KAPLAN The Fashion Designer Survival Guide: Start and Run Your Own Fashion Business

If you want to start your own fashion buisness and don't know everything about it, you should definitely buy this book. It helps a lot!

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If your aim is just to be a fashion designer who makes pretty clothes that have no commercial value, and you have no intention of making a business of your creativity. Then this book is not for you.However if your objectives is make money from your designs and generate a healthy net profit, then this book is for you. The book is written in plain simple English. You do not have to be a rocket science to understand what the book is all about. The book is wealth of valuable information for the budding fashion designer who wants to set up a business and make money.The book suggests that you first set up a Ltd company and then licence your fashion label name to your company. This way you are protected if your fashion company goes bankrupt. So many fashion designers have lost the use of their name due to lack of business acumen.If you are going to sign a distribution/licensing deal with anyone make sure that you do your due diligence on the company you are signing with, and make sure that you fully understand the agreement.Copyright. Most fashion designers are not clued about what can actually be copy righted. You cannot copy right a style of dress that you have designed. You can only copyright a print design or logo.After reading this book I would highly recommend this book and give it a five star rating.

Tras ver mucho y repasar mucho todas las opciones que tenía para elegir, me decidí por este libro que me parece fascinante todo lo que te puede ayudar para alguien que como yo quiere emprender en el mundo de la moda. Super contenta con haberlo elegido y muy recomendable. Por cierto, lectura muy fácil de entender a pesar de que está escrito en inglés.

Only a reader who knows how can criticize a How-To book. Therefore, nobody who reads a book to learn How-To is qualified to review it.My reason for buying this title is to acquire an overview of the small fashion designer industry so that I might set my scene with verisimilitude in a novel I am writing about three young women who form a company. Leslie has access to unlimited funds and a degree in corporate law, Fei Di has a family with global mercantile distribution, and young Hedy is a small town artistic genius who will design everyday apparel and make the patterns. For my purpose, Mary Gellhar's compendium explaining the operations of the rag trade answers all my questions, after several other purchases proved inapplicable.Ms. Gehlhar's book is not intended to teach wannabee's How-To do anything, but to tell what a small entrepreneur needs to do well to survive in a business competitive as a dinner party for piranhas. Giving a line to each topic in her check list will extend 5% of the book's length. What a wannabee cannot do for one's self must be outsourced to trustworthy hirelings. The Fashion Designer Survival Guide is worth reading by everybody who dreams of building socio-economic independence in one's own business. Anybody who survives the gauntlet has an education superior to multiple doctorates in the industrial arts, business administration, and cut-throat politix --- and much more practical.The 8" x 10" soft cover is well bound, well printed, well organized, well edited for its conversational voice, well illustrated with drawings and photographs, many in colour, and well laid out to fill its 275 pp with all the information that can be packed without compromising ease of reading. Never mind aspiring couturiers, anybody with a How-To manuscript to publish can benefit by submitting to KAPLAN in New York; consider their editorial judgment a standard to achieve.