Inspirational stories of fashion designers have always inspired those who actually want to become a fashion designer, achieve their goal. 

For many, they can’t move forward from ‘the dream’ .

However, what many fashion designers (including Vivienne Westwood) have achieved is possible for anyone with the right determindation and tenacity.

It’s easy to sit and day dream but with the right direction it’s just as easy to … for for it!

Vivienne Westwood

I hope this one story alone helps you to realise your own potential and inspires you to take that first step to start your own clothes business.

Vivienne Westwood’s fashion career has now moved into home interiors with her recent move to designing wallpaper ! 

Fashion and interior design! Anything is possible … for anyone!

Leave a comment below if you can share any inspirational stories which have motivated you, in your determination to become a fashion designer.

Do you want to start a clothes business?

Watch the video below and you’ll see another side of Victoria Beckham.  She is obviously in her element right now!

Victoria Beckham, Fashion Designer

Obviously she is in a lucky position to be financially capable of doing this but if you really want to become a fashion design, you can definitely do it.

Many have done it before on a shoe string, myself included, and many will do it again.

Why not think about completing an online fashion course because, the last thing you want to do is to sit back in years to come and remember the unfulfilled dream of yours to become a fashion designer.  Go For It!

This is an amazing fashion success story which starts from her growing up as a farmer’s daughter and with a single sewing machine, she started making suits 30 years ago for the Chinese peasants, to eventually enticing the wealthiest men in the world to wear her Dayang Trands, suits.

Sewing machine to business success.

Buffett, the second wealthiest man, according to Forbes, is one such customer.

Dalian, China, known for its manufacturing of petrochemicals and computer exports is now recorded as being an area for high fashion exports, due to the success of Dayang Trands.

“Madame Li’s brand Trands, went from making simple outfits for the field workers.  Slowly they expanded into making more difficult garments and it was her trip to Japan to observe the suit-making techniques in the factories there which led her to expand her business to now producing more than 15 million garments a year.  These are now exported around the world.

One of their main marketing ploys was very cleverly executed.

When Mr Buffet was visiting Dallan, the location of Madame Li’s manufacture, he was tracked down and measured for a suit.  In fact, he was gifted with two suits.  These fitted him so well, that when he returned to the States, he found that he was receiving compliments on his dress, so he ordered six more.  Bill Gates is now also a customer of Madame Li’s brand.

She is convinced that Buffett’s endorsement gave the company a tremendous boost to their company.

But she was unique, in the fact that her garments were made to the highest specification and were tailored to compare on an equal par with other very expensive suit around the world.

Her entrepreneural spirit for creating a very successful business is also unique in a country where the majority of successful businesses in China have some form of state ownership.

If going down the route of becoming a fashion designer and starting your own fashion business is what you want to aspire to, what lessons can be derived from this true story of fashion business success?