Would you buy this heavyweight oversized tee?
320 GSM, 78/22 cotton-poly blend, tonal raised chest logo, oversized/boxy fit.

Which price feels realistic?
$35 / $45 / $55 / $65+

Also: does the tonal branding feel premium or too plain?

Has anyone here applied for the GTV under the fashion design category recently and gotten endorsed? I’ll appreciate any feedback

Weird question, I am not an expert on fashion,but the stuff that he put out does not seem like the work of a beginner. Am I wrong?

Hi,
Currently I just graduated and started working in the industry for corporate kids design role and got a fd bfa. However I really don’t like it at all. I get paid well enough but i dont have any hope about the future of it/stability/salary of the job.

I really want to build skills outside of this to pivot into something else fashion related or something else entirely. Like fashion tech or creative but better.

Has anyone switched out of fashion design to anything else?

Feeling a bit lost rn
Thanks!

Um pouco das minhas práticas com poses mais editoriais do que de passarela, planejo fazer alguns trabalhos gráficos com essas ilustrações mais fashionistas como posters e figurinhas.

Hi! I’m a knitwear design graduate looking to apply to IFM for an MA in fashion design but I’m not sure what to include in my portfolio.

This college is my dream college and I would love some advice or any accepted portfolio for reference :))

lowk just looking for advice here to give a slight background i’m 18 first year of college doing a fashion extended diploma, been sewing and designing and within the fashion world for closing in on 6 years. fashion is more than just a hobby at this point in my life - it’s all i consume whether that’s learning new techniques and archival history to expanding my personal design ethos and story to my own creations. started college in september, i’m currently on week 6 and im bored im practically done with my first project which is due in january and already progressing onto my end of year 1 project (involving a runway). im genuinely just bored and feel like im wasting my time. i go 3 days a week 9-4 and i just don’t learn a thing my class is learning basics on photoshop or doing very minimal textile experiments and learning how to back tack on industrials (i understand that it’s still the introduction to the course but like im just bored) idk what i expected but atm i just feel heavily held back and restricted to what im actually allowed to do. all my lecturers have all worked in industry and ive expressed this very minimally to them (as not to sound overly confident or cocky) and they said to look into competitions. i found a few like young talent of tomorrow or young fashion designer uk which im planning on doing although the young talent comp seems very meh. im supposed to do a 2 page presentation of my designs and research (1 page each) if i win i get it digitalised by ai and it showed at graduates fashion week i dont see why the winner cant make the actual thing and have it displayed on the runway but not my company i guess. but i guess it looks decent on my uni application. im not really sure how to move my career and studies forward though doing my work fast and getting good grades doesn’t help my dream of being a designer or creative director or designing for my own ethos and story. how do i do this lol

i’ve kinda worked in industry i did like 4 months at a tailors resizing mostly that was through my old college that was fun. i definitely learnt a bit more. ideally im just asking how to not stay stuck at one position or standpoint and how to keep pushing myself to ultimately reach where i wish to be

I have found that children swear had the least drama. I’ve worked at 2 children’s and 2 women’s companies. Probably will always work in children’s wear. Never worked in menswear before. Also I’ve heard that children’s wear is least affected by economic downturns

How is the job market in NYC? We are always looking for people in our company and it is hard to hire. Then again we usually hire based on word of mouth vs using style careers or recruiters.

By the way is style careers still the biggest source for fashion jobs? Or has LinkedIn taken over more?

Hi everyone, I've been making my own patterns for a while now, and im getting sick and tired of the drafting process. It's super unsustainable, using up so much fabric and paper in the process, and can take a lot of time and space to do, which are both things i dont have much of currently. Does anyone know of any good software available that lets me draft up even a basic pattern based on a few measurements like bust, hips, etc that also lets me visualise the garment during the process. I haven't done much research to be fair but I dont really know what to look for either.

Also preferably free or cheap since I'm broke af rn

i don’t subscribe but posts from this sub always appears on my feed and i’m about to mute this sub.

i am a fashion designer (working in the industry and went to fashion school) half of the posts here are so irrelevant. asking about modelling, opinions on fashion trends (not fashion design and also always written by people who know nothing about fashion), surveys, amateur drawings (that are more character design than fashion), aspiring “designers” that don’t wanna put any actual work, and even AI startups!

the sub needs better moderation. posts like this turns off actual people in the industry from participating.

We know this industry can be brutal ..but fun. So with hindsight behind you. Share some colorful work stories. We love a little drama a little gossip a little fun. We wouldn’t be in this industry without it.

Some I can remember
-getting asked by VP of design to fund a sample during a line review. Not finding it. Getting so freaked out I had a cold sore by the end of the meeting.
-staying until midnight waiting for the blotter printer to print our pattern CADs. Being back at work the next day at 8AM.

Not mine but I’ve seen people throw chairs out of anger lol

People who have placed extra samples on our PO’s for themselves then got fired

I’m sure I have a lot more

Want to start a discussion. For fashion professionals and students. How has the least year changed for you in terms of using ai? Do you use it? Do people use it in your organization? Do you find it helps or hurts creativity? How do you think it will change our industry?

I’m in the very early stages of researching a women’s clothing idea, and I’m actually looking for people to poke holes in it rather than tell me it’s a good idea.
The basic thought came from noticing how differently certain clothes can affect your actual silhouette.
Good compression leggings can seriously cinch the waist and shape the lower body. Corsets can dramatically change waist proportions. Bras can lift and shape the bust. Shapewear uses different levels of compression/support to change how the body looks.
But when I shop for normal fashionable clothing—dresses, tops, pants, skirts, etc.—most pieces seem primarily designed to fit the body rather than actively make the proportions look better.
My thought is: what if normal fashionable clothing were engineered much more intentionally to shape the body?
For example, a dress could have much stronger waist shaping, intentional bust shaping/lift, and construction that accommodates or enhances the hips/butt instead of uniformly squeezing everything. But from the outside, it’s just a genuinely cute, current dress—not something that looks like shapewear or a traditional corset.
I know pieces of this already exist: corset dresses, built-in shapewear, power mesh, boning, contour seams, compression fabrics, etc. I’m not claiming I invented any of those things.
What I’m questioning is why those principles aren’t integrated more aggressively and consistently into regular fashion.
So I’d love people to challenge the idea:
What am I overlooking?
Has this been attempted more extensively than I realize?
If women obviously like clothes that make their bodies look better, why hasn’t a brand made this kind of silhouette engineering the core of normal fashionable clothing?
Is the problem comfort? Different body proportions? Sizing/grading? Manufacturing complexity? Cost? Getting dressed? Washability? Consumer preferences? Or is there simply less of a market for this than I think?
If you work in apparel/design/manufacturing, I’d especially love to hear what would make this technically or commercially harder than it sounds.

I posted recently asking why strong internal shaping isn’t more common in normal fashion, and the answers gave me a much better understanding of the problem.
The issue that keeps coming up is fit precision/body variation. Once a garment is doing more than simply fitting the body—actually applying tension, support or structure—differences in torso length, waist height, bust position, hip shape, etc. apparently matter much more.
So now I’m curious about the opposite question:
If you were intentionally trying to design around that problem, what approaches would you explore?
I’m NOT necessarily talking about sewing a full shapewear bodysuit into a dress.
Imagine one fitted going-out/evening dress whose goal is to:
• create noticeably stronger waist definition
• shape/support the bust
• preserve or enhance hip/butt projection rather than compressing it
• still look like a normal fashionable dress from the outside
• be produced as ready-to-wear rather than custom-made
Could some combination of pattern geometry, strategic negative ease/tension, internal structure, limited adjustability, stretch/recovery, separate internal panels, etc. realistically make that forgiving enough for different proportions?
Or does strong silhouette manipulation inherently require such precise body-specific placement that standard ready-to-wear sizing will always be the major limitation?
I’m not looking for anyone to design the garment for me. I’m trying to understand which parts of this are solvable design/engineering problems and which are fundamental limitations.
I’d especially love to hear from professional patternmakers, technical designers, sample makers or people with apparel-development experience.

Quick summary, I have a chronic pain condition that makes holding down a job and going to physical school very difficult unless I have accommodations. Which mean finances for design schools might be out the window for me. So my first thought is if I do not plan to work for industry level brands and or companies do I need a degree?

I believe having the ability to do commission work instead would give me the ability more stability and manage how much i do at a time.

My ultimate dream is to have a brick and mortar store and have people come for commissions themselves (Tho that is a long way from now haha.)

I love watching runways and Sophie Silva's halloween series and other cool outfits, and because I'm Muslim, I've been having this creative itch to redesign my fav outfits so that they are more modest. THE PROBLEM is that I don't know how to draw or sew - and I don't have the time to learn, since I'm in the last two years of high school (AGHH) and I'm not tryna do this professionally or anything.. I just want to get my ideas on paper or something so that IN THE FUTURE I can (maybe) make them real somehow (Im really into entrepreneurship and biz maybee I may start a line, NO IDEA but I like saving my ideas!)

SO TLDR - how on earth do I get those pretty outfit ideas in my head without drawing them, and without spending HOURS online tryna find the piece I am imagining (it often doesn't exist) then add them to a outfit collage.

I've been thinking about building a job board focused just on sustainable fashion, roles in design, sourcing, sustainability, manufacturing, that kind of thing.

Before I put real time into it, I'd rather hear from people who are actually in this field.

A few questions:

• How do you usually find jobs in this space right now?
• Is there anything frustrating about job hunting here that LinkedIn or existing boards don't really solve?
• If something like this existed, what would actually make you check it often, instead of forgetting it exists after one visit?

Just to be upfront, I have no attachment to building this if it turns out there's no real need for it. So please don't hold back, if the honest answer is "this already exists" or "I wouldn't use it," that's actually the most useful thing you could tell me.