Fuel4Fashion

Hi! I'm Supriya Ghurye, a creative fashionpreneur at Fuel4Fashion - a virtual design studio for apparels and surface patterns.” Fashion is my passion. Colors play a significant role in my life. With a passion for dressing up & helping friends select the “right” outfits, I grew up deciding to change my interest into a full time profession. That’s when I decided to use my creativity to explore & fulfill my aspirations as a designer. The outcome of this journey is ”Fuel4Fashion - A virtual design studio for apparels and surface patterns.” We are specialized in women'swear, kids wear, gym wear, yoga wear, active sportswear, uniforms and functional wear. We have been working with clients from USA, UK, Australia, Singapore, Dubai & India To know more about about our services, check out Fuel4Fashion website : www.fuel4fashion.com

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Figuring Out Your Fashion Brand’s DNA, Part 2: Fashion Marketing And More

Figuring Out Your Fashion Brand’s DNA, Part 2: Fashion Marketing And More

This is part two of a two-part series on starting and running your fashion business. We begin with branding and logistics. 

Up until now in Part 1, we’ve discussed two elements- components that make up a fashion brand, and ways to find and source the right material. In the second half of this series, our focus shifts ever so slightly to the business model and deciding on a marketing strategy.

The…

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Figuring Out Your Fashion Brand’s DNA, Part 1: The Building Blocks That Makeup Who You Are

Figuring Out Your Fashion Brand’s DNA, Part 1: The Building Blocks That Makeup Who You Are

There’s a tiny bit of a difference between being in the creative domain and turning that into a business. The moment you begin thinking of your fashion design studio as a place where supply chains come to life, there are several aspects to look at beyond doing just the creative work.

Where should I source my suppliers and manufacturers from?

How can I build a memorable brand?

How can I ensure…

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The New Colour On The Block: Decoding Living Coral For Everyday Application

The New Colour On The Block: Decoding Living Coral For Everyday Application

When in doubt, always be childlike.

That statement sums up our collective need to get away from the complicated and embrace life’s little joys. And what better color to sum that feeling up than Living Coral? Pantone’s color of the year for 2019 is remarkable as it is mellow, and it makes a statement because of its simplicity.

Indeed, there’s never been a better time than now to think about all…

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A Circle Of Colors: How The Pantone Color Of The Year Trend Started

A Circle Of Colors: How The Pantone Color Of The Year Trend Started

Some trends are such pathbreaking ones that it can often seem like they are traditions. When we think of Pantone’s Color Of The Year, we often assume that it has just been around forever, maybe even since before the world wars.

However, Pantone has only been declaring the Color Of The Year for about twenty odd years now. However, we can track trends from further back- fifty years to be precise…

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Technologies Transforming Fashion Retail: The Good, The Bad and The Bizarre

Technologies Transforming Fashion Retail: The Good, The Bad and The Bizarre

When an entire industry is focused on the singular idea of selling, every new innovation is often developed first to support it. Take the Industrial Revolution, for example. The discovery that quite a few manmade tasks could be done by machines instead improved production efficiencies, and gave us a chance to collectively make more and sell more in the same amount of time.

Today, we stand on the…

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Guest Blog: How to Use your Passion and Education to Start a Fashion Business

Guest Blog: How to Use your Passion and Education to Start a Fashion Business

Thanks to the support and encouragement of our readers, the Fuel4Fashion blog now has a growing tribe of followers on various social media platforms, from across the world. We have tried to keep giving all of you insights into what is trending in the industry and build up Fuel4Fashion as the go-to place for getting an idea of emerging global fashion trends as well as insightful information about…

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Range Planning: From Ideas To Inspiration For A Men’s Casual Line

Range Planning: From Ideas To Inspiration For A Men’s Casual Line

In the previous blog, we discussed range planning and how inspiration boards, color palettes, and sketches can be used in sequence to design a women’s clothing line. This week, we see how the same process can be used to come up with the men’s line.

Fashion designers have superpowers. One of those powers is creativity, while the other is the ability to break creativity down into a process. The…

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Range Planning: From Inspiration To Product For A Women’s Clothing Line

Range Planning: From Inspiration To Product For A Women’s Clothing Line

Planning well is a job half done, the saying goes. For most professions needing creativity, it is hard to pin down a process. We don’t often know whether the inspiration comes first or the process. However, having a linear process in place is useful for those occasions when the time is short and it is imperative that you get results in a short period.

Under such circumstances, a process keeps you…

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Adapting Streetwear Into Mainstream Fashion: The Men’s Casual Wear Edit

Adapting Streetwear Into Mainstream Fashion: The Men’s Casual Wear Edit

This time around on the streets, it is the men that did it better. Stepping away from conventions in a variety of self-expression, we spotted everything from kimono adaptations to safari jackets, stripes, , and some amazing shoes at the fashion week streets this time around.

This feature is aimed at giving you ideas across apparel categories to adapt some of these styles into your upcoming…

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Adapting Streetwear Into Mainstream Fashion: The Women’s Casual Wear Edit

Adapting Streetwear Into Mainstream Fashion: The Women’s Casual Wear Edit

Streetwear is taking the world by storm, and there may just come a time when it is impossible to find casual clothing without at least one street motif. In keeping with this newfound preference for all things street, designers are finding new and exciting ways to incorporate elements from streetwear into casual wear all around the world.

As a designer, is this what you’re trying to do as well?…

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The Growing Market For Streetwear Trends in 2019

The Growing Market For Streetwear Trends in 2019

Now that we’ve put major fashion events behind us, it is time to get back to business as usual!

One common theme that stood out at Fashion Weeks this year is the adaptation of streetwear trends and motifs into what is typically high-end or luxury fashion. For example, Miu Miu experimented with colors that are usually considered outdoor. Around the globe, streetwear is translating into more than…

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Milan vs. Paris Fashion Week Spring Summer 2019 : The Clash Of The Titans

Milan vs. Paris Fashion Week Spring Summer 2019 : The Clash Of The Titans

While London and New York are known more for the versatility and styles from several designers, the hallowed halls of Milan and Paris are almost exclusively reserved for high fashion. Several designers come to showcase their collections here, too, but it is often the big names that get the spotlight and the attention that comes with it.

Comparing fashion trends from two events as diverse as the…

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New York vs. London Spring Summer 2019: Which Fashion Week Did It Better?

New York vs. London Spring Summer 2019: Which Fashion Week Did It Better?

Fashion trends are as fleeting as the lovely vase of roses at home that holds so much promise on day one, only to give up entirely on day three. However, isn’t that what we love? The sheer variety that each season brings to the runway is outdone only by the street styles that are so often on display.

New York and London fashion Weeks are no different. They’re well behind us now, but there are a…

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The Big Hits And Glaring Misses From Paris Fashion Week

The Big Hits And Glaring Misses From Paris Fashion Week

We’re finally winding up the whirlwind of fashion events that seem to have occupied our collective attention over the last two months. As the last show of the season, expectations ran high from Paris Fashion Week. Some of our favorite designers didn’t disappoint, while others did just that, and glaringly so.

In today’s article, we discuss the seven designer collections we absolutely loved- both…

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A Toast To The Best Formal and Semi-Formal Styles We Spotted At Lakme India Fashion Week

A Toast To The Best Formal and Semi-Formal Styles We Spotted At Lakme India Fashion Week

If you’re a fashion aficionado, an aspiring designer or a follower of celebrities, your timeline was probably flooded with images from Lakme India Fashion Week that concluded just a few days ago.  We know because we’ve been digging some of these styles, too.

Here at Fuel4Fashion, we’re huge believers in practicality. Some of the most stunning styles on-ramp often fade away from existence…

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Women’s Casualwear Trends For SS'19: Effortless Fashion Is The New Norm

Women’s Casualwear Trends For SS’19: Effortless Fashion Is The New Norm

  In April, we discussed the trend forecast for active wear in SS ’19. In this article, we look at the five major trends in women’s casual wear for the same season, as well as the adaptations that some famous design houses are already working on.

At Fuel4Fashion, we believe that inspiration is the core of all creative development. Our designers post sketches and visuals on Instagramto inspire you…

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Designing A Spring Summer Collection For 2019: The Loopholes You Need To Avoid

Designing A Spring Summer Collection For 2019: The Loopholes You Need To Avoid

Having ideas is just the beginning of the fashion journey. We firmly believe that fashion is one of those industries where there is infinite scope to ideate and design, but as a business, there are certain limitations on time and budgets. If you are a fashion label that isn’t planning for SS ’19 yet, there’s no better time than now to start.

A little over a year may seem like a long time, but in…

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