Pull The Thread
The podcast teaches you everything you need to know to be profitable at craft-based work, and dive deep on sewing as a career choice. Join your host, Krystal Douglas - a celebrity tailor, creative entrepreneur and wild mustang tamer. Krystal took a Brother home sewing machine and a $30 craigslist desk and built a sewing business that supports a life she loves… while generating hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue each year. It definitely didn’t come easy, but this podcast is meant to help others shorten their learning curve. She shares what she's learned about entrepreneurship and business building as it applies to fashion & craft-based work, and opens up about what she wishes she knew when she first started. Go behind the scenes on every tool, trick, and business process Krystal has learned from costuming celebrities, manufacturing clothing, and selling products... so that you can stop questioning your skills, and start profiting from your work.
Pull The Thread
Your Idea Could Change Your Life. Introducing Project Fashion Forward
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This episode highlights the pain points of well-intentioned aspiring fashion designers.
If a sketch were all one needed, then anyone could be a fashion designer... But it isn't.
You don't need to know how to pattern or sew - you just need to communicate with those who do.
There are a lot of steps between making a sketch, and having it manufactured into wearable clothing...
I built you a staircase.
Fashion lines are expensive, but they cost even more to start if you don't know what you're doing.
The majority of the work happens before you ever approach a factory for manufacturing.
You can hire out the skills you don't have, but understand that your adventure buddies (i.e. pattern makers, seamstresses, manufacturers) expect you to at least bring a map before they climb onboard.
You've got work to do.
Tap into the industry knowledge needed to have a fashion design manufactured.
https://projectfashionforward.com
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