Are You Actually a Fashion Designer?

Fashion design isn’t a service industry — but sewing has been one for centuries.

If you know how to sew, people don’t ask for your ideas — they ask how useful you can be. In this video, I talk honestly about using alterations and service-based sewing work to pay the bills while slowly building credibility as a designer.

I spent years doing hems, custom work, and luxury alterations — not because it was glamorous, but because it taught me skills most designers never get. Fit, people, communication, pricing, and business fundamentals all come from service work.

This video is for:
• Designers frustrated with only getting alteration requests
• Sewists who want creative freedom but need stability
• Anyone trying to build a fashion career without corporate backing

If you’re strategic, alterations can fund your creativity — not limit it.

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