Spring already? Seriously??

Let me take a minute to just breathe here. The last week has been SO hectic! Now understand that my days are usually very quiet, but I’ve been busy, busy, busy for about the last eight days. I did my product photography and of course that shoot for DuJour magazine that I mentioned, and I ended up having to go back and do reshoots a few days later because we didn’t exactly get the whole set up right. I’m also helping my photographer build her website and I did my first in home consultation yesterday which went well and was a lot of fun!

Fall/Holiday sales for Love Quotes and Lauren Conrad are doing better than I expected. The merchandise hasn’t even arrived yet but the pre-sales are pretty popular. I’ve only got one left in the Bordeaux and Deep Teal Love Quotes colors, and if you’re looking for Moonbeam (white), well I can’t be much of a help there.

It was only about a month and a half ago that I went to market week for the Holiday/Resort collections, and I JUST realized that the Spring 2009 market is just around the corner! This coming weekend, actually. Well that completely snuck up on me. So, I’m heading down to LA on Saturday and I’ll be buying from at least two labels that will be new to the store; both are well known, and one is VERY popular. Feel free to guess

It drives me crazy how quickly this industry moves, though. In real life it’s barely starting to get cool again, but in the fashion world we’re worried about next Spring. Crazyness. I’ve looked over most of the linesheets and so far nothing has really grabbed me. I’m sure I’ll like things more in person but I think Fall/Holiday/Winter is just more exciting for fashion in general. Actually, this time last year was the first time I went to a showroom, so this kind of marks one year of being “in the fashion industry”; yet another sign that time moves ridiculously fast.

So, between now and Saturday I’ll be obsessing over line sheets, going back through the Spring fashion shows and studying the Pantone predictives. Wish me luck at the market!