Its Big

"If we had this trade show at the beginning of the summer, we would have saved like 99% of the stress we've endured here up until this point," our famed lead designer Adam Williams said. How right he was, and how happy I was that he was so. We've just finished our last push for fabric buying, and I can now say confidently that all of our fabrics for MMM3: The Final Countdown are now in the pipeline. This is a big step for us, as we've seen our ups and mostly downs of fabric buying in this here middle kingdom.

This trade fair was absolutely huge, I mean "ginormous" (to quote one Cliff Stevens). Picture a building, the size of two hockey rinks (or maybe 2 football fields), crammed with Chinese vendors pitching everything from buttons to cashmere. Then multiply that by 8. 8 buildings. It took me 3 days to see everything, and even then I had missed probably half as I was weighted down with all sorts of brochures and samples. I have to make a new shelf in my office for all the brochures and samples I got (we make furniture in China, its cheaper, and done by a cool guy who works on the street. No, not like he hustles money or pimps or anything, he actually makes the shelf or whatever you want right there on the street, his workshop)

So now I'm following up with all of these guys that I made "playbooks" for at the trade fair today. I literally have a course of events mapped out for each fabric, to make sure that you'll be able to order your kickass own DressMonkey in about 10 days. I'm excited, hope you are too!