“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. This week we’re featuring 3 stores, the lovely Berta Sawyer among them. Q. What’s your favorite ice cream flavor? A. Peanut butter cup Q. What’s your birth date? A. May 12 Q. What made you become a store owner? A. I never had any intention of joining the family business. My parents bought this business (from the person who started it) in 1972. I went to college and grad school and got (2) bachelor’s degrees and a master degree all in Education....
“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. This week we’re featuring 3 stores, among them, Flying Carp. Q. What’s your favorite ice cream flavor? A. Butter Pecan. Q. What’s your birth date? A. December 19th Q. What made you become a store owner? A. At age 41, I had considerable responsibility and rank in university management until my boss decided to make my life miserable. She thought that I had turned her into the attorney general’s office for misuse of university funds. I started pursuing other options, e.g., get...
“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. This week we’re featuring 3 stores, among them, Key North Boutique. Q. What’s your favorite ice cream flavor? A. Chocolate almond. Q. What’s your birth date? A. September 10th. Q. What made you become a store owner? A. Escape from the horrid and rather inhuman corporate culture and affect some positive change in our culture’s shopping habits. For starters, everything we have is responsibly manufactured. Q. What is the most important tip you can give someone who is about to open a...
“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. Our first featured store is CladIn, with locations in Rhode Island and Connecticut. Q. What’s your favorite ice cream flavor? A. Vanilla Q. What’s your birth date? A. July 18 Q. What made you become a store owner? A. My love of art and design Q. What is the most important tip you can give someone who is about to open a store? A. Don’t ever do it as a hobby. Neither your customers nor your employees will take you seriously and...
By Roni Rabl “Fashion is dead!” Li Edelkoort, trend forecaster, has declared, describing the fashion industry as “a ridiculous and pathetic parody of what it has been”. Lee Edelkoort is one of the world’s most influential fashion forecasters today. The dezeen magazine describes the Edekoorts storm she fired at the industry during a lecture in Capetown in much wrath “This is the end of fashion as we know it”. Edelkoort’s fire is mainly directed towards the Cotoure Fashion as she remembers it, with precision in the attending to each garment. Haute Cotoure as it was is lamented. She claims today’s designers endlessly recycle trends from the past. Another firing squad was placed against the “perversion” of modern marketing. Everything is...
