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Young designers—at the risk of insulting you, it amazes me how many of you don’t have the first clue about buying fabrics. I mean, your fabrics are the cornerstone of your designs and making sure you can get your hands on them for production before you make your samples, is essential. Why did you create that beautiful dress with a yard of novelty fabric that you picked up at the flea market last summer? Do you think that the 100 yards you need for production will just apparate magically? Praying

There may be a time not so far in the near future where fashion designers may start employing, Solar fabric. Ideal Star, a Tokyo based company, has come up with a rather
interesting development, specifically a way to infuse threads with solar
cells, and this method actually coats the threads, so it’s claimed that
there is no need for expensive equipment to manufacture it. What’s even
better is the flexible ability of the threads.Read more here.

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Hi there everybody, fellow fashion lovers, I sometimes try to explain in my head why do I want to be a fashion designer? This may seem like I'm not serious about being a fashion designer if this is something I'm frequently asking my self. Well first off, the reason I'm asking myself this all the time is because everybody looks at my desire to be a fashion designer as rather a joke, yes this is painful, the other reason is because I seek to find this unique drive I sense in myself as the major un