People tend to have misconceptions about what it takes to operate in the Fashion Industry. Most of these misconceptions stem from certain mindsets about what people think rather than what it actually is. So here I am debunking the various myths people have about fashion and the industry as a whole.

Whilst some aspiring designers seem to think being able to sketch is good enough and being a fashion designer is the perfect escape from a busy 9 to 5 job, others think we designers are a bunch of people who couldn’t really cut it in university or worse are just jobless people who will soon wake up from whatever cloud we always seem to be floating on. And I don’t really blame them, some of us who operate in the industry give them this impression because we are too busy chasing irrelevant things to realize that we are running fashion businesses. And what happens? We become the perfect template of why fashion designers or the industry is too unsafe a haven for potential operators or investors.

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