A fashion mood board created by Los Angeles fashion designer, Delaya Briscoe. Using references of 1970's fashion and style, the Black Panther Party, Pam Grier, black women with afros, classic Cadillac coupe devilles and New York summers, the images come together as a celebration of strong black women despite the struggles around them. The edge and strength is in the black and brown tones and the warmth and joy is brought on by the orange and yellow. Using leather, fur and other textured fabrics, combined with the color palette, this mood is great for fall and winter fashion.
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Project: Black Fur Purse. I'm making a custom designed first purse for a client. See how a design comes to life and look at the steps it takes to be a fashion designer, from style research, trending and conception.
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Working a day job and a side hustle is a bit stressful and overwhelming. It becomes even more difficult when you hate going to your 9 to 5 everyday. Here are 5 ways to take that pain away and make work fun again.
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When working on freelance job after freelance job and project after project, sometimes you can get burnt out and overwhelmed; sometimes you'll get stuck in a creative block - much like writers block - and can't get inspired to keep going. Here are 5 easy tricks to do that will get you out of a creative rut and help you get inspired again.
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When you’re in college and start the fashion design program, you get so excited about learning how to make clothes. When you finish the program and go off into the industry, you realize that fashion school didn't teach you everything you needed to know about business, production and sampling. I know it was a steep learning curve for me, so I'm sharing 5 things that fashion design school didn't prepare me for when I entered the fashion design industry.
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This Project Runway Season 15 challenge was another unconventional materials challenge. The fashion designers had to shop at a farm supply store in Texas and rummage through vintage music things and party things. The idea was to "Keep it Weird".
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This week's challenge on Project Runway Season 15, the fashion designers were to make an avant garde look using fabric and unconventional materials of metals and chains.
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The fashion designers of Project Runway Season 15 had to design a power look inspired by an aerial view of New York.
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Freelancing is normally linked to graphic design but it's also done in other creative fields, like fashion design. After not being able to find much information on it, I made a short list of possible fashion design freelance jobs that might help to get extra money on the side.
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This week on Project Runway Season 15, the fashion designers, who've been closed off from the world for weeks, were able to see their moms or best friends and were required to design a new look for the next chapter in their visitor's lives.
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For this challenge, designers were split up into three groups of three and had to design a cohesive collection of three looks inspired by a Mary Kay make up palette.
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