by Krystal Douglas
It's important to know how to describe the details of your design.
But losing a semester to learning pleats, when your goal is launching a streetwear line?
That sounds silly.
Fashion lines cost more to start if you don't speak the language of the people you have to hire.
The majority of the work happens before you ever approach a factory for manufacturing.
So how are you supposed to know what to work on?
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.
to launch your fashion line.
You know you need more than passion & fashion sketches You 2.0.
Just because fashion school isn't in the cards for you doesn't mean you can't have an fashion brand.
You don't need to know how to pattern or sew...
You just need to communicate your ideas with those who do.
There's a military-grade ropes course of knowledge needed to go from sketching your idea, to having it manufactured into wearable clothing...
Start your clothing Line,
and finish it.
undeniably successful
You're ready
to become
"If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're right.
It's your thinking that makes it so."
MODULE 8: MaNUFACTURING
MODULE 6: PATTERNING & SAMPLE MAKING
MODULE 3: IDeATION
MODULE 4: BUILD A WHOLESALE SUPPLY CHAIN
MODULE 2: QUANTIFYING YOUR deSIGN
MODULE 5: FASHION TECH PACKING
MODULE 7: ADAPTATIONS, FINALIZATIONS, & GRADING
Module 1: LeARN THe LINGO
Words like 'flowy' and 'ruffly' have no place in a real fashion designer's vocabulary.
If your seamstress asked you what type of placket you want on your design, could you answer confidently? If not, this module is the heaviest-hitting one of the entire course. I teach you what the most common types of sleeves, pants, necklines, collars, yokes, and skirt shapes are called.
We take your sketch and give every design element a name, so your pattern maker understands what you're asking when it comes time to draft a usable pattern using your sketch and design specifics.
This is where you learn what design features work together, without spending money on sampling to find out it doesn't later.
If you've ever shopped at Mood Fabrics for materials to use on your samples - I hate to be the one to tell you this, but your manufacturer is laughing at you behind your back. And even worse - you're not getting any closer to ready to manufacture if you're buying fabric in the most expensive way possible.
Brands that stood standing throughout the course of the pandemic did so because they had a rock-solid supply chain at fair and repeatable prices. I teach you how to build just that in this module, for everything you could possibly need to fabricate your product.
Before you go spending hard-earned money on patterns, fabric swatches, and samples, we're doing R&D on the idea. The truth is, a lot of designs never should have made it to manufacturing.
Between timing for the right season, to catching trends, to ensuring your design will sell at a price that quantifies its cost, we're not jumping into anything that could land you at a loss a week after your collection drops.
Trying to design a garment without a tech pack is like building a house without using any power - It's gonna be really hard getting help, because you're unintentionally asking everyone who has skills that you don't to put in 4x as much work as you... every time they so much as look at your design. Tech packs are industry standard documents that protect you from getting bad product.
I teach you how to build a tech pack everyone can read, what to look for so your tech pack doesn't turn on you later, and the end result?
Your design springs off the page, and becomes tangible math for creating a wearable garment.
The most exciting part - creating a pattern and sample of your fashion design. This is the first moment you get to hold what your sketch becomes in your hands. That is, after you find out where the real pain points of your design lie. I'll show you how to order a pattern to be made for manufacturing purposes, how to check what you receive against your design before it gets sampled, and how to go about the sampling process as efficiently as possible.
This is the most critical step in getting a garment manufacturer-ready.
This is the stage where you find out how well your pattern works with your fabric choices, and what your design looks like on your model (or you)!
Don't rush this step! You'll miss critical details about fit and drape, and it'll be expensive and difficult to fix after this module.
If something isn't working in your pattern, now is when you fix it, and sample again until it's perfect. This module shows you what to look out for, how to solve fit issues so that you don't have a mistake graded, and finally, get your pattern graded so you can manufacture it in every size.
This is it, look alive, it's finally happening!! Everything you've worked for has been to get you to this step - getting manufactured.
I'll show you how to find and vet manufacturers, understand cut-and-sew contracts, and quality check your clothing line before signing on the dotted line and zeroing in on your launch date. You'll arrive at this step with a tech pack, a pattern graded across your desired size range, a sew-by sample, and a supply chain - completely ready to manufacture.
You're gonna look real silly if you try to participate in the fashion industry without speaking the language. I teach you basic phrases and words you'll need to articulate your design at a level that keeps your collaborators engaged and moving your ideas forward.
You'll get the crash course on what the two main kinds of measurements, two types of fabrics, and casual phrases that you absolutely must adopt so that you don't end up in your dream manufacturer's junk folder.
Learn only what you need to know -
Without the student loans, rambling lectures or semester long intensives.
The most successful people in the world will tell you that you don't need to understand every piece of the puzzle - you just need to know how to hire well.
But you can't hire well if you don't speak the same language as the person you're hiring.
The only way for YOU to cut through the market, and protect your design, is to stay in control of the process by learning the language of who you're speaking to - both in your future team, and your ideal customer.
After hand-making things for 20+ years, then teaching others how to build their own craft-based businesses too, I started a fashion incubator in 2020 in the midst of lockdown.
I built and scaled a small batch manufacturer until our work in entertainment fully returned (now I simply coach makers alongside caring for my artists' fashion needs).
I've project managed, consulted, patterned, cut, sewn, finished, and QC'd over 65,000 garments in those three years. I truly know every step of the process intimately.
I've seen it all - from the sketchy sketch to the 'commercial' sewing pattern that doesn't walk, to the convoluted bill of lading that would've left my designer on the hook for hundreds of missing garments had we not read between the lines & merely signed off on it.
I've gone from navigating fledgling fashion designers through their first launch, to speaking to the US Chamber of Commerce on how we do so throughout economic disaster.
There's a reason your collection is taking you forever to launch.
I can teach you how launch your clothing line in seven quick lessons.
You ready?
Why learn from me?
