It seems like it was just yesterday that we got back from our amazing trip to the Hong Kong Fashion Week. Can it really be almost two months?!? Now it's time for Sydney's Closet Fashion Team to head back to China again to work on the Fall 2014 and Spring 2015 Collections. When we leave St. Louis on the first leg of our 8,500-mile journey it's so cold ice covers the early morning windshields. When we land in L.A. it's warm enough to wear sandals! Don't you just love flying Southwest Airlines with their oh-so generous luggage allowance of two bags that fly free?!? It works out perfectly for our design trips when we tend not to travel too light. We each check one bag packed with enough clothes for us to wear and another suitcase with samples, fabric swatches and sketch books. Our favorite trick: put a small mountain of special occasion sample dresses into a pile. Carefully cram the pile into a storage bag designed to save space in your closet. (We use the jumbo quilt and pillow size for this trip!). Take a vacuum hose and suck out of the edxtra air. Viola! That mountain of dresses is now a hill and so much easier to pack.
