If you're looking to break into the fashion industry as a designer, MSNBC Newsweek has a great article about how three sisters have started their own Manhattan design label. This is the first article of a monthly series...
If you want to know what you, as a fashion designer, are in for, read this from the article:
" Aspiring style-makers not only have to master the fine art of sales and marketing, they have to channel their creative genius into products that pass the buzz test season after season. So while every designer wants to be the next household name, it's not surprising that few have what it takes. Designers held about 17,000 jobs in the United States in 2004, but only about 25 percent were self-employed. About 15 percent worked for wholesalers or cut-and-sew apparel manufacturing, and the rest slaved away at big fashion houses. "
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