Do fashion designers actually design their own clothes?
Fashion designers often use their own name as their brand name. It is a marketing tool which is meant to help create familiarity.
But that does not mean they’re necessarily responsible for every stitch in their garments.
Twice a year, every year Wellington-based fashion designer Alexandra Owen puts pen to paper and nuts out designs that will eventually hit the runway and the streets. Read more
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