HOW
TO BECOME A FASHION DESIGNER
It’s no news that every
youth in Nigeria today is a fashion designer (in their words). You steal a
style from a magazine and reproduce it with the help of your tailor then you
sell it to people with maybe your label on it and you automatically become a fashion
designer. I’m sorry but it goes beyond that. And that makes you business
Man/Woman not a fashion designer. If that’s what makes you a designer then
everyone is a designer because at one point in our life, we have all stolen
from a magazine or the internet to reproduce.
“Don’t recycle ideas, create new ones”
We all
know that fashion evolves and revolves.
what was in style in the 60’s is back on the runway and seriously
trending!. But the designers add a touch of modernity into the trend. They
don’t just bring it back raw. They change fabrics, styles, add little details
etc. .
Being a
fashion designer goes beyond seeing, you have to be in touch with your
feelings, let your environment and the people in it inspire you, let nature
inspire you, so you know God is the greatest inspiration, so let him inspire
you. “Nature” play with colours,
patterns, darts style lines etc.
You should also be able to put down your inspirations in black and
white “Paper/Pencil” Be creative, be innovative, be a visionary, see the
future, predict the future. Project runway once asked their competitors to
create a design for the future and yeah, they had winner.
Creativity is
very much in our DNA everyone has his/her creative talents. So some people were
born fashion designers others weren’t if you know you were born with it improve
in it. “Be devoted to perfection. But if you weren’t and you have
the passion for it, go to a fashion University/ a fashion school. Learn to sew,
learn to draw. That way you already have an idea what you want to do. No tailor
would cheat you. You’d make beautiful garments because you already know not to
put warden on clothes that needs stay or the difference between cowl neck and V
neck etc. and if you own a fashion home, when there is a problem you would be
able to tell where it’s from and tackle it. Instead of sacking
your tailors continously. "Don’t be a fashion designer that can’t sew a button on a garment,
be a designer that can sew a complete garment".
You can’t
compare Diddy to Karl Lagerfeld neither can you compare Alexandra Wang to the
kardashian sisters. Diddy, the kardashians and whichever celebrity have clothing lines, while Karl Lagerfeld, Alexandra Wang etc. are fashion designers.
All fashion
designers have their clothing lines and not everyone that owns a clothing line
can be called a fashion designer. To every business you want to go into, have
proper knowledge on it before going into it; one of your workers leave you can
fill up the space and work goes on.
X.O.X.O
Sals
Peters
