Education Of A Good Fashion Designer

It's possible that you've started looking into the various schools of fashion design and have had the occasional second thoughts. Either they look too expensive or perhaps the courses look too boring.

Do you really need to learn about the history of textiles to be a good fashion designer? If you already know you've got the talent, and have been dressing your friends and family for a long time already, maybe you don't even need to go to school before you try to launch your career. Others have done so without formal schooling, so why not you?

There's no doubt about it. Some designers have indeed had brilliant fashion design careers just by pulling themselves up by their own bootstraps. Except, of course, even though they worked hard, frequently their success came by serendipity and chance.

You've heard of the few successes, but no one knows the names of the vast majority who tried just as hard but never got the lucky breaks and never went anywhere. If you truly want to be a successful fashion designer, you need to think long and hard about how sure you are you'd end up among the few lucky ones.

Remember just how many successful designers, with obvious talent, attended fashion design schools. Someone like Byron Lars, who took the fashion world by storm in the early 1980s, was a brilliant talent, yet even with the schooling he had, he endured some low points in the 1990s.

His formal education as a fashion designer was undoubtedly what helped him keep going and return to a point of success. Consider his example and that of other successful designers, and remind yourself that in the very competitive world of fashion design, you need all the advantages you can add to your repertoire.

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