What are good ways to get ready to be a fashion designer when you're only in middle school?

Answer 1

This is a wonderful question! Drawing and sewing are essential but you should do the best you are able in all your classes at school. Art and history are important to understanding style and how things change and to get ideas from previous times. Composition and public speaking are important to communicate with clients and customers. Math and science are important to understanding the proportions and measurement of materials and the properties and strengths of the materials you will use. Modern fabrics and dyes are chemicals; cloth and thread and wood and plastic and metal used in clothing are governed by the principles of physics just like every other material. Some people have biological reactions (allergies) to different substances; some people have different psychological reactions to the colors and shapes that are perceived. The best designers understand that there is art and engineering and business in the fashion industry. Learn as much as you can about everything.

Answer 2

Learn to draw. Begin to design outfits. Learn to sew. Make clothes from patterns - then make clothes from four different patterns put together. Then draw your own pattern pieces.

Study other designers works. Go on line and look for original fashion sketches. Adapt the styles to your own. Then try to create something totally new.

School can teach you the mechanics of business and design. Only you can teach you the passion and the creativity and the style. Start working on those.

Answer 3

Get a sewing machine and learn to sew doll clothes. Seriously, it's the best way to start at a young age and your get practice working with the sewing machine.

Next take your ideas from the drawing board and actually start sewing the clothes. Have your parents take you to buy the fabric that you image the clothes being made out of.

If you don't have sketches buy some patterns and start sewing from them.

The best way to do it is just do it.