Preparing to be a Fashion Designer
Begin with drawing and sketching even early at school. Sketch people around you, people with different types and colours of clothing. Draw fashionable looking figures and learn to develop your instinct for putting your ideas down on paper.

Fashion relates to trends, use your imagination to learn about fashion, read all you can get on it-the history and the story of its evolution. The work of famous designers and their distinctive styles. Read fashion magazines you can lay your hands on and study the prevalent trends in design.

You have to know cutting, sewing, draping, how to distinguish between differences in fabric quality and you have to be really persevering when searching for good cloth.

Training for apparel designing provides an access to fabrics and a knowledge of basic craftsmanship and also of other specialized fields like embroidery.