Fashion Designer Photography Shack
Fashion Designer With Skills And Knowledge
By Judd Walker
So you want to be a fashion designer. But perhaps you’re
thinking you’d rather not waste your time going to some
school that will only teach you a bunch of dead design
rules, because you’re an innovator and want to push
beyond those rules.
Surely you can launch your own fashion design career
without taking a bunch of courses and getting a piece
of paper that declares that you are a designer? You’re
a designer right now. Hasn’t it happened before, that
great fashion has been created by people who haven’t
had any formal schooling?
You know that others have enjoyed amazing fashion design
careers in the past without acquiring much schooling.
But you need to keep in mind how few they have been,
by contrast to the large numbers of successful designers
who graduated from organized, accredited programs.
Knowing The Underlying Principles Of Good Design
The occasional fashion designer who broke through the
wall and achieved success often had it fall into their
laps by sheer luck, by being in the right place at the
right time. It’s true that you always need to
review your options, work hard, and hard work will be
rewarded, but are you really ready to entrust your future
to that kind of off chance?
Usually, whether it’s art, language or another discipline,
you can’t really "break the rules" until you
know what they are, and understand them thoroughly.
A fashion design school will teach you the underlying
principles of good design, so that if you break them
and do something different, you’ll understand why it
works in some cases and doesn’t work in others.
Knowing Your Requirements To Find Success
If you don’t have that intrinsic grounding, your innovation
will be very "hit and miss," and not likely
to make you a successful designer. You may find yourself
scratching your head, thinking, "Well it worked
last time, what happened this time?"
This is something that many well known designers have
understood from the beginning of their own fashion careers.
Whether it’s Calvin Klein, Donna Karan of the DKNY line,
or David Rodriguez who has dressed the casts of Friends
and Sex in the City, all of them understood what was
required to become a well grounded fashion designer.
Give Yourself An Advantage
Each of them, and most of the other successful designers
in the fashion world, attended design schools and earned
degrees. Yes, it’s very possible you will be more innovative
and creative than they are, and could potentially break
into the businesses on your own.
Yet in the midst of so much competition, why not give
yourself every conceivable advantage you can get, and
add a fashion degree to all your other talents?
About the Author:
Judd Walker is an author of articles on design, digital video, digital photography and modeling including
Fashion Schools,
Female Models,
Movie Camera,
Best Digital Camcorder,
Film Director,
Funny Video Clips.
Keep a lookout for more articles coming soon.
More Graphic Design Facts....
Fashion equates to big money for those that know how
the fashion industry works. Just think about the thousands
of women willing to dish out huge chunks of money for
uncomfortable shoes just because they are from Jimmy
Choo.
So you have fashion school under your belt...now what?
Now it is time to start learning how to be a success
and learning the business end of the fashion industry.
Maybe if you are lucky and work hard enough it will
be your name people are screaming about and willing
to pay thousands of dollars for just to own a piece
of your apparel.
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