ANS fashions
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ANS Fashions is a Bespoke
Tailoring company based in Kowloon, Hong Kong. They have adopted an international business model
with representatives traveling internationally to take orders which are then manufactured in Hong Kong. This model is similar to the one adopted by competitor Raja Fashions in the late 1990s when the large ex-patriot community of Hong Kong shrank in the lead up to the Chinese hand over.
Clothiers such as Holland & Sherry.
. One of the key advantages of accessing global markets is bypassing local competition and selling to those markets where demand is high but supply is low. This is something which ANS Fashions has found in New Zealand which has seen increasing customers each visit.
Representatives of ANS Fashions travel in a circuit around major cities of the world. They travel with style guides and fabric swatches
to create a type of mobile store front. Once an order is placed with a representative, the details are emailed to a Hong Kong workshop which fills the order and ships it back to the customer via registered post or courier.
. The traveling tailor model allows local tailors to take measurements and provide physical access to fabric swatches while still taking advantage of lower labour costs at other stages of the production process. There may not be a net reduction in costs though due to the necessity to account for the transport and accommodation costs of the traveling tailor. Some Tailors have used their own variation of the Traveling Tailor model in which they have many representatives permanently located in other specific locals acting as resellers.
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Tailoring company based in Kowloon, Hong Kong. They have adopted an international business model
International Business
International business is a term used to collectively describe all commercial transactions that take place between two or more regions, countries and nations beyond their political boundary...
with representatives traveling internationally to take orders which are then manufactured in Hong Kong. This model is similar to the one adopted by competitor Raja Fashions in the late 1990s when the large ex-patriot community of Hong Kong shrank in the lead up to the Chinese hand over.
Fabrics
According to their website ANS Fashions have access to the fabrics of well known fashion houses such as Zegna and Savile RowSavile Row
Savile Row is a shopping street in Mayfair, central London, famous for its traditional men's bespoke tailoring. The term "bespoke" is understood to have originated in Savile Row when cloth for a suit was said to "be spoken for" by individual customers...
Clothiers such as Holland & Sherry.
Traveling Tailor
The traveling tailor model, employed by ANS Fashions, attempts to leverage the existing Tailoring infrastructure of Hong Kong while selling to larger world markets. In many ways this is an extension of the new bespoke movementNew bespoke movement
The New bespoke movement is a term describing a modern development within British bespoke tailoring. Originating in the early 1990s, those tailors associated with the movement were attempting to revitalise the traditional styling of Savile Row.-History:...
. One of the key advantages of accessing global markets is bypassing local competition and selling to those markets where demand is high but supply is low. This is something which ANS Fashions has found in New Zealand which has seen increasing customers each visit.
Representatives of ANS Fashions travel in a circuit around major cities of the world. They travel with style guides and fabric swatches
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to create a type of mobile store front. Once an order is placed with a representative, the details are emailed to a Hong Kong workshop which fills the order and ships it back to the customer via registered post or courier.
Traveling Tailor model as compared with other Types of Tailoring
The traveling tailor model can be said to be an attempt to combine the best elements of Distance Tailoring and Local Tailoring. Local tailoring has the advantage that clients are able to meet with a tailor personally. This ensures professional measurements can be taken and that tailors are aware of the unique modifications which can be made to better fit the garment to the client. Distance tailoring takes advantage of lower labor costs at the expense of professional measurements and a requirement to choose fabrics from photos rather than swatchesSwatch (disambiguation)
Swatch is Swatch Group's namesake brand of watches.Swatch may also refer to:*The Swatch Group, a Swiss company and watch manufacturer*Swatch Internet Time, an alternate means of telling time that uses decimals instead of hours and minutes...
. The traveling tailor model allows local tailors to take measurements and provide physical access to fabric swatches while still taking advantage of lower labour costs at other stages of the production process. There may not be a net reduction in costs though due to the necessity to account for the transport and accommodation costs of the traveling tailor. Some Tailors have used their own variation of the Traveling Tailor model in which they have many representatives permanently located in other specific locals acting as resellers.
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