Becoming a Fashion Designer

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How to Date Your Wardrobe: And Other Ways to Revive, Revitalize, and Reinvigorate Your Style

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Style Bible: What to Wear to Work

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Dress Code: Unlocking Fashion from the New Look to Millennial Pink

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Pretty Honest: The Straight-Talking Beauty Companion

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Tales from the Back Row: An Outsider's View from Inside the Fashion Industry

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The Iconist: The Art and Science of Standing Out

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J's Everyday Fashion and Faith: Personal Style with Purpose

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Luxury Business

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Why Did I Buy That?: And other thoughts on style and being a woman

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Getting Started in Fashion

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Chronicles of a Fashion Buyer: The Mostly True Adventures of an International Fashion Buyer

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Producing Fashion: Commerce, Culture, and Consumers

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The Psychology of Fashion

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That's What Fashion Is: Lessons and Stories from My Nonstop, Mostly Glamorous Life in Style

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Vivienne Westwood

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Fashion: Simple Steps to Find Style & Confidence In Your Every Day Look. Clothing Guide

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Hijacking the Runway: How Celebrities Are Stealing the Spotlight from Fashion Designers

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Behind-the-Scenes Fashion Careers

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This is Not a Fashion Story: Taking Chances, Breaking Rules, and Being a Boss in the Big City

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This Is Not a T-Shirt: A Brand, a Culture, a Community--a Life in Streetwear

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Disrobed: How Clothing Predicts Economic Cycles, Saves Lives, and Determines the Future

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Editor in Chic: How to Style and Be Your Most Empowered Self

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Garment Production for Fashion Start-ups with Chris Walker: Small Batch Apparel Manufacturing in Vietnam

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The Glitter Plan: How We Started Juicy Couture for $200 and Turned It into a Global Brand

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The Woman I Wanted to Be

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How to start out as a stylist!: Become a stylist wherever you live in the world

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Clothing Company and Dropshipping Bundle: Combined for a Massively Successful Business, Learn Branding, Ecommerce, Shopify, Social Media Marketing, Instagram Strategy, Graphic Design and Fashion

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House of Versace: The Untold Story of Genius, Murder, and Survival

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Styled: The Ultimate Guide on All Things Fashion, Learn Different Fashion Styles and Tips That Can Help You Look Your Best Every Day!

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Grace & Style: The Art of Pretending You Have It

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The Burnout Breakthrough: How to Balance Your Dreams, Responsibilities, and Self-Care Routine

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Quitting: Why I Left My Job to Live a Life of Freedom

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What Every BODY is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent’s Guide to Speed-Reading People

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The Dictionary of Body Language: A Field Guide to Human Behavior

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Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career

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Never Eat Alone, Expanded and Updated: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time

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THE PROFESSIONAL VOICEOVER HANDBOOK: All you need to know to start and to grow your six-figure home voiceover business

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Write It Down, Make It Happen: Knowing What You Want And Getting It!

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Values & Career Alignment

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Real Artists Don't Starve: Timeless Strategies for Thriving in the New Creative Age

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The First 90 Days: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter

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Nailing the Interview: A Comprehensive Guide to Job Interviewing: A Comprehensive Guide to Job Interviewing

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From Paycheck to Purpose: The Clear Path to Doing Work You Love

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Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett, Dave Evans - Book Summary: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life

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The Proximity Principle: The Proven Strategy That Will Lead to the Career You Love

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Start.: Punch Fear in the Face, Escape Average, and Do Work That Matters

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The Unspoken Rules: Secrets to Starting Your Career Off Right

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Motivated Mindset: Kick Procrastination to the Curb

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The 2-Hour Job Search: Using Technology to Get the Right Job Faster

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Jump: Take the Leap of Faith to Achieve Your Life of Abundance

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Summary: 12 Months to $1 Million: How to Pick a Winning Product, Build a Real Business, and Become a Seven-Figure Entrepreneur by Ryan Daniel Moran: Key Takeaways, Summary & Analysis

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Mean Girls at Work: How to Stay Professional When Things Get Personal

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The Advice Trap: Be Humble, Stay Curious & Change the Way You Lead Forever

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Your Talent Stack: How to Develop Your Skills and Talents, Stand Out, and Thrive in Your Career

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Steal the Show: From Speeches to Job Interviews to Deal-Closing Pitches, How to Guarantee a Standing Ovation for All the Performances in Your Life

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The Long Game: How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World

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It Worked For Me: In Life and Leadership

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Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type

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Becoming a Professional Life Coach: Lessons from the Institute of Life Coach Training, 2nd Edition

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Art, Inc.: The Essential Guide for Building Your Career as an Artist

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142: 9 Reasons Owning Your Style Will Change Your Life: ~The Simple Sophisticate, episode #142 ~Subscribe to The Simple Sophisticate: iTunes | Stitcher | iHeartRadio   "Individuals can take hold of [style] and make it their own. Style is about an individual and fashion...

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The First Stages Of Starting A Fashion Brand: In this weeks episode, we sat down with fashion consultant Maria Pesin. She is a senior apparel industry executive with an outstanding history of achievement and over 25 years of field experience. Knowing what to focus is one of the biggest struggles for starting fashion entrepreneurs. So we had Maria share the most important insights strategies that all fashion entrepreneurs must know when they are starting out.

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What Defines a Luxury Product Today? | Transforming Luxury: In Episode 2 of Transforming Luxury, BoF’s new podcast presented by Klarna, we investigate what will inform the luxury product mix of the future. Indeed, the definition of a luxury good has expanded dramatically in recent years to now include a host...

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SFD029: Fashion Career Advice for Ambitious Designers: Malie’s climbed her way up the corporate ladder in the fashion industry and now works for one of the largest fashion brands in the industry, PVH. It took her a while to realize it, but she unconsciously did some strategic things that helped her gain...

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SFF154: How She Became a Freelance Fashion Illustrator + Designer (and sent a $4500 invoice!): “I can’t freelance—I need a stable job.” One of the biggest misconceptions about freelancing in fashion is that it’s feast or famine. So many people imagine freelancers stuck in an endless job hunt, never knowing where their next project is...

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Scott Galloway on Fashion’s Darwinian Shakeout | Inside Fashion: The bestselling author and business professor offers his insight into the challenging market and M&A landscape that industry players of all sizes have to navigate. Scott Galloway is no stranger to expressing views as provocative as they are incisive. The...

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SFD125 How this Pattern Drafter Grew Her Freelance Business with Generosity: Karen LePage is a freelance patternmaker and grader who specializes in size inclusivity and sustainability. She’s also a fit consultant, a sewing and fit teacher, an author, and a mom. Karen broke into the industry without going to fashion school,...

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SFD 015: How to Get Factories to Take You Seriously: Kathleen Fasanella is author of one of the fashion industry’s best resource books, The Entrepreneur's Guide to Sewn Product Manufacturing. Kathleen is a trained pattern maker with almost 4 decades of experience, and now owns a factory in...

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Inside Yohji Yamamoto’s Fashion Philosophy: In a rare interview, the influential Japanese designer speaks with BoF’s Imran Amed about the philosophy that underpins his boundary-breaking career. Background:  After graduating from Keio University with a law degree, Yohji Yamamoto realised...

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Chapters of a Life in Fashion | Jane Pendry, Dovima: What We Wore

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Restarts and Resets in The Fashion Month Gone By: Tim Blanks and Imran Amed discuss the highlights of the Autumn/Winter 2023 collections, including Daniel Lee’s debut at Burberry, a transitional show at Gucci and Balenciaga’s first brand statement in the wake of the advertising scandal.

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The Dark Ages Of Fashion Content Creation with Kyron Warrick: Join my Fashion Startup Consulting Group: https://cargoir3.clickfunnels.com/start-your-fashion-brand Fashion stylist & content creator Kyron Warrick talks about his story, his youtube career, his take on why generating content successfully in the fashion space has changed, and how to adapt. Into Archive's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/intoarchive/?hl=es Kyron's Youtube Instagram: https://www.youtube.com/c/KyronWarrick/videos Video Format Of This Episode: https://www.youtube.com/c/EstebanJulian/videos

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SFD051: Discover How One Fashion Design Entrepreneur Created a Flexible Direct-to-Consumer Business: Creating a direct-to-consumer (DTC) business in the fashion industry isn’t easy. Learn from serial entrepreneur and new fashion designer Allison Floam on this episode of The Successful Fashion Designer - I promise it’s an episode you don’t want...

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The Fashion Startup Journey: Unveiling the Power of the Perfect Partnership | PAST TENSE Founders Adrien Forrey & Victor Lindh: In this week's episode, we sat down with experienced fashion executives turned entrepreneurs Adrien Forrey & Victor Lindh. We dive into the raw reality of the fashion startup journey, why experience alone isn't enough when starting a fashion brand, and how partnering with the right business partner can make or break your success. For clips and video version of this podcast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCALRJUvCL5a15ZwW7dcpCyA PAST TENSE: https://www.past-tense-studio.com/

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Li Edelkoort’s ‘Anti-Fashion’ Manifesto: The fashion system has been broken for some time, said trend forecaster Li Edelkoort at VOICES 2016. But, it can still regain its cultural cachet, and fix its exploitative practices. When trend forecaster Li Edelkoort first published a manifesto...

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SFD043: Build Your Career as a Freelance Pattern Maker (from anywhere): You may think it's impossible to have a career as a freelance pattern maker in the fashion industry. And you'd probably think it's even more impossible to do it from a rural town. But that's exactly what David Russon does. In today's episode...

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GIRL CODE: Amber Tolliver is DISRUPTING the Fashion World with Her Curvy, Full-Figured Lingerie Line: Meet Amber Tolliver, 17-year veteran of the modeling industry who is disrupting the world of lingerie by filling the need for sexy, luxurious and intimate apparel for all. Her most recent venture, Liberté, satisfies the desire many women outside the...

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How Did 2020 Impact Luxury? | Transforming Luxury: Critic Robin Givhan, analyst Luca Solca, author Dana Thomas and Métier founder Melissa Morris discuss how luxury became a winners-take-all market and how growing consumer scrutiny is driving change. BoF is investigating how market disruption, new...

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Rethinking Fashion’s Approach to the Plus-Size Market: Fashion brands are upping marketing rhetoric and imagery to include a wider range of body types, but many companies are still failing to serve the plus-size consumer. The market for plus-size fashion is worth nearly $30 billion in the US alone. But while...

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SFD064 Fashion Startup Advice on Creating, Manufacturing and Selling Your Designs: You’re someone who spends hours getting lost in a fashion idea, drawing and redesigning a garment over and over again until it’s just right. But once those ideas are perfected you’re not sure how to go from hand drawing on a napkin to holding...

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Joining the circular economy with Vestiaire Collective: As Vestiaire Collective celebrates its 10th anniversary, bolstered by news that the resell industry is now growing 1.5 times faster than the fast-fashion industry, Monica and Camille sit down with the founders of the luxury second-hand website to unpac...

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83) What Is Circular Fashion Design? | Carmen Gama of EILEEN FISHER: Fashion has a major waste crisis. Circularity — along with slowing down production — can be an antidote, if done right. But what does real circular fashion look like in practice? What would it look like to have a true systems approach to circular design and circular fashion? Today Stella is interviewing Carmen Gama, the Director of Circular Design at Eileen Fisher, which is a company that has been leading the way on many circular fashion practices. Carmen Gama also founded a B2B circular service called MAKE ANEEW which you'll hear a lot about in this episode. Carmen Gama shares what circular design means in practice and how brands can create their own post consumer waste reduction supply chains. If you're curious to hear more about what it's like to be a circular designer, and how you might be able to explore this career path, you can read a Conscious Career Chat with Carmen on Conscious Fashion Collective Also in

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1099: The GirlBoss Sophia Amoruso on Failure, Cancel Culture and Her Newest Endeavor

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No Pattern Necessary — Episode 34: No-pattern sewing patterns!

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The King of Fashion: Paul Poiret

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How to Read a Dress, an Interview with Lydia Edwards

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Lessons in Fashion Business-Building from Proenza Schouler | The BoF Podcast: Designers Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez speak to BoF’s Lauren Sherman about their journey from one-time fashion wunderkinds to seasoned entrepreneurs, navigating a series of ups and downs. Fresh out of fashion school — armed with approval...

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Parisian couture, Japanese manners, and British style inspiration: Berets, bouclé, and a scale replica of the left bank: the Paris couture shows are underway, with Lisa Armstrong reporting from the front row. Back in the studio, Charlie Gowans-Eglinton, Bethan Holt, Victoria Moss and Caroline Leaper are discussing Brigi...

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The Debrief: Why Chanel Is Opening Private Boutiques: BoF’s luxury editor Robert Williams offers insight into the surprising news that the mega-label plans to open stores dedicated to serving top customers. Background:  As traffic to stores soars, Chanel’s chief financial officer Philippe...

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Starting A Fashion Brand In Developing Countries: In this weeks episode, we sat down with Brazilian fashion entrepreneur Michelle Lima. She is the Co-founder and CEO of Blue Bird Shoes. Michelle has been working in the shoe industry since she was 17 years old. There are still a lot of questions in regards to starting a fashion brand in developing countries. So we feel very lucky to have somebody like Michelle sharing her valuable advice and experience with us.