Tips on How to Become a Fashion Designer

Tips
•    Wear your own fashions as much as possible. What better way to promote your clothing than to wear it? When people ask questions about it, be ready to explain everything in short, pithy ways that excite the listener.
•    Be able to take insults. Nobody is perfect. Take advice from friends and family. Never give up, you can't quit your passion!
•    If you're thinking of showing people your fashion drawings, think how you would look in your fashion drawings.
•    It helps to be creative with your designs by adding color.
•    Develop a good logo if running your own fashion label. It will define your style from the outset and so it needs to be good from the outset. It is worth getting a professional graphic designer on the job if you're no good at this yourself.
•    Learn early on how to pack a decent lunch and snacks. Hours can be very long in fashion design and sometimes leaving your creativity zone may be impossible. Your brain needs good nutrition though, so by remembering to pack healthy lunches and snacks, you can grab something to sustain all that hard intellectual slog and physical running around without starving yourself silly.
•    If you start your own fashion label, you need sound advice on everything from the beginning. Surround yourself by a trusted team of financial, legal and marketing advisers, paid according to what you need rather than having them on staff.
•    Read widely. Find the biographies and true stories of fashion icons in the area of fashion that you're interested in. Learn all of the ins and outs of their experiences and see how you can use their experience to better your own. For example, if you want to shift into eco fashion, there are plenty of good trailblazer designers whose experiences have been documented, such as Toms founder Blake Mycoskie's book Start Something That Matters or any of Anita Roddick's books about the related but relevant beauty industry.

Warnings
•    Working as a designer can be a physically strenuous career. You will need to be willing to work unexpected long hours to meet deadlines.
•    Designing for catwalks and high end fashion will bring you into direct contact with the challenging aspects of the industry, including using underweight models for fitting (thereby potentially making you complicit in encouraging unhealthy portrayals of women and men), cattiness from fellow designers and fashion industry elites and very difficult demands including tight deadlines. If you're not already an assertive person, it would be wise to spend time improving your skills in communicating and standing up for your principles.
•    The fashion industry is extremely competitive; only pursue a career in fashion if it you are 100 percent devoted to the field. It also helps to grow a thick hide very early on and to learn to be discerning about criticism––most criticism is sour grapes and if you believe in yourself, you'll know when the criticism is spot on or just plain nasty.

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