In business for more than 10 years, Fashion Matters began in a (really) small office above The Block Arcade in Collins Street, Melbourne in 1996. 10 years on and we have sold more than 400 licenses of Fashion Design Software through our Australian office in Melbourne and reseller office in New Zealand (Identity Solutions, Auckland).

Selling to both the general Clothing and Textile Industries as well as Educational Institutions, we pride ourselves as being one of the most trustworthy and reliable software Sales and Support Companies in this Industry.

Fashion Matters is staffed by Özlem Ruiz and Mitchell Dobelsky as well as commissioned salespeople and contract trainers in Melbourne and Sydney. Both trained in the hard and fast New York Marketplace, working in the main Colour Matters office for (Özlem) 5 years and (Mitchell) 2 years. The experiences in New York helped develop wide ranging technical skills in very different Company environments.

As the company has grown we have introduced innovations like our half-yearly Users Group Meetings. We’ve done these to encourage people from the industry to mingle and discuss the industry as well as up coming features in our software. Also, it’s a chance to talk to designers and find out what features they would find useful to add to the software. In this way they help develop the software and we understand their requirements better. Without the input of the designers our software wouldn’t be where it is today!

Some of our current customers include Simon de Winter, Jeans West, Voyager, Designworks, Auspac, Bellview, Timeframe, S&R Fashions, Anthea Crawford, Laura Ashley, Rodd & Gunn, DrizaBone, AAA Fabrics, Best Corporation, Clever Clothing, Collections Design, A.D.A.

Our main Product range includes the following: Fashion Toolbox; CM Studio; CM32 Professional and DesignSpecs Workbook.