Jasmine Isabella | My Take On Fashion

One of the major sections of the self employed people is the costume and fashion designers. Costume designing is a section of the fashion designing, where the fashion designer has to design costumes for the characters in a film or for stage artists etc. If you have a flair for fashion designing and want to become a costume designer, then you can be the one who will be part of the production team and will be responsible for enhancing the personality of the characters. Here is how you can become a costume and fashion designer.
1.Start planning at an early age and try to learn sewing from the ladies in the house or ask your mother to send you to a local tailoring class to learn to sew. Skill of sewing is a must for a costume designer.
2.Whenever you watch a movie or a program on television or in a theatre, pay close attention to what is worn by the artists. Take deep interest in the how the design of the clothes is different as per the character being played by the various artists.
3.There is requirement for a costume designer at all the levels of entertainment. Get yourself into a local theatre production unit and make your way ahead. This make you get familiar with the drawbacks that you have and you will get experience. By the time you are into big production houses you will be very well trained.
4.Another important thing that a costume designer ought to know is how to sketch and draw the designs to show the idea he/she has about the outfit and accessories design. He/she must be know how to accurately draw the body and quickly too. He/she must know how to colour and shade the dresses in the picture they draw so that the person who is looking at it gets impressed or wants any changes they can be done quickly.