Leather Designs

Offering leather designs in your clothes business has many areas for potential and real success.  This may be leather designs in the form of leather handbags to leather coats or jackets.

The wonderful thing about designing in leather is that this medium never goes out of fashion.  It always looks smart and takes many wears or even many years before the garment looks worn.

Leather garments can be dressed up or dressed down, depending on your mood or the event.  Many people love wearing leather garments because of the feel of it and in the autumn or fall, love the comfort it gives on a cold evening.

Leather Designs

Recently in London, I noticed that Rick Owens, designer of high fashion leather garments, has opened a large two storey shop at 64 South Audley Street in London.  If you get the chance, please go along there to see the incredible work of this leather designer.

With your leather designs, amazing garments can be created … and with the potential of offering a service, to size!

Spend a few moments watching the video below.  It may inspire you to create your own leather designs.

Fashion Fix: Leather Pants

Now, they may not be for everyone but consider also mixing leather with other textiles!

Can you imagine what could be created?

Leather Designs Tools

The tools you would require to create your own leather designs would be easy to acquire.  They could be using a specific sewing maching to eventually moving onto a leather sewing machine.  In fact, if you already have a sewing machine than all you would need would be the Schmetz sewing machine needles.  These needles are specif for sewing leather and other heavy non woven materials and are compatible for most sewing machines.   Also, by starting off using these sewing needles, you would not be incurring much cost when starting your own clothes business

Another alternative is that you could also consider outsourcing the samples thus saving you the cost of purchasing machinery and the time involved in learning to operate them sucessfully.

Leather Designs In Your Clothes Business  -  Conclusion

Concentrating on leather designs either as a leather business totally or as a compliment to your cloths business must surely be worth considering. There are so many different areas you could specialise in or alternatively, as mentioned previously, you could incorporate the leather into your already unique designs, thus making them more desirable to some of your potential customers.

Consider also the leather accessories you could create if you did not want to actually create leather garments.  However, allow yourself to spend time contemplating all the leather designs you could create to add to your clothes business.

Yes, it can be advantageous to have a fashion degree but, it is definitely not necessary. You can most certainly create a successful business without this and also go on to become a fashion designer in your own right because of your own unique creative talents.

Yet another myth is that you will need to be able to use the machinery required to create garments. You may even have been led to believe that you will also need to have completed a basic art and design course as well as have sketches and examples of your artistic skills available and ready at hand for examination.

Other myths include, that you need to have a sound knowledge of textiles and their uses, and that a bank or lending institution will not take you seriously, if you do not have a fashion degree.

Putting these myths aside, because I for one created a successful business with just the determination to do this,  following are three tips to start you on the road to creating a very successful fashion business and what you will actually need to start.

Clothes Business – Tip 1
You need a vision of what you want to achieve in your business before you can even start to put this dream into action. In most cases, a person who is drawn to the fashion industry is someone who is innately artistic and this talent is normally dormant until the time arrives that it becomes an overriding passion to be expressed.

The first thing to do when the vision of designing garments start appearing in your minds eye, is to start sketching or even doodling these designs. Your design could start with just the mental picture of the back of a garment, seeing a particular pleat in your imagination. This vision will grow into the whole skirt and then the jacket to match. Before long, you be looking at alternative jackets and coats, all in your minds eye!

Clothes Business – Tip 2
Once you have your sketches of the designs you want to create ready, your next step would be to have these translated into garments.

To do this, you have a few alternatives. You can either find someone within your family, or circle of friends, who has the skill to do it for you or, you can ask them to find out if they know someone within their own circle of friends who would be able to create the garments for you. Alternatively, you could advertise in the appropriate magazines to find a suitable person to make up your garments.

Clothes Business – Tip 3
Now armed with your designs, you need to find customers because as soon as you have a database of customers and a working history in the fashion market, then you will be looked upon as a good investment by banks or other financial lending companies.

Just by starting with your very first customer, this can lead to many others, through recommendations. Therefore your task is to ensure that each and every customer is completely happy with the garment they have paid for, so that they in turn will pass your details on to their family and friends.

The above three tips will help you to get started with creating a clothes business and hopefully dispel the myths which may have held you back in the past from entering into the fashion business.  Go for it!

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But, I have some good news because I’ve been doing some research on the subject and came up with some very interesting information

My original intention was to list some of the books I’ve been researching but as luck would have it, I found, what I consider to be the number one book to own.

Read ahead and I’ll explain why …

(I’ve put the link at the bottom because I want to explain why I think it would be great for you first!)

Amazingly, this book is used not only by teachers to teach the subject to their students but is has also been recommended by teachers for their students of fashion illustration to go out to buy and use it.  To me, that can only be the very best recommendation. Having been a teacher myself, successful students are a teacher’s priority, so finding the right information to pass on them is one major step in that direction.

The main focus of the book is in encouraging students to develop their own creativity in sketching contemporary fashion drawings of their visions taking into account the historical fashion illustration of the past, as well as including the present and future.

Illustration demonstrations of all gender and ages are covered, which is an important element of being a fashion illustrator.  You need to make sure that your have the skills to accommodate any request for illustrations required across the board and this book certainly covers that as well as the multimedia platforms you will need to be familiar with.

Accompanying the book are two DVDs which enable you to see the drawings.  Also included within the DVD’s are images showing techniques and demonstrations of other elements within  the fashion design of the garment, which you may not even have thought about and how to do them.

Reading through all the reviews on this book … it seems that most people had bought other books on the subject but found this to be the very best.

One person even said that it was great for those who don’t quite know how to draw because of the step by step instructions that go with the illustrations.

After reading this and checking through the book … this is a must for me and I am definitely going to get a copy for when I start designing again next year.

There are others on the market but it appears to me that this is the Rolls Royce and well worth every penny spent.

I’ve put the link here for you to check it.  Fashion Design Illustration -  the cover is fabulous too.

I honestly believe that these fashion illustration sketches are a wonderful art in themselves.  After seeing these, you may even decide that you don’t want to have your own fashion design business but would prefer to be one of the best fashion illustration artists instead … what wonderful  choices you have 

Still want to be a fashion designer …