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I ‘LOVE’ FASHION!!!! I have so many designs that I’ve come up with, but the only thing holding me back is that I can’t draw to save my life. I am the only NON-ARTISTIC person is my family, and of course I would choose to be a fashion designer -___-….

I have a book full of designs, but what I do is find similar clothing on games, and websites, and then I trace them. I don’t trace everything only the parts I really like. For example, to draw a dress that I designed, I found a dress online that is similar to the one I pictured in my head. Once I traced the outline (or parts of the dress I liked) I then looked for another dress and traced the shoulder part of that dress, onto the first dress I have. Then once, I am done I design everything myself. So basically I trace pieces of clothing and add them together to make one design.

I don’t know if this is really designing, I mean I only trace the clothing, but I design them to look TOTALLY DIFFERENT from other clothing, and I add pieces from other clothing, therefore making it a totally different garment. But what I really would like are the answers to these questions:

1. Can what I do (tracing and adding different parts together) and then designing it myself, count as designing’

2. Do I really need to know how to draw to go to a fashion school, or do they have classes that can teach me’

3. Do all fashion designers NEED to know how to draw’

4. In a fashion school, do they teach you how to sew as well’