Kerri BridgmanIf you’re a designer, you know the overlap is real.
You’re finalizing fits and fabrics for next season, tracking shipments for the one currently in production, collecting wholesale orders for the next delivery window—and somehow also trying to keep your brand alive on social media.
It’s a lot.
And if you’re doing it mostly on your own, it can start to feel impossible to keep up.
Step 1: Pause the panic and name what season you’re actually in
The quickest way to ease overwhelm is to stop lumping everything together.
There’s design season, production season, and delivery season—and even though they overlap, your focus for each one should be different.
Take five minutes and write down:
- What needs your creative energy right now (new collection sketches, fittings, fabric sourcing)
- What needs your managerial energy (tracking POs, vendor follow-ups, QC)
- What needs your marketing energy (photoshoots, lookbooks, launches, content)
Seeing it separated helps you see what’s really urgent, and what’s just noise.
Step 2: Anchor your week around the right energy
If Monday is design-heavy, don’t also try to finalize invoices or schedule content.
Match the type of work to the type of energy you have that day.
Your creative brain and your production brain are not meant to run at the same time.
Batch your workflow:
- Mondays → Creative (design & development)
- Tuesdays → Production follow-up
- Wednesdays → Sales & shipping
- Thursdays → Content planning
- Fridays → Catch-up and prep
Step 3: Build your own command center
Every fashion business needs a home base—somewhere you can see every season, every product, every order, and every post in one glance.
When everything’s scattered across emails, notes, and spreadsheets, overwhelm isn’t a mindset issue—it’s a systems issue.
That’s why I made the Fashion Business SOS Kit.
It’s a free Notion template that brings everything you’re juggling into one clear, visual system.
If your production process feels like a million sticky notes and scattered spreadsheets… this is for you.
I made this Notion kit to help fashion founders and ops teams organize the backend—without losing the creative flow. Whether you’re launching your first line or juggling wholesale orders, this gives you a clear, visual system that keeps it all moving.
What’s inside:
🧵 Product development tracker
🧵 Vendor directory
🧵 Order tracking sheet
🧵 Sales channel planner
🧵 Content calendar that ties it all together
All built in Notion, ready to plug in your own visions.
👉 Download the Fashion Business SOS Kit for free and give your next season the structure it deserves.