C5 Aftermath
Ooops! Was supposed to blog 15 minutes later but now it’s a few hours later. It’s amazing how little sleep I’m actually surviving on. I’ve been pushing myself to the limit but thankfully it’s paid off because we managed to launch today so if people make payment quickly I can get the items mailed out on Thursday or Friday :)
Anyway, it’s only been a few hours and the response for the self-manufactured pieces has been quite good so far. Thanks so much girls! I personally really like the self-manufactured pieces in this collection. The workmanship, colours and materials are awesome. Okay but on to colours….
Let me tell you all about the manufactured stocks for this batch.
The stocks were supposed to arrive some time between 20-27 Jan so it’d give us ample time to count the stocks and check each and every piece at a humanly pace. Then later on in January, our supplier said that the stocks might come in a little late but will definitely be in by end of Jan. So we booked the photostudio for 2 Feb because we didn’t want to push it too late because we need time to clear payments and mail out the pieces before CNY.
Okay so on 31 Jan, the stocks still hadn’t arrive. Then came 1 Feb. Our supplier didn’t know whether the stocks had arrived in Singapore till about 3-4pm and even then, she couldn’t confirm with us if it was ours that had arrived. So she only managed to check them at about 6-7pm and you have no idea how relieved I was when I saw the message that it was our stocks. Omg.
So I got the stocks at 10+pm and then when I saw the stocks, I got a shock. I didn’t really see them clearly because they were in bags but I saw Grey chiffon. And that startled me. We didn’t order anything in Grey! Yes, the Ruffle Chiffon Top and the Elie Saab Dress were supposed to come in Nude instead of Grey. It was a really pretty Nude and it would’ve looked really pretty. Our sample actually came in Nude and we were so happy with it so we were really disappointed that the bulk came in Grey. That being said, it’s still pretty! It’s just that we really loved the Nude. Okay shall stop gushing about the Nude.
Well I guess it’s not really our supplier’s fault either because China’s sort of just like that. You never get 100% what you ask for and because of the whole Chinese New Year break for them, they were rushing many orders so I guess that explains the problems we faced this time round. We had a few other issues as well but on the whole, I’m pleased with the way things turned out I guess because it could’ve been MUCH worse and we could’ve been stuck with absolutely nothing to sell like the Shortalls incident.
So since the stocks came so late last night and the photoshoot was today at 10am, I had to stay up for 6h to check the stocks and count the stocks and pack the stocks and… You get the gist. It seemed like forever! Seriously wish Shisi was back to do them with me. So then I got to sleep at about 4.30am then I had to wake up at 8.30am to get ready for the photoshoot.
After the shoot, I went for lunch with Cindy (who came along for the shoot and helped me so much, thank you thank you!!) and then got back home at about 2.30pm and started editing photos non-stop. Oh and before I started editing pics, I had to take photos of the “true colours”. And because I didn’t want to go through each picture to see if the studio lightings got the right colour, I just took “true colour” pictures for all the pieces which took me about an hour.
So it’s been about 24h of non-stop working on Cocoquettes with only 4h of sleep.
Now it’s Shisi’s time to invoice, clear payments and tally the stocks… etc! My turn to rest.
Anyway all this is just to say, we’ve really put lots of hard work into this collection and so has our supplier so I hope you girls love it lots and we’ll definitely try to improve/keep this up and bring in more manufactured pieces in the future!
Better go catch up on some sleep :(
Priscilla
