Maggy The No Name Designer

Hello all!   My name is Maggy and I’m an aspiring fashion designer and these are my confessions.

I’ve always wanted to become a designer (key word here being WANTED) but I never knew that I could actually do it.  When I started college, I was pre-med.  How do you go from being pre-med with intentions of going to medical school and being the greatest doctor that ever lived to wanting to become a fashion designer of all things? Easy, you fail Chemistry.  I failed that class with everything I had (and sorta glad I did).  When I failed Chemistry, it was like a weight was lifted off my shoulders.  I loved science and learning and all that, it was just the lifestyle I couldn’t get used to.  There was no way I was going to sit in my room every night (Fridays and Saturdays included) and study.  Just study. Nothing else. Sounds exciting right?

So I’m sure you would feel the sense of relief that came with failing that Chemistry class. My dad was the one who pushed me into becoming a doctor.  I guess so he can say that his daughter was in Medical School.  (Really, dad?)  He still pushes me to be doctor.  Till this day, he asks me what the hell I’m going to do with my life if I’m not going to medical school. This is what I tell him: “You go to medical school and tell me how easy it is.  Then maybe I’ll think about it.”

But I seriously had to think about what the hell I was going to do with my life if I wasn’t going to medical school.  I majored in history, so maybe I could be a Historian.  Fun right? Spending days in the archives, nights researching, and the rest of my time writing journals and books only my fellow historians and students (who are forced to read these kinds of books) will read.  Please! Someone tell me where I can sign up for this kind of life!!!! -_-

I need excitement in my life.  So what is it that I have always enjoyed, and was actually kinda good at? Two things actually: Drawing and sewing.  I used to sew outfits for my Barbies when I was little.  I’d have to buy new Barbie dolls all the time because I hadn’t figured out how to sew on a way to get the outfits off.  I also had sketchbooks upon sketchbooks of dresses I designed, honestly for the hell of it.  I never thought I would go anywhere with these designs. But now that I have no clue what I am going to with my life, and I just graduated college, I need to figure something out, like yesterday.

So taking the famous saying, “Do what you love and you’ll never have to work a day in your life” literally, I decided to become what I always thought I could never be, a friggin fashion designer!!

I started my business about a year ago, and I have yet to produce a single thing.  This is rough business and industry, and here you will see me get beaten down, get back up and try it all over again because it’s a jungle out there.  You will see my journey to becoming a NAME in fashion.  Someone people have heard of.  Here you will see me try to become Maggie, the girl behind Hans Bideo (registered).

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