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What Experience Needed To Become A Fashion Designer?

 
 
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Luciana Scott
Luciana Scott
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Date: 2007-02-07 08:43
i've heard that you need to work for about ten years as designers assistant before you can become a fashion designer yourself. i wonder if it's true. is it really that hard to get into that business? :dunno:

Billy Soh
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Date: 2007-02-21 07:28
Well you either go study the subject then work with an older designer, or you simply skip the study part and go work as an assistant for a long time, or a slightly shorter time if you're really lucky.

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Date: 2007-02-23 04:41
One of the biggest things in becoming a fashion designer that is even mediocre famous is luck.

I work with designers all the time, most house designers entered the business from places like Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, or the London College of Fashion, or a myriad of other schools all over the world, they left their schools, with their degrees, expecting to be the next big thing – and 99.99% of them become pattern makers and merchandisers.

It’s a rough bitchy business, which most people start at the bottom as junior pattern makers, and with some luck might become a house pattern master or house designer, and then with amazing luck get offered a chance for more, or go it alone, creating their own label and try whoreing their styles into places where they will be seen.

Not a business that I’d suggest children of mine to enter.

Sharas Murtza
Sharas Murtza
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Date: 2007-02-23 07:49
and what is a fashion designer? :shocked:
He who listens to truth is not less than he who utters truth.

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Date: 2007-03-01 17:41
;)Sharas - i will pretend you didst ask that- I think if your good with the right support you can rise fast - its a cut throat business

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Date: 2007-04-12 16:11
One should at least learn the basics !

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Date: 2007-07-25 14:24
I'm actually really intesested in Fashion Design & Merchandising. I've taken some classes at Academy of Art University, though i'm still in high school, and i'm planning to go there and get my BA and then start working from the bottom. Of course, i've thought about FIT or Parson's, because those are also good schools, and FIT is more well-known. Anybody know if AAU is any good?

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Date: 2007-07-25 15:48
Basia Cossel:

I'm actually really intesested in Fashion Design & Merchandising. I've taken some classes at Academy of Art University, though i'm still in high school, and i'm planning to go there and get my BA and then start working from the bottom. Of course, i've thought about FIT or Parson's, because those are also good schools, and FIT is more well-known. Anybody know if AAU is any good?


Basia,
Business Week magazine created a list in 2006 of top design programs worldwide, not just fashion.
http:// bwnt. businessweek. com/ dschools/ 2006 (ignore spaces)

Good luck!

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Date: 2007-08-13 22:56
Andrew Spendlove:

[Basia Cossel: ...]

Basia,
Business Week magazine created a list in 2006 of top design programs worldwide, not just fashion.
http:// bwnt. businessweek. com/ dschools/ 2006 (ignore spaces)

Good luck!


Andrew I congratulate you on your open miind as a mature student considering this profession! the subject you speak of is my area of knowledge & background so if I can assist in anyway then please don't hesitate to ask!
I wish you well
MIKE!

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