The transcript of "Fashion and Quality" from New York City with Nicole Miller and Bud Konheim at Nicole Miller Fashion House as seen on Small Business School the series on PBS-member stations in the USA and the Voice of America around the world. The best little show on television about the American spirit.

The transcript for this episode

last update: September 2006

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There making it here in old New York

You have to have an intuition and a deep knowledge of your costs, competition, and the direction of the market.

A city harboring some of the best in the world

No Place Like Home

HATTIE: According to the fashion center website, New York City's garment district is comprised of 34 million square feet extending from Fifth to Ninth avenues and from 35th to 41st streets.

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Transcript Segment #4

1.	Sell Happiness
2.	Pricing is Art
3.	Feed and Trust Your Instincts
4.	There is No Place Like Home
5.	Create a Win-Win
6.	You Can Stumble into Millions
7.	Staying Small is a Strong Position
8.	There's Power in Partnerships
9.	Multiple Sales Channels Work
10.	Internship Programs Work
11.	Make Organization Charts circular
12.	It Never Gets Easy

Over 100,000 people work in the garment district and the Nicole Miller company is proud to say – their clothing is made, from an idea to finished product – in New York City.

BUD: Is this where we are going?

HATTIE: Production manager Kimberly Lee and Bud walk a few blocks to Styletrend where their creations are in mass production.

HATTIE: Kimberly speaks Cantonese and English. She is the right person at the right time for Nicole Miller. Over the years, sewing shops have been owned by immigrants and today many are owned by the newest wave from China. Special orders are priced right and shipped more quickly than if the sewing was done offshore. Bud and Nicole are committed to keeping the sewing jobs in New York City.

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