Designer are always trained with the skills of thinking about ideas, but also the ones of making things out and even how the whole marketing works. That doesn’t mean that you have to be a tailor or a manger in the future, but it do help designers to have a more completed version of what they are doing and how they can make them better. As the reading said, “you know the limits, but you also know alternative ways of making ”, I think it’s true. Designers can know nothing about skills and making stuffs, but with more skills, they can understand the process of designing better. With personal experience, I know more reality after learning about sewing skills. Before I came to university, I’ve done many immature designs because of the lack of basic knowledge. It’s not bad, but it wastes a lot of time.When you have more skills, you know what’s going to be wrong before it happens in order to avoid it. In my internship last summer, I also learned a lot. The company is small, the designer herself is also the one who make decisions and plans. I think it’s very complex to have a own brand. Except for designing, you need to learn how to communicate, fabric, textile, factories, how collections work, fashion magazines and so on. Everything can be useful. All skills can be mixed together and help each other to build a higher level of working. I think the most important part is to have an overall view about the design as well as the whole fashion area, which will give you a clear idea about how to design things.
