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Becoming a Fashion Designer. Tips on Starting a Fashion Design Business.

We get hundreds of visits from Fashion designers at Vogue Fabrics Warehouse. Over the years, I’ve gotten to know a few dozen of them personally and I have come to learn a few things about what they do well and what mistakes they make. I have especially learned that fashion design and having an apparel line is not an easy business. But once you learn the tricks it can bring a lot of satisfaction, purpose, esteem, fame, and hopefully- profit. Recently, we were visited by a young designer who was just starting her business.  After working with her for many hours we were able to fill her inventory needs. At the end of her visit, we both agreed she had made the right choice in visiting us instead of making dozens of appointments with vendors in other cities' garment districts. Our access to several dozen fabric types, constructions, and styles, some with continuity and some novelty, ended up being our strongest advantage as a source for fabrics.  Undoubtedly, she could have saved...
Thank you to Maria Farhatt and Jenna Compton from SingleNeedle for their recent post interviewing Sean Sussman, one of the owners of Vogue Fabrics , as well as Vogue Fabrics' primary buyer. SingleNeedle is a new design and apparel resource service in the Chicago area providing information to fashion designers.  Vogue Fabrics is proud to be featured as a resource for wholesale fabrics, notions and trims to the Chicago fashion industry. Here is a link to their blogpost: Bootstrap Vogue Fabrics offers "wholesale to the public" on two sites: VogueFabricsStore.com    &    WholesaleFabricsStore.com The former offers wholesale and retail, while the latter is exclusively wholesale for quicker browsing and special novelty options. If you are a start-up designer, or you are opening a fabric store, and you would like to get started shopping with Vogue Fabrics, contact Sean@WholesaleFabricsStore.com for more information, or just visit our sites.