How To Educate Yourself About The Fashion Industry Pt.1

 

There are many ways for you to learn about the fashion industry without having to go to fashion school. The internet, especially YouTube has a lot of free information about the industry that can help you understand fashion and even give you the tools to run your own business.

Books:

  • Fashionpedia

    • The visual dictionary of fashion design. This book contains information about fashion history and style, apparel details, textile information, manufacturing, measurements, and cosmetics. The book is also visually pleasing. 

  • Technical Drawing For Fashion

    • The best textbook for learning how to draw technical flats on Adobe Illustrator. The book is a step-by-step guide on how to create basic flats and details them to create a more detailed illustration. 

  • Fashion Business Manual

    • The best book for a visual guide on the business aspects of the fashion industry. The book covers topics like branding, production, retailing, and marketing. The visual format makes the information easier to understand.

  • The Fashion Designer Survival Guide:

    • This book talks about how designers start, operate, and grow their business and is great for people who want to eventually own their own fashion label. 

  • Fashion Design Course: Principles, Practice, and Techniques: The Practical Guide for Aspiring Fashion Designers 

    • This textbook helps you understand the fashion industry as a whole, From the history of fashion to how to create a collection. The book is easy to understand and has a lot of useful information.

Youtube Channels:

  • i-D

    • i-D celebrates fashion, culture, individuality, and youth. The YT channel highlights unique and diverse perspectives to allow for more inclusivity within fashion and youth culture. i-D offers access to the most inspiring names in fashion and explores everything from high-end couture to underground-style scenes.

  • The Business of Fashion:

    • The Business of Fashion is a YT channel that has a global following as an essential daily resource for fashion creatives, business professionals, and for many entrepreneurs all over the world. 

  • Vogue:

    • Vogue is one of the top places to get fashion in the context of culture and the world we live in how we dress, live, and socialize; listen to and watch; who leads and inspires us. Vogue is always immersing itself in fashion, always leading its readers to what will happen next. 

  • Show Studio:

    • Established in November 2000, SHOWstudio’s innovative and ground-breaking projects have defined the manner in which fashion is presented via the Internet. SHOWstudio has pioneered fashion film and is now recognized as the leading force behind this new medium, offering a unique platform to nurture and encourage fashion to engage with moving image in the digital age.

  • HauteLeMode:

    • HauteLeMode is a YT hosted by fashion critic Luke Meagher. HauteLeMode makes the fashion industry and fashion brands digestible and understandable for the average person. HauteLeMode makes the fashion industry and brands like Givenchy, Louis Vuitton, and Balenciaga understandable and accessible to the everyday person while explaining luxury brands' histories as well as reviewing red carpets and the latest fashion shows.

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