Working Conditions of Fashion Designers

Video Transcript

"A lot of fashion designers design out of their home. It's really about feeling safe, feeling like you have no one that to your creativity, you don't have to worry about your music or anything like that. I know personally I usually blare classical music and a lot of my best designs I think happen in the middle of the night when all the world is still and I feel like my mind can kind of just flow freely. So even if I had a studio, I probably wouldn't be there at two or three o'clock in the morning when I jump out of bed and just have to work with that fabric that I had picked up. So I think a lot of designers are based out at home. Some have their own home studios which I do have something comparable to that which I enjoy and utilize daily. I joke that I work twenty four seven because even when I'm not working, I'm thinking about work. I try to save at least three to four hours a day and then I usually do three to four hours of administrative requirement work; whether that be marketing, on the phone with people, sales reps., boutiques, personal clients. Sometimes the personal client conversations can last hours and hours especially if it's a couture garment or a garment for a wedding. Client relationships do take up a lot of the day as far as administrative work. But I would say my day, if I were to bottle my day in to a forty hour week, it would be half a day doing administrative things and the other half sewing. And then the rest of the time when I'm off work is thinking about work, so twenty four hours a day."