Omg if I look at your leotard collection without seeing this video I won’t even notice that you’ve gone through all of this

@ClaudiaDeanWorld

3 жыл бұрын

I know right.. so crazy! I plan on sharing many more raw moments with you all! They are hard to film but it’s important you all see it❤️

@bonaflash4116

3 жыл бұрын

@@ClaudiaDeanWorld well if these things never happened maybe you would not be where you are now?

When producing, never ever rely on approved samples. You have to stand on the factory producing line, all day, from first to last item. Keep controlling any single stages.

Ok here is a tip for people if your getting clothing manufactured. Send two sealed samples to the factory along with your tech pack. One they will open to use as a reference for the production. The other will stay sealed as a reference for if/when the finished run doesn't meet specs.

This is goldddd! The first story is shocking 😳 but it was worth it because now you have a amazing brand and amazing merch! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

the two dislikes are from the people "making" the leotards. they messed up so bad i just can not believe that behind all of this were professionals and not 7 year old kids

I’m a small dance wear brand owner and I LOVE this video! I’ve made so many mistakes and I’m honest about it 😂🙈 so good to show that not everything goes well! You literally could not tell looking at your leotards now!

i'm so sorry to hear your mum passed away! you are my motivation at the moment, much love

Everyone makes mistakes, Claudia, but you are still the most amazing person on earth, your humour, and passion for dance!🥰

Everybody Makes Mistakes and that’s what makes us better and stronger xx You are incredible ❤️

The improvements you've made are insane! look at the distance you've come its amazing :O

It sounds as if the big company that recommended that incompetent manufacturer did so on purpose in order to sabotage you. They didn’t want the competition. You get the last laugh though, because you have designed beautiful, better, unique dance wear that I am sure sells out the moment it arrives at your studio.

@NatashaEstrada

3 жыл бұрын

I don't think so necessarily. I think what you need to remember is that the big company probably does their own product development in-house which includes pattern making and fit testing. Also, remember the larger company will have a library of pattern blocks they will have developed over many years. The manufacturer cannot use those to make your patterns because that is the IP of the large company. It is very likely the manufacturer that was recommended has nothing to do with developing the larger companies' patterns. I've been working in the garment industry for 20+ years and I can tell you the better way to do with is to hire a pattern and sample maker separately. Get your first samples done and THEN go to the manufacturer after you have your tech packs ready. You probably spent a lot of time and money also not knowing the process, lingo, and how garments are developed.

@NatashaEstrada

3 жыл бұрын

Also I will add that pattern development for stretch fabrics is a little different. If you need 1cm more coverage and you tell them to add 1cm more fabric then it'll end up being 2x more coverage than you need because of the stretch factor.

@sopranosd

3 жыл бұрын

@@NatashaEstrada Excellent advice. I don't know anything about manufacturing so I was rather mouthing off. :)

@Ailieorz

3 жыл бұрын

@@NatashaEstrada that may be true but that doesn't excuse doing the opposite of what the change request says. Also, if they've made similar products there's absolutely no reason why some of those mistakes should have happened

These sort of videos are so interesting! Thanks for being so honest with us 💗 looking forward to part 2!

I like your body language and super cheerful voice. Your resilience gives me power to move forward. Thank you for sharing.

I’m not in the dance world at all but your channel popped up a few weeks ago and I just kept watching 😂 Your grace and class combined with your humor are so refreshing. Much love 💕💕

Your resilience is absolutely inspiring!❤🩰🤗

This is so educational, I love this kind of content! ♥️

As a dancer turned business owner, this video is SO helpful, Claudia! You're such an inspiration!

omg I would lose my mind if the stories with the leo's happened to me, you're very strong Claudia

What a series of nightmares! You’re one determined lady, Claudia xxxxxxxxx

i kept waiting for this video. I love videos like this Claudia!

Well done for getting through that, your right these things make you stronger and resilient too. I enjoy these story times and I’ve also loved watching how much your platform has grown. I always recommend your channel to my ballet students 💕 🩰 💕 XXX

Thank you so much for all of this! A true inspiration

The very first collection still remains the absolute best quality Leo's of all of your subsequent collections.

Just wanted to point out I LOL-ed at the peach at 3:54 because you said "but". Whoever's edited your video has a great sense of humour! And of course, I loved watching this video as well as your ADVICE WITH CLAUDIA one - I've watched it another time since last night to help me keep my mind on-track/train my neural pathway into the same mindset as yours so i dont fall off the face of the Earth, again. Hard times! You're amazing, Claudia!

this was FASCINATING thank you SO MUCH for sharing all your wisdom

This was fascinating & honestly a bit relieving....makes me feel that even those on the absolute top 🔝 can make mistakes. 🙏 (and indeed the ‘business world’ is riddled with problems ) but you’ve never settled and I adore you for it. 👱🏻‍♀️+🤔💭=💫🩱✨👍 You ARE so resilient & SUPER strong 💖💪 I have all the respect and admiration for you! Keep on, keeping on Claudia! 👏 Certainly your dear mother is absolutely looking over you; smiling, so proud of all of the triumphs and moments in which you had to stay strong and see things through- seeing what a strong-willed lady she raised. 🙏✨ Keep strong and I 100% agree with, support, and admire your taking legal action. Good on you for not backing down. Best decision. Smart lady, beautiful soul, effervescent spirit! 🥰 We love you Claudia! ❣️

I've never been this early!! lol I can't wait to watch it! I love your videos Claudia !!!!

@ClaudiaDeanWorld

3 жыл бұрын

LOVE U!!!!

I think it is awesome that your site got so many hits that it crashed. Go big! Dream Bigger! You truly are amazing!

I remember that day. Server went down. I had to take a job in IT because of the pandemic and I realised what happened immediately. 😅 IT had really some hard times during the pandemic your website wasn't the only one that crashed. 🙈 so sorry that happened, but we all do mistakes and I am sure the IT behind it will never forget this and learned this for life. 💛😊

Such a great sharing! I love it! Hope we can hear more about your experiences in your life but not limited to business stuff. Thanks for sharing.

Such a interesting video !! I always love how you share negatives and positives

Yes I love these business building videos. Very informative

You are a smart business woman to be so personally involved with the product and quality control ALL the items on your own time. Imagine if Jaclyn Hill had given half the time to her hairy lipsticks 🤣

Love this! Testimont to your resilient amazing self.. you definitely are being rewarded for your massive dedication. 🥰🥰🥰

@ClaudiaDeanWorld

3 жыл бұрын

You are amazing! 😍😍😍

I think you are a great example, thanks for your honesty !🙌🏻

Your reactions are so autentic. I really have fun waching these videos.

I have empathy for you. I’m also a small business owner and I too have made mistakes. However, we learn from them and move on.

Wow I can’t believe that company would do that😱

LOL! I’m totally one of the thousands that crashed your site! Sorry! 🤦🏼‍♀️ I remember that live so clearly! Your outfit and everything. 🤣 I was so excited and dming like ohh this website isn’t working. Telling my friends about it too. 😱 Learning curves. I do believe it’s very important to surround yourself with people you respect and that there are the types of people who would be toxic and sabotage. You are an inspiration. I love these story time videos. I’ve seen some of your videos regarding your company experiences, and I’m actually dealing with some of those same issues. Your videos help me try to turn things to the positive side and take action to improve myself and persevere vs give up, get depressed, and bitter. Thank you!

This is such a cool video to watch 😁💗

Thanks very much for sharing this!!

i love these storytimes!! can u do more??

Omg I have been waiting all day for this vid

@jessicaeglington2194

3 жыл бұрын

Same!,

@urfavblone7818

3 жыл бұрын

I have been to

Hi! Not a dancer but love ur videos. Sending continued well wishes 2 u and ur family xoxoxo

You may have had business learning issues but your engagement ring is flawless. He's a keeper!!

I love how you title this "My mistakes..." when really, Claudia, it was unforeseen and not your fault. But that is the lesson, isn't it? Learn from it and do better-- just like dancing!! Congratulations to you for all your accomplishments. XOXO, Sarah

God, its so damn hard to find professionals... I love, that you worked so hard to reach your goals! But that 1. company is just ...

I loved this video you should do a part 2!!!

i think we can all see how your hard work paid off! :))

I've worked in the garment industry for about 20 years specifically in lingerie. It will shock you but an underwire bra might take 2 years to fully prototype, test fit, sample, and grade to get it ready for production.

could you do a tour of your personal leotard/dance wear collection that you wear?

I'm so happy because our new studio leotard is any of your leotard designs in the cloud cupcake

Thank you for sharing these stories.

Audience from Taipei Taiwan and it’s 5am right now After watching this video I think there’s purpose why I couldn’t sleep well tonight😂

You gave me summer feelings with your short top until i saw it was raining in your Video 😅🤣

Things don't happen to you. They happen FOR you.

love you so much!

@ClaudiaDeanWorld

3 жыл бұрын

Love you!!!!!

I love this!!

Lol I kept checking your story to see when u would post it

Sometime, you understand that when it comes to textile, better to use Asia, Portugal or Morocco which on top, samples cost a fraction of the price

could you do some more audition tips? I'm auditioning for my dream full-time ballet school this fall/winter so I want to be prepared. maybe a list of steps you think are essential to know?

@Jairdan

3 жыл бұрын

Goldie Jane has some videos about that... You find her here under "lazy ballerina club" ... She even talks about rejection

@viv2607

3 жыл бұрын

@@Jairdan thanks!

thank you for sharing your story. In the beginning it is better to go to a local tailor to create a prototype.

you are so strong girl

Omg I’m software engineer and this scalability issue should have been considered in the design! So sorry you had to go through that.

Please make more of the story/conversational videos! I love to listen to them while I do my hair for dance class :)

Ahh I remember being on that live

Let’s not forget the part of story 1 where said dancewear company then released leotards practically identical to yours whoopssss 😬😂🙊 #weseeyou #copycats Lovedddd this video Clauds! 💖💖💖

@DestinyHopeLou

3 жыл бұрын

What is the brand? 👀

Backgrounding your suppliers is definitely a hard lesson learnt. If they can't get it right after two tries then you find someone else. I just had to do this with a web developer, they produced two terrible designs which didn't meet our brief so we got someone else to do it. Finding out how hard you can push back on contracts like this is one of the best lessons you can learn, I would have cut this manufacturer out long ago, they sound terrible to work with

Informative and fun post! Also, this video was really interesting to me because I am an artist and I personally have reached out to one or two smaller dance wear companies via Instagram about artist collaborations. One was very reseptive of my work, but not in a position to collaborate at the time. I feel like connecting with an established company, big or small, is the way to get my foot in the door. What would you suggest base on your experience??...Go it alone or keep trying to connect with a company? Love from your older, former dancer, fanbase!😄♥️👍🏻

@BalletNews

3 жыл бұрын

Kristin, what sort of work do you do ? Interested to learn more!

@kristiLB93

3 жыл бұрын

@@BalletNews Portrait and figure work. Ballet has always been a big part of my inspiration. You can see some of what I do on Instagram - @kristinbecksart and some older work on @kristinbecks

Wow that is soo sad that reminds me of my school teacher she also doesn’t ever get what I mean

I love your voice🤣💖

Very interesting.

Any chance of getting Tights or Shirts for male dancers?! I want to support you but I’m a male dancer 💙

Claudia❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😄

What happened to all the incorrectly made leotards?

@geris4611

3 жыл бұрын

I wonder that too

This was such an interesting video idea! I had never spent time to think about the journey you take before releasing your video promoting your various products (leotards, dance bags, etc). I really enjoyed being able to take a peek behind the scenes. Though, it would have been interesting to hear more about the mistakes you personally made in business; a lot of the stories seemed more centered around ways others have tried to get over on you in business (and something that was outside of your control). Maybe, if you choose to do this again and aren't too uncomfortable with the idea, you can share the mistakes made by you that led to issues. Maybe looking at pre-held assumptions you had and how that led to some conflict or an industry standard you weren't aware of causing an issue on your end, or...I'm not sure, whatever really! Again, thank you for this video and taking time out to share with us. I definitely like these storytime-like videos (ballet-related or business-related)!

Mentioning the financial losses, OMG 😱.

@ClaudiaDeanWorld

3 жыл бұрын

I like to keep it real!

Always be aware that your web connection capacity should at least cover a minimum of equivalent 10% of your total number of followers.

I wonder if they outsourced it to another country with cheap labor, because if they did , most of the products will turn like crap.

I have been a subscriber for 3 years

@ClaudiaDeanWorld

3 жыл бұрын

YOU THE BEST!!!

@urfavblone7818

3 жыл бұрын

@@ClaudiaDeanWorld ty

@felicitylittler

3 жыл бұрын

Same!!

Is the classes at home free ? 😘💕

Claudia, with you saying that it cost a lot of money for each change on the leotards, I think they maybe abused of your naiveness to make you spend more money.

Was the brand bloch

I think the website crashed again.

Where oh where do I begin with this!!!!!!! 1. COMPANY 1 WHAT THE FRICK!!!!!!!!!!!! I definitely see pure jealousy out of them that you were successful and so they were intentionally trying to slow you down by making so many mistakes and honestly I'm hoping they went to court so they had to admit it to everyone so people knew the reality COMPANY 2 OML if they knew they had messed up they should have stopped as soon as they realised with garment 1 and told you what had happened and tried to fix it with you not just batch produce THOUSANDS of wrong leotards If your ever able to tell us the story I think so many of us would be interested although we understand you can't say too much info as it's still an issue and to do with the legal side of it all Claudia dean live 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 oh my days I remember that live well I was one of the few who got on but we legit crashed the site so hard because thousands of us tried to get on within seconds 🤣 that was funny when he was saying cut the live tho I will NEVER forget that live class 🤣🤣 Oh the stress you guys have been under in the last 12 months honestly you could all do with a break somewhere nice The way you refer to it as "when covid happened" "during thr lockdown" SOME OF US ARE STILL IN COVID LOCKDOWN IT'S STILL HERE 🤣😭😭🤣😭😭🤣

You look like a a max 👌🌈❤️

Nice, you talk about a lot of tough topics in the video production space! We enjoy what you talk about, keep it up. Anytime you are in Phoenix reach out. If you want, direct message us @dmakproductions on IG and we can chat. We love what you do!

Should she have contacted local seamstresses and made leos on her students and had the manufacturer simply reproduce the finished product?

Sounds like the manufacturer was trying to make a kick buck by requiring so many alterations. Clearly they have a good rep. There’s no way they’re that crap 😅

Leotards are hard☹️

Example 1:sounds like you were doing all their work for them! Or just trying to deliberately p*#s you off.

Omg were they trying to make money off you by making “mistakes” that’s so strange!! What the hell 15 👀

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