DIY - they are attempting to charge full price. Compared to what I'm used to, fashion is a lucrative business so this definately bugs me :)
Variety) While there was a lot of variety, I still felt like a lot of pockets were missing... very few corsets, didn't see much pvc (maybe its not in fashion now? i dunno), no culture-based-non-fashion-stalls (Fiend should have been there)... there was a lot of stuff to like, but not a lot to directly buy, some parts were too specialist as well.
Ultimately, it was a market, I'm sure a lot of the sellers did alright on the day - but if everyone was doing it as an expose and properly discounted they would have done 5 times as much.
All that negative comments said, it was very well done, a rare combination of national talent and business... one of the best displays of its type I've seen in Australia.
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Not having seen either the garments or the prices I can't say, but just from my own experience sewing, even if you only pay yourself minimum wage when pricing an item, you're going to charge a LOT more than most people are willing to pay - there's a reason corsetry costs hundred of dollars, and even then I'd be really curious as to what the effective hourly wage turns out to be. It's probably absolutely piddling. We're just too used to sweat-shop made cheap shit, so we lose all concept of the amount of work and skill that goes into out clothes.
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There was actually hardly any corsetry ... a basic PVC dress was selling for full retail ($200+), designer-designed most basic style printed skirts (and i think these were discounted) over $60 ... considering it was a "market" there were no major bargains (there was a discount hour but still only about 10-15% of select items).
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