Collab!

CoLLAboRatiON

Welcome back readers!

I bet some of us hardly want to read a thing about fashion on a day like this, it is Black Friday. We just had to deal with creating a super cute outfit to impress our family on Thanksgiving dinner, and we just had to deal with people who were trying to take the shoes that were on sale for midnight sale racks at the mall! 

But before putting your hands on all the different clothes, shoes, accessories, and make up, did we consider how much time and effort was put into each individual thing at the store? It had to come from not only one person, but an entire group of people who decided that the piece was good enough to be sold. Yes, an entire group, anything and everything that you can think of, came from a collaborative work and collaborative ideas, in order to have the best possible offered to us when we shop. 

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There are many different ways that collaboration comes into play when it come to fashion! There are many steps that fashion objects go through before they are sold to the public, they go through the designing, editing, testing, visualizing, developing, and presenting. All of these step are very broad, but I can only imagine the many other things that they go through. The reason so many steps are includes is to make sure they are creating something that will be successfully sold and there will be a high demand.  All these steps are done by many different people, they pass down the item to others for different ideas and perspectives, with the collaboration of others, will perfect the product. 

 

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Collaboration is an exciting thing for the world of fashion, it creates more complex ideas, that when overcame, they become extraordinary pieces! If it only took the idea of one person to create a piece of clothing, it wouldn't contain the many tiny details that make a piece great for a variety of buyers. Let's have a shirt as an example, if the idea was designed by one person and had no others ideas of others, that shirt would only be for those of the same taste of the designer, which would be too few and the shirt would not have a high demand. Rather than someone beginning the design of a shirt, and having it passed to others for corrections and more details incorporated into the shirt, that would give the shirt many different elements that will make it something that many buyers would look for.

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Above, we see two different men's shirt, the one on the left is just a simple white shirt, it started of as a design of one person with not much complexity or ideas that would make the shirt appealing to buy. 

The shirt on the right has more ideas incorporated, it may have had the idea of one person to add long sleeves for those who get a bit more cold, another person could have added the idea of buttons, another may have suggested a collar to make it more formal, another added some color to make the shirt more appealing, and finally another could have suggested to add a plaid pattern in order to create variety. This is only a very simple example of how collaboration may have been used in order to create a fear better product, something that would have a higher demand than a simple white t-shirt. 

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The importance of collaboration in todays workplace is huge and very important, not only in designing but in every other work field. Collaboration is a great way to create new things, collaboration has also become easier with all the use of technology, if it wasn't for technology, it would be hard to collaborate with others in order to create amazing products. Not only can we use ideas from our co workers, but also use ideas from others around the world. This idea of contracting things with the ideas of many has become popular and I would say has also benefitted us in many ways.