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As a NYC fashion designer, Natalie Nizhny has traveled to Europe and Asia for shopping, researching trends, and manufacturing. In her 14 year career, she has gained a lot of insight in the fashion industry, and has trained other designers with her extensive knowledge of the global trend market. Due to popular demand in response to her advice and design training, she partnered with designers Lourdes Perez and Kristin Cruz to form a free ... [More]

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• Designer Tips For Fashion Styling - Mix and Match Your Way to Chic
  [Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Fashion-Style] When people find out that I'm a fashion designer, aside from the cliche assumption that I design and make my clothes (which I don't!), they usually presume that I have a particular clothing style and that I spend a lot of money when I shop for clothes. In reality, neither of these misconceptions is true. I don't have a defined fashion style. The way I dress depends greatly on occasion, location, season, current trends, time of the day, and my mood. Many times, I'll actually use fashion styling to get myself in a certain mood. When I'm asked for styling advice, I'll reply with "How do you want to feel?"



• Fashion Career Specializations - a Breakdown
  [Business:Careers-Employment] Coming straight from fashion school, you might be thinking that as a fashion designer; you'll have the opportunity to work with all types of clothing. What you may not know is that generally, the fashion industry is split into categories, and then categories within categories. Basically, the fashion industry is very specialized.



• Fashion Design Skills 101 - Skills That Fashion Schools Don't Cover Nearly Enough
  [Reference-and-Education:Vocational-Trade-Schools] In fashion school, most of your time was spent learning to create fashion illustrations, draping, sewing, and flat patternmaking. While these are good skills to have, they aren't very practical when you're trying to land your first job in the fashion industry. In the real world you'll be expected to know how to create computerized flat sketches, develop garment specs, CADs, and presentation boards.



• Fashion Design As a Career - The Truth That No One Told You
  [Business:Careers-Employment] So you've decided that you want a career in fashion, and maybe you're even about to enter the real world with your portfolio full of stunning fashion illustrations and a head full of hopes. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but that glamorous perception of the design industry is a myth, and that vision of yourself as a famous fashion designer with your own clothing line is almost close to impossible to reach. The actual chances of that are probably the same as becoming a movie star.