TIGHTS DESIGNER
Before a new design becomes a real product, there is actually quite a lot more to it than just designing the pattern. Normally this doesn’t matter at all to the people buying the tights, but maybe there are some people who are interested of these details. Often months pass...
I’ve been designing tights since 2013, and over the years I’ve created somewhere between 400 and 500 different designs. Many of them are still available as made to order pieces through the Virivee tights webshop or in my Etsy shop. My tights are handmade using a variety of...
THIS IS AN ARCHIVE POST FROM 2016 We suddenly got the opportunity to take part in Milan Design Week 2016 in Italy as exhibitors with PaperSpokes. This was a pretty big deal for us, because taking part in an event like this is very expensive. Being invited and getting to...
THIS IS AN ARCHIVE POST FROM 2016 Between March 18 and 20 2016 we took part in Berliner Fahrradschau in Berlin with PaperSpokes. It was one of the main events of Berlin Bicycle Week, and most of the big cycling brands were represented there. We had applied for the exhibition...
THIS IS AN ARCHIVE POST FROM 2016 We’ve been taking Virivee to more and more markets in Vienna lately. The market we did last November went extremely well, so we spent the first weekend of March at another design market in Vienna, Austria. As an independent tights designer and...
THIS IS AN ARCHIVE POST FROM 2016 When you run a small online business and sell internationally, shipping can become surprisingly complicated. A few months ago I wrote about shipping orders internationally with the regular postal service. This time I want to talk about the other...
THIS IS AN ARCHIVE POST FROM 2015 A few months ago I wrote a short list on Medium about the advice I would give to female entrepreneurs who are just starting out. I thought it would be worth putting it on my own blog too. I had already been an entrepreneur for around 15 years,...
THIS IS AN ARCHIVE POST FROM 2015 It had happened to me several times before that I found something online that I really wanted to buy, only to discover at checkout that the US webshop didn’t ship internationally. At that point you can either give up on the purchase, or if you...
THIS IS AN ARCHIVE POST FROM 2015 “What do you use for international shipping?” This is one of the questions I get most often from entrepreneurs who are just starting to sell internationally. If you decide to sell B2C, directly to customers, sooner or later you have to deal with...
THIS IS AN ARCHIVE POST FROM 2015 Now that Indiegogo has changed the fee for both fixed and flexible funding campaigns to 5%, making it the same as Kickstarter’s fee, it’s worth taking another look at when it makes sense to choose one version over the other. First of all, it’s...
I’ve always been an entrepreneur, working across graphic design, retail, and creative businesses. For the past 12 years I’ve been designing tights and building Virivee.
