Fashion Designers: 5 Affordable and Alternative Ideas for Showcasing Your Fashion Collections!

The runways of NY Fashion Week are the pinnacle of all things glamorous and can turn fashion designers into industry darlings. However, it is also a very costly production and may not be the best place for a new designer to launch their line. As much as I love, love, love seeing shows during Fashion Week, I don't recommend that new designers spend that kind of money to get their designs seen so early in their careers. This post will give you ideas for alternative ways to showcase your fashion line during Fashion Week (or any time of year!).

Putting together a Fashion Week runway show can be very expensive. It costs at least $30k to show at NY Mercedes Benz Fashion Week. You need to have proper funding to pay for the: space, models, hair, makeup, set design, lighting, photographers, videographers, plus the cost of your actual designs, among other things. In my opinion, new designers shouldn't be doing runways shows until they are making enough money to sustain normal business activities plus the cost of putting together a Fashion Week Runway Shows.

Fashion Week Runway Shows are the best platform for established leaders in fashion innovation. There are over 100 shows in NY during Fashion Week and it's hard for Fashion Editors and Buyers to make it to all of the well-known designer runway shows. If you are able to hold your fashion event close to where the actual runway shows are taking place, it makes it easier for editors and buyers to stop in and attend.

Wherever you decide to have your fashion show, be sure to have someone videotape it so you can post it on your website and blog (and so the fashion bloggers can do the same thing for you!). Live video-streaming is also an excellent option for your fans and clients who live out of town but still want to support you and "be a part" of your fashion show!

Here are a few ideas that can be used for a more cost-effective fashion presentation:

1. Do a fashion installation in a hotel suite. You can have models standing in the room that's put together like a chic fashion shoot set wearing your most exciting and show-stopping designs for editors and buyers to walk around and see.

2. Throw a cocktail party at a popular local lounge that features a few models in your designs to launch your line. You can invite lots of friends, family, buyers, bloggers, local boutique owners and press to attend and you will also have some of the location's regular foot traffic to rely on.

3. Are you an early-bird? Consider hosting a small invite-only breakfast buffet at a cute local restaurant where you can do a fashion show. Both women and men love free food and the fact that it comes with entertainment (your fashion show) is an added bonus for them!

4. Is there a great neighborhood garden, park or local museum that you could negotiate using as a space to showcase your designs?

5. Many colleges have fashion shows, especially around homecoming time. Could this be another way for you to get your designs seen?

Krista Carter
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Source of Ideas For a Fashion Designer

If you are one of the modern lady tends to keep up-to-date with all the latest fads and styles then you would keep watch the the changes in Fashion. Fashion design is big business and it has moved from certain clothing and colors to the way tops are worn and dresses are fitted. It is beyond the mere pretty clothes.

A good Fashion designers have one thing in common. They give the latest and best to the market especially for the ladies. Of course, by doing so, they make money for their business or profession. Fashion designers got their ideas from everywhere and source such as customers, suggestions even complaints. These information when articulate form an idea for their fashion design. These information are only one source of input to the fashion designers. They must get more ideas from difference angle and sources. Example, they will attend all sorts of fashion show, exhibitions, even window shopping. They will look around and wonder aorund shopping mall, fashion boutique etc. Once an idea trigger their thinking, they will figure out and tunr the idea into a fashion design sketches.

A Fashion Design Sketches is like a piece of fashion ideas in the form of a sketch. It allow the design to visualize how the design ideas look like and allow his to make changes and modification to come out with yet another design sketches.

The difference between a man on the street and a fashion designer is their ability to use their imagination and see beyond the physical state in front of him. Together with the imagination and creativity, designers are able to turn an ordinary piece of idea into an attractive fashion design sketch.

About the Author: Dr. LM Foong, PhD
He writes and publishes articles and blog in the areas of Fashion for the ladies to upkeep their taste and beauty. Get more tips from Fashion Design Sketches