Phase 1: Starting Out
Must learn: Fashion skills
Goal: Feeling confident about your skills
Whether you just decided to learn fashion, or you have time learning, you still have lots of things to learn + practice + improve about fashion.
The way you learn is up to you. Depending on the time + money you have available, you can pick all the options that you want. Now you have tons of options at your disposal from free like YouTube + resources like this, to paid like books, school, and online courses.
Your goal at this phase is to learn + practice + improve as much as you can. Enough to feel tremendously confident about your skills.
Some of the fashion skills you could learn are
- Fashion drawing
- Fashion illustration
- Fashion design
- Textile pattern design
- Adobe Illustrator for fashion
- Adobe Illustrator for textile patterns
- How to design a clothing collection
- How to design an illustration collection
- How to design a textile collection
- Working with inspiration
- How to make an effective research
- Composition
- Pattern Making
- Sewing
Your milestones are
- Decide you want to learn fashion
- Make a list of all the fashion skills you want to learn
- Determine HOW you want to learn those skills (Books, Courses, School)
- Acquire what you need to learn those skills (Books + Courses + Materials + Tools)
- Schedule learning your fashion skills, and learn
- Schedule practicing your fashion skills, and practice
- Learn one skill at a time, practice it, evaluate your performance, and improve it. Then, continue with the next skill
- Assess your levels of confidence. How confident do you feel about your skills? Are you ready to move on?
HELPFUL RESOURCES
P.S: Have you seen the COURSES I have for you at the Fashion School?
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