ADA Collection

5 Date-Night Outfits Ideas to Get Inspired

Whether you’re styling your customer for a date night with husband, or for a “first time” date, or for a girl friend get-together, as a stylist, you want her to look and feel her best, right? We wanted to share with you date-night outfit inspiration from these stunning women. From a romantic shimmer dress, to a classic black jumpsuit, to flirty ruffled versions to off-the-shoulders tops – all…

When we refer to ADA belts as ageless… We are talking about how women of all ages can wear ADA belts and look fabulous.  Take a peek how gorgeous and elegant women of all ages are styling ADA belts. (more…)

Finding the perfect dress for any occasion can be a difficult task for many women.  However, if she knows her body shape, she’s more than half way there.  But here’s the problem, only 10% women can accurately identify her body shape.  And 63% women want more help from retailers to help her choose apparel that is more flattering. Here’s the deal – you’re most likely in the 10%… you work in fashion…

8 Empowering Ways to Stop Feeling Guilty

Article content by Melanie Greenberg Ph.D.  Postpartum I’ve experienced a great amount of guilt.  I’m trying to juggle baby, my two toddler daughters and a business.  At the end of the day I just feel bad and guilty for not doing enough.  I came across some great tips and tools by Dr. Melanie Greenberg, Ph.D. that I can practice to change this pattern of guilt I’m feeling.  Here is what she…

Fall 2017 – Inspiration

Every February and September following the runway shows in New York and in Europe my design team and I sit down to review major trends that will be taking place for the year ahead.  Not because we’re a trendy belt line but because we need to know what “canvas” or clothing we’ll be designing belts to pair with. Will women be wearing more boxy silhouettes, tailored apparel, pantsuits, etc. (more…)

Essentials for Her Closet

Do your customers find themselves buying clothes a bit haphazardly? Only to find they have nothing to wear with that blouse, skirt or shoes they recently purchased from you? (more…)

What’s Your Story?

The first few days of our vacation we spent in Newport Beach.  One afternoon my husband took the kids to Disneyland and I had the entire day to myself. I went to Fashion Island, a beautiful outside shopping mall,  to browse.  I walked into about 15 stores – mainly chain stores, but some independently owned boutiques and… No greeting. No interaction. No effort to engage from the associates. In the…

12 Best Practices of Retailers

Online retailers can’t create the same emotional experience the way brick-and-mortar retailers can.  A customer simply cannot experience the serendipitous moments that she can when she’s working with a stylist face-to-face.  Think about it:  Can you touch the fabric of a dress online?  Can you try on that dress and get a stylist’s honest opinion of how it looks on you, and how your well-fitting…

6 Game-Changing Styling Tips for Plus Size/Curvy Women

The American fashion industry is a fabulous place where you find the most exotics pieces to easily style women of different shapes and sizes, except curvy/plus size women. In accordance with Tim Gunn – design educator, author and Emmy-winning co-host of “Project Runway” – “The average American woman now wears between a size 16 and 18, according to new research from Washington State University.…

5 Super Useful Styling Tips for Petite Women 5’4 and Under

My best friend is petite and she was having a hard time dressing for her body frame. So, after she reviewed the Determine Your Body Shape Guide she asked me… “I know I’m an apple shape but how do I make belts work for my short torso.”  If she had this question, I thought others would too and if you’re styling women with a petite body frame, here are 5 Useful Styling Tips to consider when styling…

How to style customers who “think” they can’t be styled?

Welcome to the ADA Styling Workshop…whether you’ve carried the ADA belt line for years and you’re comfortable with styling your customers with belts or you’re still not quite comfortable with using belts as a styling tool, this is the place to train your staff and learn new tips to elevate your customers styling experience and outfit, add color to merchandising and to increase your sales by…

Customer Changing Preferences: According to 2017 Retail Trends

My husband’s close college friend, Linda, has been traveling solo around the world, and, lucky for us, one of her stops was San Francisco.  Linda stayed with us for three nights. Linda is a tall, blonde Swedish beauty who was an exchange student at the University of Buenos Aires, where she became good friends with Gaston.  She has now been backpacking for the last nine months and has four more…

Dressing for your Body Type: Determining Your Body Shape

Have you ever caught yourself looking at one of your friends and thinking, “She is so stylish and why can’t I pull off her look!?” You blame it on your weight, lack of time, money or your personal fashion taste. Well truth time!  Becoming your most stylish self doesn’t have to be so hard.   Your friend knows how to dress for her body shape and she chooses pieces that flatter HER unique shape. If…

How a Twist of Fate Turned Into ADA Collection

ADA Collection’s Founder and leader, Ada Komorniczak’s path was not a straight line, far from it. In fact, her road to becoming a fashion entrepreneur and style maker came with a fair amount of twists, turns and a side of serious wanderlust. Fueled by passion, love and a long lineage of maternal fashionistas, Ada embraced accessory design as her life’s passion and purpose. Here at Brandettes, we…