Starting Out...
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Developing Your Own Recognisable Style.
When they're new to the world of fashion, many designers worry about getting things right, about doing the job properly, and this leads them to try...
Fashion Design Training, Courses and Funding
When you're putting together your business plan, business support service advisers are bound to ask you what fashion design training you've had....
Finding a Studio or Shop Base
Finding a Studio or Shop Base
If you're launching your fashion business on a large scale, or if you've been working from home but have decided it's now time to...
Finding your Target Market in the Fashion Industry
Many people enter the fashion industry brimming with ideas about the things they want to create. Ultimately, however, fashion is a business, and in...
How Closely Can You Copy Other Fashion Designs?
In the fashion business, when everybody is working with the same colour and style ideas at the same time, determining what makes a particular...
Intellectual Property: Protecting Your Fashion Designs
Fashion is a business in which, to the casual observer, everybody seems to be copying everybody else. But shouldn't your fashion designs be your...
Interview: How I Started My Fashion Business
Starting up your own fashion business is beset with challenges but that didn't deter Glasgow designer Jane Faye, whose striking and unusual work...
Predicting and Following Fashion Trends
If you're going to be a successful fashion designer, it's essential that you can understand and anticipate fashion trends. Making very similar...
Quiz: Can you Run a Fashion Business?
Keen to go into the fashion business but not sure you've got what it takes? By answering these simple questions you can get an impression of just...
Should you Make Clothes to Fit all Sizes?
Many designers initially get involved in the fashion business without thinking about sizing. Because we're used to seeing models who are all...
Targeting a Niche vs Mainstream Fashion Market
Often when we think of fashion we think first of catwalk models and the magazines which feature them, then of the more modest versions of the...
Understanding Workplace Clothing
Making clothing for workplace wear may not be the most glamorous area of the fashion world, but it's a very important one, and because it attracts fewer talented...
