Fashion Designing For Beginners

[Mariela Laflam]

Fashiondesign is the craft and art form of applying aesthetic and visual principles, along with garment fabrication skills, to the creation of clothing, footwear, and accessories. While humans have been crafting garments for millenia, the modern institution of couture houses headed up by a designer who oversees the creative direction has only been around since the mid-19th century, when English-born, Paris-based designer, Charles Frederick Worth, began affixing labels with his name to his garments.

Since then, the most common conception of a fashion designer has been someone who heads their own label and creates garments that work together to tell a story or evoke a certain attitude and look. However, not all fashion designers own their own labels. Many also work for other brands or fashion houses, and every garment that you see hanging on a shelf in a store had to be, to some extent, designed by somebody.

Fashion design is associated with creativity and self expression. Through the art of fashion design, a designer can express an artistic idea, explore facets of a culture, or even make a political statement.

Most garments also serve a practical function: we need clothes to protect ourselves from the elements and to go about daily life. However, when it comes to fashion design, the goal often goes beyond just the practical. There is also usually an aesthetic and artistic aim when designing a garment. A really well designed, well constructed garment can make the wearer feel confident and attractive, while a poorly designed one can have the opposite effect.

On the other end of the spectrum, some garments created by fashion designers are entirely impractical for real life wear, and serve an almost entirely artistic or creative purpose. These garments can be thought of as a kind of wearable art or sculpture.

Backwards Pricing. With this method, you take your target retail price and divide it by 4. If you can produce the garment for that amount or less, you can use that price. For example, say you want to make a cardigan and sell it for $80. As long as you can make it for $20 or less, that should be a reasonable and sustainable price for your business.

Absorption Pricing. To calculate your price using this method, simply take all of your fixed and variable costs and multiply them by 2 or 2.5. To get all of your costs, add the cost to make the garment, plus your overhead costs such as studio rent, plus the profit margin you want to make.

Fair Fit is a Baton Rouge, Louisiana based fashion design studio with classes to teach you how to sew, design, and customize your own clothing. Our sewing classes are tailored for beginner sewists, and our private lessons specialize in fashion design, pattern making, and wardrobe construction.

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