QUOTE OF THE DAY

I have design on the brain. Design and everything that goes along with it. I recently finished a 104-week calendar to organize my life and clothing line over the next two years. Totally liberating, I'm so used to running around like a chicken with my head cut off and I can't wait to see if what I've dubbed THE SYSTEM makes my life a little simpler, or, you know, livable.

Came across this via Fashion Incubator, a new favorite quote from Verbal Croquis:

This post is for those who think fashion is glamorous. This post is for those who are thinking they may want to pursue fashion as a career choice…You think designing is easy and fun? Honey, designing is only 1/10 of a designer’s job, if you’re lucky. Ordering samples, picking swatches, making samples, overseeing fittings, schmoozing over the phone, meeting with vendors, research research research, trying to get everything to cost out to your pricepoint, edit edit edit, hyperventilate, hyperventilate, hyperventilate, lather rinse repeat but make it snappy-I want it all done yesterday. Don’t get me wrong-I love all that stuff. And I love love love my job. There’s nothing else that I want to do.

My point is that’s HARD WORK. If you’re lazy, don’t get into fashion. If you imagine yourself with your sketch pad all day, get over yourself and find yourself a sugar daddy. If you’re stupid, you will get screwed over many many times, by your vendors, by your contractors, by your very own employees, employers and coworkers.

Ain't it the truth? I learnt the hard way, blindly, fumblingly and STILL feel like I know nothing at all.