Starting Out
Below are our 8 articles in the 'starting out' category:

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 and make their clothes as similar as possible to ...

When you're putting together your business plan, business support service advisers are bound to ask you what fashion design training you've had. The fact is that many people get into the fashion ...

Many people enter the fashion industry brimming with ideas about the things they want to create. Ultimately, however, fashion is a business, and in business it's not what you want that matters - ...

In the fashion business, when everybody is working with the same colour and style ideas at the same time, determining what makes a particular design different can be tricky. Accidental ...

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 intellectual property? Is there no way that you can ...

If you're going to be a successful fashion designer, it's essential that you can understand and anticipate fashion trends. Making very similar clothes to those which people have spent the last year ...

Many designers initially get involved in the fashion business without thinking about sizing. Because we're used to seeing models who are all roughly the same size, it's easy to forget how much ...

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 clothes we see there which are sold in high street chain ...