So you want to be a fashion designer : here's the info you need

So you want to be a fashion designer Here's the info you need

Lisa McGinnes

Book - 2017

"Teeming with interviews from successful designers as well as captivating images of example designs, this book has everything the young audience needs. You will learn how to pursue education, how to determine your specialty, pattern-making, bookkeeping, and everything in-between all explained simply. The young adult audience will come away from this book with not only all the up-to-date information on fashion design, but also a keen sense of how to create a business plan as well as how to advertise online. If you want to know everything there is to know about how to be a fashion designer (before you make the mistakes this book teaches you how to fix), then this is the perfect read for you"--Amazon.com.

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Subjects
Fashion design > Vocational guidance.
Fashion merchandising > Vocational guidance.
Clothing trade > Vocational guidance.
Published
Ocala, Florida : Atlantic Publishing Group, Inc [2017]
Language
English
Main Author
Lisa McGinnes (author)
Other Authors
Maya Ramirez (-)
Physical Description
215 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-190) and index.
ISBN
9781620232057
9781620232507
  • An overview of fashion design
  • Paths to a fashion design career
  • Developing you fashion focus
  • Designing your line
  • Sample garments
  • Selling your designs
  • Manufacturing
  • Marketing
  • Publicity
  • Starting a business
  • Customer service
  • Get your design on now!
Review by Booklist Review

This helpful, accessible guide packs in a tremendous amount of information. Assuming no previous knowledge and taking the mile-wide/inch-deep approach, chapters briefly touch on just about everything an aspiring designer needs to know. Sample topics include an abbreviated overview of the profession, assorted paths to success, developing a fashion focus and finding a specialized niche, creating sample garments, a quick tutorial on types of fabrics, and recommended schools. It gets down to business with discussions of legal protection, selling, pricing, manufacturing, labeling, marketing, publicity, financing, and customer service and suggestions for getting started right away. This dizzying array is presented logically and incorporates helpful charts and checklists, plus plenty of references to sources with more in-depth information. Personal interviews with current successful professionals further spice up the engaging text and showcase a range of career possibilities. Casual fashionistas and idle doodlers may be overwhelmed, but serious fashion designer wannabes should end up informed, inspired, and delighted.--McBroom, Kathleen Copyright 2017 Booklist

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.

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