Do you ever wonder how fashion trends make it from the runway to real life? Before clothes arrive on store shelves, every article must go through hundreds of steps and travel thousands of miles. This requires well-coordinated logistics for a fast-paced industry that’s already on to the next trend. “Shipping is the thread that ties our business together,” says designer Tomer Gendler. His eponymous menswear label has a loyal following including many stylists and their clients such as Hollywood A-listers Jamie Foxx and Adrien Brody. Since Tomer started his business four years ago, he has relied on UPS to help him transport designs, fabric and clothing around the world. “When we’re creating a collection, we ship almost daily, and every shipment is critical to getting the job done.” Behind the Seams Before Tomer makes his first sketch, he searches out unique fabrics and trims, such as cashmere blends from Italy, high-tech fabrics from Switzerland and buttons from China. After creating his designs, he orders and ships enough thread, fabric and trim to create samples, which he shows to fashion buyers in New York. These often are shipped back and forth several times from manufacturers in Italy, New York City or China until the look is perfected. Tomer works with the buyers to decide what pieces will be sold in stores. Then, Tomer and his staff figure out how much fabric is needed to fulfill orders. The production process moves on to a grading company, which tailors patterns to make the clothing line in multiple sizes. UPS ships the patterns, fabric and trim to New York and Italy, where tailors make the clothes. But it takes more than shipping to make sure the clothes arrive on time. UPS’s customs brokers take care of complex textile tariffs so that all of Tomer’s pieces clear inspections seamlessly. After the clothes are made, they are shipped to Tomer’s New York showroom for painstaking quality inspections. Finally, the clothing is shipped to stores across the country and around the world. If Tomer’s collection arrives even one day late, stores have the right to cancel the order, leaving him with thousands of dollars’ worth of garments that can’t be sold. On the other hand, delivering on time ultimately wins more business. “Being on time earns trust,” he says. “It says you’re a solid business partner.” Tomer makes sure he’s on time through package tracking capabilities on UPS.com, so both he and his customers stay in the know. By having a shipping partner take care of these steps, Tomer is free to forget about the logistics and focus on designing and running his business. Tomer’s menswear collection is available in high-end stores, including Takashimaya in New York and Tokyo. - NU.

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Being consistent with a favorable fashion, this might be the moment to do a closer reality check and find out if you are stuck in your fashion or can you still dig out of the old and into the new. Try this simple fashion screening to see if you match one or more of the scenarios. Do persons that are flustered seem to over dress more than others? Yes Persons that are flustered seem to wear the high top necked long sleeve tops, caps or stiffly formal and proper dresses. Persons like this tend to hide their repression though their typical clothing. Are confident plain dressers really conceited? Yes. Persons that are conceited dress less as they feel that dressing up is not a flattery to them and their assertive personality can over come the stylish fashion they choose. Are overly adorn friends or co workers having more opportunities in the work field? No overly adorn friends will dress up anywhere they go as they really do not have a place to wear the stylish fashions they choose. When you occasionally see a friend or coworker in the store , they might be just wearing it for a statement that they have really no place to go. “I never have an outfit to fit the occasion or a thing to wear” persons are they really discontent? Yes and how many of us have said that in a life time we cannot go because we have nothing to wear. Go in the closet and look at the latest fashions and clothing we have, however, still our satisfaction for the style we want is not hanging in the closet. Do bold statement people brad about the price of their flattering clothes, right? No. Persons that need a boost in confidence will not allow to brag about the bargains, but look for the social fashions status for exaggerated importance on the prices and the stylish fashion statement. Are persons who over dress or bundle up usually miserable? Yes. Shivering as if you are cold frequently, no matter what the temperature conditions are. Over dressers are persons that will seeking attention for closeness. A person that dresses and wraps up like you would wrap a baby is usually lonely and seeking out attention. As children dress different and have a different fashions statement, when they get older will the stylish fashion statement stay with them? No. Teen fashions are a variety of spontaneous expression. Teen years will bring out variety, activity and new phases. However in the later years the fashions will bring standard and authority. Are simple quantity or short dressers rebellious? Yes. Skimpy dressers are the exact opposite of over dressers. This classes of people will wear little to nothing to help with the over protection they feel with in themselves. The less they wear the easier to get out of the clothing when clearly feeling over protected. Persons who are tidy clothes dressers, are they superior in the trendy fashion statement ? No. This could be an impression they make with dressing to have a deeper impression. Tidy clothes dressers will straighten ties, swipe lint off your jacket to draw attention to themselves. Are you a casual dresser? If you have agreed yes to this question you are comfortable with anything you wear. Your shopping for trendy fashion clothing will not make a bold statement Your casual dressing will tell others you are comfortable with your styles and love the casual fashion. A casual dresser will be comfortable in any given situation and have kind hearts. Now that you have looked over the different situations for fashion buying and wearing, where do you fit in here. Are you a bold person, casual or do you lack courage and determination to get out of the old and into a new fashion.

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In an interview with Sky, Barry Moat says that he is again interested in buying Newcastle United and would then sell the St James’ Park name for comercial reasons to invest in players. Mark Jensen, Spokesperson for the Trust who launched our six week Yes We Can campaign last Tuesday said “We welcome any serious offers for Newcastle but this is deja-vu, we will continue our fan based campaign to make the club accountable to the city again. We’ve made approaches to Mr Moat previously and had no reply but we’re happy to speak to anyone who has the long term interests of Newcastle at heart. If he has any ideas about how he would take the club forward apart from carrying on the idea of selling the name of Saint James’ Park ‘for commercial reasons’ then once again we would happily talk. One point of immediate disagreement is the issue of re-naming the ground. We’ll be clear, under a Trust led bid there would be no change of name. We have a series of commercial ideas that don’t strip out the history of the club and would retain the integrity of Saint James’ Park”. I HOPE the depth of their contempt for Mike Ashley prompts Newcastle United fans to dig deep – albeit, mainly into their pensions – for the Newcastle United Supporters’ Trust. But I fear Ashley may have planted as big an obstacle to the NUST in people’s minds as anything else he can throw in their way from here on in. If two generations without a trophy has bred anything, it is the cynicism with which some genuine fans have greeted the NUST’s ingenious, detailed, well-argued and even better intentioned plans. Give it a chance, people. Other people’s failings do not render the NUST a hopeless cause. Dismiss it lightly, and Ashley really will have won.

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Newcastle United supporters have taken a huge challenge on in seeking to transform their well-worn contempt for Mike Ashley into a positive bid to take over the club themselves. The Newcastle United Supporters Trust (NUST) launched its “Yes We Can” campaign yesterday, sending emails about the proposal to 40,000 fans - they have so many contact details partly because the petition they set up last week, following Ashley’s staggeringly ill-judged proposal to rename St James’ Park, was signed, within days, by 20,000 people. The appealing idea of supporter-ownership has been nurtured by fans at many British clubs since football’s commercialisation in the 1990s, borne partly out of the realisation that a few businessmen were making fortunes for themselves out of owning the shares in clubs. British fans became more knowledgeable about the game’s finance and structure, and awareness grew of great clubs elsewhere which are not pure businesses, but supporter-owned sporting co-operatives: true clubs. In their passionate, well-produced campaign literature, NUST make predictable, valid references to Real Madrid and Barcelona, owned by member-fans who elect a president, and to the Bundesliga, where all clubs except two are majority owned by supporters. After months of discussions with interested parties, Newcastle United Supporters Trust (NUST) is launching the ‘Yes We Can’ Campaign which aims to raise funds to lead a fans buy out at St James’ Park. The Trust will be revealing partners over the coming days but has in place a buy out structure led by local firms and renowned names in the financial world. The Trust is mailing out to over 40,000 supporters to ask them if and how they want to buy into the campaign to lead a city-wide bid to buy back the club. There are a number of ways supporters can buy into the model which has been dubbed by the financial community as the ‘Barcelona on the Tyne’ which would see a ‘democratisation’ of the club to ensure that the current state of the club would not be repeated.

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