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Store Spotlight - DIG

“Store Spotlight” is a mini project we work on here in Roni Rabl where we showcase our stores and their owners, with the goal in mind to learn and share about how to make a fashion store successful. And today we’re featuring Daisy from DIGQ. What’s your favorite ice cream flavor?A. CoffeeQ. What’s your birth date? A. May 5thQ. What made you become a store owner?A. I fell into being a store owner. I was a stylist but I had a baby and couldn’t take the hours anymore. My parents have stores and they helped me get started. Q. What is the most important tip you can give someone who is about to open a store?A. Best tip my mom...

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Store Spotlight - Istina

“Store Spotlight” is a mini project we work on here in Roni Rabl where we showcase our stores and their owners, with the goal in mind to learn and share about how to make a fashion store successful. And today we’re featuring Seattle’s Istina Q. What’s your favorite ice cream flavor? A. Favorite ice cream was Ben and Jerry’s Banana and Peanut Butter (when I still ate ice cream). Q. What’s your birth date? A. February 21st. Q. What made you become a store owner? A. Freedom. I come from an Interior Design/Textile Design background and was doing high stress transportation design (767 and 747 airplanes) and needed a more creative outlet. After 25 years at the store, it still...

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The End of Trend - Trends and Mega Trends

By Roni Rabl The system exists to confuse us.I just heard a talk of some Fashion people trying to analyze trends. They simply used the same word Trend, in various languages to lend it a different meaning.First there was Fashion. It belonged only to the Royal and the Rich. It was predominantly a Status Symbol and therefore the only changes were in the amount of money you could invest in craftsmanship, elaborate embroidery and the finest of fabrics.Then came the industrial revolution. Then came Coco Chanel.What she did to women’s fashion equals a Sea Change. A huge transformation, or what we could label today as Mega Trend. This meant walking into women’s closets and re- assessing women’s place in society...

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Store Spotlight - BB One

“Store Spotlight” is a mini project we work on here in Roni Rabl where we showcase our stores and their owners, with the goal in mind to learn and share about how to make a fashion store successful. And today we’re featuring Trish fromBB One.Q. What’s your favorite ice cream flavor?A. Coffee ice cream Q. What’s your birth date? A. November 7 Q. What made you become a store owner?A. I grew up in the rag trade my parents where manufacturers and retailers. I became a textile engineer in Vienna Austria. Visited family in South Africa, married then opened my first children’s store, had three. After moving to the US I went back into woman’s fashion Q. What is the...

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Store Spotlight - Rhona’s

“Store Spotlight” is a mini project we work on here in Roni Rabl where we showcase our stores and their owners, with the goal in mind to learn and share about how to make a fashion store successful. And today we’re featuring Rhona’s!Q. What’s your favorite ice cream flavor?A. Don’t like ice cream much. Favorite would be VanillaQ. What’s your birth date? A. Feb 24Q. What made you become a store owner?A. My love of fashion and ability to put my friends together.Q. What is the most important tip you can give someone who is about to open a store?A. To open a store, don’t do it for the clothing at wholesale. It requires very hard work. Lots of time,...

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