Q&A: What are the steps to become a fashion designer?

3 Responses to Q&A: What are the steps to become a fashion designer?

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   ashley23 on August 8, 2011 at 4:14 pm

   Ii dont have the answer to your solution but if you ever need someone to model for you hit me up. I love modeling. ashleyyeboah@yahoo.com

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   Hollywood Forever xoxo on August 8, 2011 at 4:29 pm

   I’m hoping to go into the fashion industry too. Until I started taking fashion classes in school, I thought all you had to do was be able to put together an amazing outfit, and have a great eye for fashion, but I was really wrong. Being a fashion designer is not the glam life of Coco Chanel. When you’re a beginner, you’re mostly designing patterns. Those are the envelopes you see in Wal-Mart or something, with the paper with shapes on them inside so that you can cut out the fabric and make the clothes yourself. If you start to get really good, you can start getting your clothes made and put into stores. That’s where the finance part in your Collage training comes in. So, here is what you need to do: Go to a secondary Fashion Arts school, if there are none where you live, you need to find one that is close, I’m guessing you’re still in High school, so find out the requirements to get into that school, and make sure you have all of them and more so you will be chosen. Then, you go to school, work your hardest and graduate. Take that knowledge and start off either designing patterns people can make themselves, or if you’re really good, open your own business, but you will nee to find a way to start getting your clothes made, I suggest making them yourself or hiring some workers. Then, grab some models, and start to put yourself out there. Soon, stores will start to want to bring your stuff in, and it just gets bigger from there. It sounds easy when it’s just an idea, but it’s A LOT of work. You need to want it really bad. And make sure you don’t fall in the in between zone, where you graduate and end up working management for a store. Because you want to design. Not be a manager. And, there you go I really hope I helped

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   No one special on August 8, 2011 at 5:28 pm

   I’m glad we’re in the same boat. Here’s how I became successful.

   STEP ONE- precollege classes 

   Go take precollege courses from the top design schools. The Fashion Instituite of Technology allow underage teens to attend for summer classes and weekend workshops. There are thousands of courses regarding art, and at least half (maybe more) of these center around fashion design. While commuting there or after classes, you also get to appreciate the street fashion of NY. I’ve been to FITs program and pretty much everyone there LOVES it. There are people all around the world who come to FIT just for their programs. Here’s the link for courses availible for high schoolers:
   http://www.fitnyc.edu/7614.asp

   Another place to go to is Parsons the New School for Design. There programs are only in Paris and New York by the way. They also have precollege programs availible. I’ve never been there but a few friends of mine have and they’ve loved it. Here is the link
   http://www.newschool.edu/parsons/pre-college-academy/
   You being sixteen are also eligible for their summer program which focuses a lot on portfolio work and getting into the design college of your choice. They will defenitely help bring your designs to a level where they can actually be clothes. http://www.newschool.edu/parsons/summer-programs/

   If New York and Paris are too far for you, try RISD or Rhode Island School for Design which is obviously in Rhode Island.
   Here is the link for their programs for teens 12-17 http://www.risd.com/cfm/kids_teens.cfm#YATN
   They also have a six week summer program.
   http://www.risd.com/cfm/precollege.cfm

   STEP TWO- Be Unique

   A friend I met at FIT who modeled for a modeling agency liked my design and sent it to some place. They liked it and actually used my design because it was yeah in style, followed a few trends but was also unique. Keep in mind they see thousands of designs every day similar to the trends so what you send in so for it to be published, it has to be special. You should very much try to go the runway shows, as they set the trends for us. It’s also a good idea to learn all the designer brands by heart. But in the famous words of Coco Chanel (who if you don’t know her you’ve got a lot of studying to do, google her): “In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different”

   STEP THREE-art skills. 

   You don’t have to be a great artist to design clothes, but bad artwork distracts you from the clothes. It also doesn’t help convey the design well. Practice is essential. 

   STEP FOUR- making the clothes.

   You can also go to Wal-Mart and buy their design transfer stuff, where you pretty much design an image on your computer and print it out onto the paper they give you. Then you iron it onto a tee shirt. Congrats! You’ve got your first design!!

   You should also take sewing lessons so you can make clothes other than graphic tee shirts. When you start out, you can’t just hire workers. Not all of us are rich enough for that.

   STEP FIVE-college and stores

   Nowadays to achieve success I’d say go to a design college and save up money to open up your own store. If you don’t want to wait, you can do it online. That’s how Justin Bieber got discovered. Make videos of your designs on YouTube to advertise for a website where you’ll sell your designs. Like  
   http://www.bubzbeauty.com/bubbi/shop/

   GOOD LUCK

       

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