How to be a fashion designer The Guardian
FASHION DILEMMAHow do you become a fashion designer?
Back in Ye Olden Times, way back in the dim distant past when men were real men, women were real women, and jeans were for those nasty working people who got so grubby, a fashion designer had to struggle for success. Whether it be poverty, dressing Nazi wives, years of sweatshop labour under tyrannous bosses, or scraping together the student loan to get through the degree, you had to work those fingers to the bone for your success.
Nowadays? All you need is a famous relative. Tsk, Fashion Statement remembers when at least you had to have been a model/actress/whatever first. Not any more. Did you study fashion at college? Cower under the wrath of a terrifying boss? Your bad - all you needed was to be born into the right family and voila! No need to work at all. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, we present Agyness Deyn's teenage sister's new fashion line . Hear a strange rattling noise? Don't worry, it's just Christian Dior spinning in his grave.
