Fashion Design Consultant

Location: Lambeth

Overview 243. Looking to start a fashion business in the UK ?

Have a passion for fashion design ?

Have you spotted a gap in the market ?

Or do you have an inspirational idea for a niche product that you must bring to life ?

No idea where to start ?

Need Expert Help and advice ?

While some new fashion entrepreneurs may be trained fashion designers, many of our clients have no training in the fashion business whatsoever. They need the help of a freelance fashion design consultant. They may be truly inspired fashion designers, overflowing with ideas and full of talent. But no idea where to start, how to communicate their ideas, or how bring them to market.

They may need to hire a design consultant to guide them.

We provide a one-stop solution for small fashion businesses, starting with our fashion design consultancy service. We also offer a full sampling service, tech pack design, small production runs, mentoring, advice and fashion startup workshops, and weekly webinars
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Whether you have just one product or concept that you would like to bring to market. Or a collection of designs - We can help bring your designs to life.

Our Fashion Design Consultancy Services. Our highly experienced design team offers a flexible and creative fashion design consultancy service for new and established clothing businesses in London and throughout the UK.

Our fashion design studios are based in South East London. Our clients come from all parts of the UK, including England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. And indeed from Eire.

We can work either face to face, or remotely via Skype, post, texts, images and email. This is surprisingly efficient and effective.

Some of our clients come to us with no fashion training whatsoever. They may have a background in banking, architecture, or marketing. They just have an inspirational idea that they would like to see brought to life.

Some of these clients want us to re-imagine their ideas and to present them in a clear and professional way. They may also want to make use of our comprehensive sample development and production services.

Other clients would like us to provide a complete design service for their brand identity.

We have specialist fashion designers and sample developers in all aspects of menswear, ladies wear, and children swear.

We have designers for most areas of clothing design - Functional and ergonomic wear, swimwear, sportswear, lingerie, tailoring, active wear and streetwear for example.

Every fashion brand needs an identity, with a strong brand story behind it. We can help you build your brand identity. That identity has to prevail throughout the brand with colour schemes, logos, typeface, fonts.

This corporate identity needs to be on the garment labels, the swing tags, the packaging and the correspondence. It needs to be everywhere that the product is.

The branding needs to reflect the customers own lifestyle as much as possible.

Our In-House Design Team. You may have no real interest in fashion design, but just have a great idea for a clothing product. In that case you will have no problem with giving out part of the creative process to our design team.

You would be advised to gather together as much inspiration as you can from existing garments and images so that we can piece together your designs.

The Untrained Fashion Designer. The untrained fashion designer has no idea where to start, how to source fabrics, who to go to for sound advice, or even how to put their creative ideas onto paper in a way that can be easily understood.

They need someone to take their design inspirations and their creativity, and make practical sense of them. An experienced freelance fashion designer knows how to present those ideas.

They know what works and what doesnt work. They can take your design direction, and tweak your ideas, or suggest workable solutions that you cant see.

A professional designer can compile proper technical drawings that can be interpreted accurately by our pattern cutters.

Our clients have many questions :

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• Where Do I Even Start ?
• How Do I Bring My Designs To Life ?
• How Do I Get My Design Ideas Across ?
• Where Do I Source Fabrics From ?
• Who Can I Trust To Interpret My Designs Accurately?
• How Much Will It Cost ?
• How Long Will It Take ?

How To Sketch Your Design. Our designer clients may know exactly what they want when they see it, but often they cant sketch their designs with any confidence. Just think how complicated it is trying to describe even the simplest idea in words only.

A picture says a thousand words - Being able to draw your designs is essential if you want to get good pattern interpretations and accurate samples.

We at The London Pattern Cutter, often have clients who try to describe just a small detail of a design without using a sketch.

There then follows a series of long, convoluted emails trying to discover exactly what the designer really wants.

Fabric And Trim Sourcing. Sourcing fabrics and trims can be a really, really time consuming part of a fashion designer s job.

But an…