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How to become a professional fashion designer?
My youngest daughter at her young age is very fashionable. She is only 6 years old but she knows how to choose her own clothes and mix and match everything from the tie she wore on her hair to the sandals or shoes that she puts on. She often play dress up girls online too and I can see that she her is very interested in anything about fashion. Sometimes she will tell me that she will design dresses someday. Which left me thinking and asking what are the formal trainings or educations that a professional fashion designer should accomplish or pursue?
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Hey Annelisle, it sounds like your daughter is quite the aspiring fashionista! Perhaps she will become a designer, or find her way into one of the many other careers that exist within the fashion industry.
RE: the steps to take in order to prepare for a career as a designer...a good resource can be found at http://www.fashion.net/howto/fashiondesigner/ ... this includes a collection of links to reputable fashion schools, and you can explore the variety of available programs.
Thinking of more immediate possibilities for helping your daughter pursue her wish to design dresses ... why not make it happen? You could buy her a little sewing machine or teach her to do simple hand stitching, and help her make her very first dress :-) Might be fun to take her shopping and let her select an easy pattern (Simplicity, McCall and Butterick all have special categories of patterns for people who are just starting to learn about sewing, and you'll find other good resources on my list of links below) and then she can pick out her own fabrics and trims to create her very first project. You'd have to help her understand the directions, but she could most likely carry them out on her own and learn basic skills while doing so. If she enjoyed the work, it could become a rewarding hobby and perhaps eventually a career.
* A recommendation based on personal experience: doll clothes as a first project is often not a good idea. Barbie clothes were the first projects I tried to do when I was about 7 years old ... I came away from it feeling I didn't have any talent for sewing, and for a good 30+ years I thought of myself as a person who had no aptitude for sewing. :-) The reason doll clothes are hard is because they are so small--tiny, delicate work does not make for an easy introduction to sewing.
Though formal education might eventually be the right choice if your daughter chooses to pursue a career in fashion, if she truly has a passion for CREATING clothes it's something she can begin exploring on her own. Along the way she can discover if she truly loves designing and making clothes, or maybe she'll find that she doesn't feel driven to design the actual clothing herself, but loves other aspects of fashion... either way, she could have a career in some area of the industry as there are so many options beyond just the choice to become a designer.
RE: the steps to take in order to prepare for a career as a designer...a good resource can be found at http://www.fashion.net/howto/fashiondesigner/ ... this includes a collection of links to reputable fashion schools, and you can explore the variety of available programs.
Thinking of more immediate possibilities for helping your daughter pursue her wish to design dresses ... why not make it happen? You could buy her a little sewing machine or teach her to do simple hand stitching, and help her make her very first dress :-) Might be fun to take her shopping and let her select an easy pattern (Simplicity, McCall and Butterick all have special categories of patterns for people who are just starting to learn about sewing, and you'll find other good resources on my list of links below) and then she can pick out her own fabrics and trims to create her very first project. You'd have to help her understand the directions, but she could most likely carry them out on her own and learn basic skills while doing so. If she enjoyed the work, it could become a rewarding hobby and perhaps eventually a career.
* A recommendation based on personal experience: doll clothes as a first project is often not a good idea. Barbie clothes were the first projects I tried to do when I was about 7 years old ... I came away from it feeling I didn't have any talent for sewing, and for a good 30+ years I thought of myself as a person who had no aptitude for sewing. :-) The reason doll clothes are hard is because they are so small--tiny, delicate work does not make for an easy introduction to sewing.
Though formal education might eventually be the right choice if your daughter chooses to pursue a career in fashion, if she truly has a passion for CREATING clothes it's something she can begin exploring on her own. Along the way she can discover if she truly loves designing and making clothes, or maybe she'll find that she doesn't feel driven to design the actual clothing herself, but loves other aspects of fashion... either way, she could have a career in some area of the industry as there are so many options beyond just the choice to become a designer.
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http://www.fashion.net/howto/fashiondesigner/
http://www.fashioncareercenter.com/fashion_colleges.html
http://www.fashioncareercenter.com/
http://www.teachkidstosew.com/sewing_student_check.html
http://www.kidsew.com/
http://www.craftsofchaddsford.com/kids.htm
personal opinion and experience
http://www.fashion.net/howto/fashiondesigner/
http://www.fashioncareercenter.com/fashion_colleges.html
http://www.fashioncareercenter.com/
http://www.teachkidstosew.com/sewing_student_check.html
http://www.kidsew.com/
http://www.craftsofchaddsford.com/kids.htm
personal opinion and experience
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