Get a competitive edge in your Fashion Business

From design & concept to production & retail, build your fashion brand with solid key fundamentals. We deliver purpose driven solutions towards building a successful fashion business. If you are ready to invest in growing your business get started now with a discovery call .

Fashion BUSINESS Expertise

We deliver purpose driven solutions towards building a successful fashion business.

BUSINESS Consultancy

Owning a Fashion business can sometimes feel like being alone on an island with very few people to talk to.There are times when you need advice and support or an objective opinion. We understand the stresses and unrelenting challenges of the fashion business and are ready to help you to reach your potential.

Buying & Merchandising

Fashion buyers today are expected to be experts in sales analysis, future trends, customer knowledge, negotiating and planning. We support our clients with the skills they need to improve their product mix and range planning processes to increase sales and maximise gross margins.

Creative services

Trend forecasting, Market Research, Range and Product building are some of the services we can support you with.

Working with The Design Directive, our team will help you to meet to your deadlines and achieve your business goals.

ARE YOU READY TO TAKE YOUR FASHION BUYING EXPERTISE TO THE NEXT LEVEL ?

This is a 12 week self-paced online course sharing all the industry knowledge and teaching you the skills you need to succeed in Fashion Buying & Product Development

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TESTIMONIALS

Apart from the sharp strategic information and analysis, our workflow was very productive and well designed. We understood we were working with a very responsible and careful partner in Elisabeth that respected all of our deadlines and managed to put together a great work in a challenging schedule.

We have been associated with Elisabeth since 2016 and it has been a wonderful journey. She helped us in detailing and flow of buying which reflected is better collections and fruitful outcome for our business. Her experience in product and merchandising is immaculate and she has been a perfect value addition to our business.

We have a well-established Childrenswear garment business and I approached Elisabeth at The Design Directive looking for design support to develop and grow our business. Her experience, background and comprehensive skills in fashion buying and design really helped us to develop new customers successfully. She understood the needs of our clients and prepared new seasonal trend boards, designs and graphics for our presentations which resulted in achieving new business for us .Based on our experience & cooperation we feel that Elisabeth is an experienced, trustworthy, honest, open, responsible and reliable partner.

Elisabeth is very talented, expertise and fully comitted to deliver exceptional results. She has lots of knowledge in Merchandise Planning, Buying and Retailing on fashion apparels. It was fantastic working with her and I was able develop my skills and gained lots of global experinece in fashion and retailing. Thanks Elisabeth for being my mentor. You are really a great leader.

Elisabeth helped us in making a well-planned merchandise mix with detailed range plan as per retail practicality and space. She helped us to envision a well thought design process using logical designing, buying and retail planning. She helped us incorporate new trends and ideas enhancing the freshness in the stores. Also helped in simplifying the chain of processes leading to shorter time lags from design to delivery.