You forgot to mention that fashion brands who employ you in the first place ,use your designs and then throw you away like unnecessary garbage.

The 1 dislike is the fashion industry getting exposed

Designers! Remember we are all customers, we can make a change for a more sustainable fashion!

I wish you had more subscribers, as a 15 y/o who aspires to be successful in this industry, I cannot tell you how many unanswered questions I've had about this industry until I found your channel. You're really underappreciated, I just love your videos.

As Gabrielle Chanel once said "If you want to be great, be ready to get copied"

My first lecturer had a saying, “imitation is the best compliment” the other thing he used to say was, “any publicity is good publicity”

Ugly truth #6 Do NOT go into fashion to make money. 😂😂 Fashion companies are like super rich one day and dead broke the next day (but the show must go on so they don't ever let on).

Great explanation.. I like how she thinks with the 5 ugly truths. I am deaf and have a degree in fashion design.. I want to reveal the world that deaf can do it in fashion.. Thanks for show your educational inspirational video.. I love the word sustainable, we need to do with them to save the planet and animals.

Hey hey party people.l love it when she says that!!

I’m 11 and you are the reason I will be able to eat and shower when I’m older 🎀💕

You are a good fashion official and leader. You have the human element and empathy.

I wish you were around when I turned my back on the fashion industry after a horrific internship at a fashion house. I had so many questions- so much frustration -so much anger. Your insight would have been SO helpful. Well I'm glad you're here to help others. Keep up your amazing work. Thanks

I love sewing, and I adore vintage and lolita fashion. Some day I hope to make dresses myself and get a cert III in fashion design and tech here in Aus

Refreshing to hear such blatant honesty about an often glamourised industry! Would love to hear more about how you feel the rise of social media is possibly changing the fashion industry - it seems that online fashion critics and commentators such as yourself are gathering a lot more influence and able to produce unbiased and analytical content such as this without worrying about maintaining relationships with certain brands and companies etc.

Love your channel and I'm not even anything related to the fashion industry (stem). You really make it easy for non fashion people to understand what goes into fashion and I learn so much from your channel!

Love your videos! I'm in my 30s and finally taking a chance in fashion design after putting it off for years cause I was scared. I like that your honest and straight forward.

THE ACCURACY!!! Especially the part about waste; it was really a huge eye opener to be in lectures about this at college (humble brag, but LCF is really out there with sustainability. I love my college.) , and it really has drastically changed the way I design. So, thank you Zoe for using your platform to spread that message!! As always, I really enjoyed this video, and it made me realize I do need to start making changes to ensure I don't fade into the background. Networking is something I struggle with, but I will definitely try a lot harder to push myself!

Thank you Zoe for these truths. Also, if any designer wants to just jump right into sustainable fabrics, they could. My Bay Area sustainable sportswear brand serves as a hemp advocacy. My #hempInEveryCloset mission is my passion. There's so much education to do in sustainable fashion, that you must be passionate about it. I appreciate your videos.

First of all... you're not ugly. we are all beautiful amazing powerful beings, create your power look

Omg I had to giggle at "his whole karl lagerfeldness" comment 🤣🤣🤣 you're too funny zoe.

My teachers say basically the same as you but it's really great to see your point of view in all of this! And it just goes to show how everyone involved enough in fashion is aware of those ugly truths. I only found out about some of them after entering college, and I was so grateful for the awareness around fast fashion. Thank you so much for your videos! I'm watching you from Brazil :)

I've been feeling really disillusioned with the fashion industry lately. I'm in the process of finding an internship for next semester right now, and it's been nearly impossible to find an internship that doesn't violate labor laws or my rights. All the internship jobs I find are either doing the work of an actual employee for no pay, or doing menial labor that won't give me any experience (also for no pay!). The industry is built on exploitation, and I had hoped I wouldn't get thrown into it like this. I wanted to be one of the people going up against this kind of thing. I feel like I'm selling out! Anyone else had to suffer an internship you didn't agree with or want to do? Did it change your view of the industry? And are you glad you stuck with it?

What an important video! Thank you for being real. The copying thing is painful lol. We did a project in collab with a company that designs for other brands (some well known ones even!) and they told us to make a benchmark and look at well selling garments and then (gasp!) copy them and change a bit :/ and apparently that's what most well-known medium and lower priced brands do

Soo true!! Getting copied sucks, but it obviously means you’re doing something right if people are copying you!😅

I ❤️u Zoey ! 👏 I hate the Ugly Truth #4: CONNECTIONS! 😡 So many great talents/designers are stepping back only because of not having “The Right Connection “ . and unfortunately many struggling designers just can’t afford to connect because it’s expensive. ☹️

I’ve worked in the fashion industry for almost a decade now, since I was 22. (Oh and I am 29 now) it’s so different here in the Philippines, as a fashion designer it is so hard to work with the stylists here. They never return our garments on time ( worst case) they never return our garment forever. People use you, and yes Crabmentality is popular here in the Philippines. They don’t give you credit for your work.

It is so nice to have somebody like you on this platform who has a open outlook on the fashion industry, I’m not sure what I’m pursuing but the fashion industry is definitely something I love and would love to look into more. I’m just beginning to create pieces and it definitely helps out the new artists to look to you.

I'm not in the fashion industry but i've been a subscriber for some time because of videos like this. I always learn things and wisdoms that I can apply in my personal life and work (though not fashion related). Thank you, Zoe.

Ethical manufacturing should be a must and a brand should deal with manufacturers who imply with regulations uplifting labour situations located anywhere. The bulk of clothing manufacturing takes place in under-developed countries, and we should make sure the conditions of the factory are well enough and min wage requirements are being adhered to.

I have come across your channel recently and I am so grateful. I am 57 and I want to learn to sew and create clothes for me and your videos are so helpful. Thank you.

Zoe, I'm so glad you mentioned the sustainability aspect! In one of my fabric classes I learn some of the big businesses decided to go green or just do better. They learned there was a bonus in for them. They SAVED money! It's actually LESS expensive, for example, to use LESS water and energy in the processing of fabrics (Go figure). I'm telling my age but when I was growing up there was a commercial where someone through their fast food garbage out the car window. It landed on the feet of a Native American with tears running down his face. That image had a huge impact on my life. Since then I'm all about everything I can do to protect the planet, resources, and environment we live in. I love making something new out of clothing from beautiful fabric I don't necessarily want to wear or my kids grow out of or someone gave me.

Thank you for this video Zoe! This answered questions that basically gave me closure. The way you broke it down especially about the copying, humbled me in the name of fashion, as long as I get to do what I love, that’s all that matters ️

OMG... internet and its rabbit holes... the story of how I ended up here... I was thinking about replicating a business idea I saw on the news a while ago about a collaborative capsule closet which keeps getting key pieces being added and where people can not only rent more casual clothes, but also "subscribe" for weekly/monthly plans. It would serve in theory individuals who like trying out new clothes and also people who are maybe trying to find their style - people who feel they are not confident/creative enough to play around with fashion ideas and end up wearing the same thing. It would be a space for people and maybe professionals like personal stylists to bring clients... anyway... just thinking and researching and then one thing leads to another and youtube suggested me your video. I was very happy. At first I started with the capsule wardrobe term search and somehow I ended up here. You just got a new subcsriber. Amazing content. Thank you for sharing.

Argh. "Being visible" ... so true. So delicate endeavour. Great video Zoe!

Zeo first off thank you for making this video. The topic alone had me having to subscribe to your channel. Second for some reason what you were talking about had me thinking about some clothing design ideas that I have had over the years. Don't fully know why just that it happened. Too bad I can draw them up or make them. Not good with pen and paper and lack the level of skill to sew them my self. Still going down that memory lane was fun so thank you for that. What I do know is that your step by step is true on all levels when it comes to doing something. So I am going to keep trying to find a way to get my ideas out of my head and onto paper so that others can see them.

Sensei Zoe, this is why I love this channel. Educational, with a big reality check. I didn’t even consider these aspects of the industry.

I love this video. Somehow your video, How to Become a Fashion Designer, ended up on my video list and I instantly clicked on it. Working on my second life and I want to learn the basics of designing clothes. You said a couple of things that I wholeheartedly agree with: fashion, to me is more about a look than someone looking pretty/beautiful. I'm always drawn to a person's look rather than their physical features. And for runways, again, to me, the runways aren't for the regular joes, well if the regular job is rich, then maybe, but they are more for the celebrities. I want to be more adventurous in designing clothes and creating a look for myself and go from there.

I’ve always been a fashionista since i popped out of my mother’s womb! I refused to let anyone dress me even as a young child. I’ve always wanted to have my own clothing line & it’s so easy for me to get overwhelmed, i won’t even like looking at my graph paper or have a relationship with my sewing machine. I’ll just spend hours at the fabric store drooling over fabric. You really help fashion/sewing mountains look more like speed bumps! & take the anxiety out of the not so glamorous side of it. Thank you so much!!!

Yeee! Shout out to the Bay! Thanks for the video. Fashion isn’t the only industry that has some dirty secrets. With how available information is today, we can’t continue to claim ignorance as an excuse to not make changes.

I love how real you are

This is great! "If you're doing anything cool, there will always be people trying to steal your thunder." So true.

You really make EVERY video I want to see related to fashion and I know many people here feel this way. Thank you so much Zoe. :)

Zoe, thank you for being here and helping us all understand the fashion world better! 😊

I'm a 32 year old straight black man and found it days ago I love your channel a partner of mine wants me to help him sell and make tee shirts but I think a lil different and have no professional fashion experience other than being pretty fresh myself but I can draw and know what hot and your channel helps me know how to translate what my mind is thinking and talk to someone that's knows what there doing and not sound like I'm brilliant but know absolutely nothing and fashion it self for this I thank u 👏

You’re such a Realist! 🔥 lol Let’s go have drinks

Thanks Zoe for sharing your honest view points ...I am a new member in fashion world I wish to learn about it..my passion I discovered that my heart and soul is creative and I tired to pushed it away initially in my life beginning due to family demands but recently after much much years pass by and with so much collection of mine in sketching, writings, art work, roaming throughout many countries bi realised I can contribute to fashion and also to my heart who is crying from years to be part of this world..

Zoe, you are so right... I've been slogging it as a designer for over 15 years, and as a bridal designer for 10 years... It's bloody hard work with sometimes no reward.

1. Copying is typical 2. People prefer a designer with personal style 3. Creativity doesn't sell compared to things easier to wear 4. You need to make ties with people or things that are famous to be acknowledged 5. So much waste in the industry

quite insightful, thanks a lot. my main takeaway is to focus on wearable everyday clothes. nice one

SO SO happy you mentioned waste production as one of the ugly truths!! Thank you for being real!!!

Back in the day when I was a professional theatrical costume designer, I was contacted by a big dancewear company to do some freelance designing for them. The problem was that I was given a very small price point per design and a catalog of their fabrics and trims with their wholesale costs and then told to design a fabulous costume for under their price point. As I had always dealt with a total show budget, I had no idea how to approach this so I politely declined the offer.

You cracked me up with your realistic attitude towards this industry. Your delivery is entertaining but have useful contents. You're like the sister I wished I have to get advises from. Love your contents, please please keep going and create more of these videos.

Thank you for this video Zoe! This answered questions that basically gave me closure. The way you broke it down especially about the copying, humbled me 😂 in the name of fashion, as long as I get to do what I love, that’s all that matters 🤷🏽‍♀️

Thank you so much for this Zoe! Your videos are the absolute best! I want to study fashion design, and I often think about these "ugly truths" which make me sad about the industry I want to work in. But this motivates me to create my own sustainable, innovative and ethical fashion brand! ❤ Thank you again for your very "real" videos. Greetings from Mexico! 🇲🇽

Hello Zoe, I love your videos. I have been working as a graphic designer and visual artist for past 4 years. I had an opportunity to work for a fashion designer for 6 months and i absolutely fell in love with fashion. I will try to learn more about fashion this year. Your channel helps me alot. Thank you

Omg ! I just found your channel and love it ! Just subscribed!! So informative and educational. Luv ya

Another healthy daily dose of Zoe B-vitamins - so good for the soul and creative body. Thank you! For your followers: to her point about a "look", look for a recording online of Terrence McNally's play Master Class about opera singer Maria Callas. Fantastic! Somebody will be glad they did. This channel of yours is definitely a Master Class and is immensely enjoyed.

You make a really good point with runway shows...in the past, they were for showcasing your clothes to editors and buyers. But now, with department stores closing, magazines going out of print, and many celebs doing their own clothing lines, I wonder how these design houses manage to keep up with costs while also making couture? There's so much more competition because of social media as well. Many jobs in the industry have evolved. It's strange to me...my dream was to be a magazine editor...hmmm.

This is my favorite channel! I love, love love your tutorials, I have an AAS and a BS in Fashion Merchandising and Design. I learn so much from your tutorials. I can't get enough

I knew some of these facts... but you really open my eyes so some other that I had no idea.. thank you. Love your contents

In this time of the global pandemic, I have to share that those blue and white masks are totally washable! Please help save the earth and keep washing those masks, don't just use them once and throw them away. I guess unless they are just so super icky, yeah, then toss them responsibly. But they can be washed over and over, just don't use hot water or a hot dryer, and no fabric softener. I wish there was a upcycle garment design from those masks. Crazy idea I guess. You inspired that idea, Zoe.

3:19 I appreciate you trying to make ugly people feel better about themselves, but the truth is, there are ugly people, they know something is wrong, and it just is not fair to pretend nothing is wrong when it clearly is. It's not just you. Lots of people do this. They pretend nothing is wrong. I just wish there was a way and a place to deal with the ugly problem legally. We should be talking about why we are ugly, and how to change it.

Zoe as usual, you're right on point! I Love the way you shot down the myths that so many people have about designing , your upfront and frank frank discussions are vital for anyone who's thinking about a career in a tough industry.

I love it cause I'm in Texas and I dress casual. Every day is something new to do. I combine, gothic, steampunk, prep, and punk to create something that you could see for miles. And I love it because every knows that I'm not scared

The sustainability aspect is one of the reasons I'm so hesitant to entering the industry. Not to mention the unemployment rates. In my country the no1 occupation of people with a high level design education are unemployed and then no2 is shop assistant..

After watching two of your videos, you have so much of my respect!! You have the right mindset on how to navigate not just the fashion industry but any industry in general! I’d love to be mentored by you lololol

I've just discovered your channel, and thank gawd, you're very cool!

Zoey, I really needed to hear this. Thank you!

Good Morning Zoe ~ An excellent project to put out ! ~ ! ~ Thank you ~ Jennie ~ My thoughts ~ Live by your own motto and agenda, not to seek the approval of others, they might stifle our creativity !

your videos are so informative and I love the ground perspective that you share. I always find myself coming back to this channel for advice and I think it's because you strike an excellent balance between being encouraging but not dreamily optimistic, and being critical but not elitist.

in every career , there are pros and cons . you have to remind yourself why you started

Thank you Zoe for those great advices. The first advice apply to me I m afraid to put my designs online media because I’m afraid that they will steal my ideas, but now you gave me another view. Everything you explain is true. I want to be known in the world and start network.

Zoe, it's almost like you read my mind sometimes! I learn so much from your videos. Love them so much!

You are a BEAUTIFUL mind Zoe Party Girl!!! LOVE LOVE LOVE ALLL YOUR CONTENT❤️ I am a Fashion ‘Remodeler,’ I take pieces from stage one to stage......’Remodeled’ Love the Boho- Chique-CowGirl looks-- yes, enviro friendly😉keep up YOUR “PARTY” ZOE!!!!

correct like I am a fashion designer at Balenciaga and like people copy my own designs I just ignore them

This video made me energetic and motivated. Thank you so much. May God Bless You.

I just wish I've watched your videos when In started my degree 8 years ago. Your videos are so helpful and I love how realistic advice you give

This video was great. An honest account of what obstacles one can encounter! Thank you, Zoe!

I really like this video ~even if I already noticed ugly truth number 1 to 4 , it's still interesting and inspiring to know your opinions. and number 5 is really resonate with me. I have work in the textile-related company in Taiwan for long time and I totally know how the environment being harm because of the waste caused on the process of producing fabrics and garments. but I'm also happy to notice that there're some people and company still try their best to find some thing new ( new material which can biodegraed ...etc) try to make this industry better.

I will continue to watch your videos and plan on ordering many items from your shop this week your my Guru 🙇‍♂️

oof Zoe I love your perspective!! I'm a few years into sewing clothes and really crave this type of knowledge. I so appreciate it!!

Hey Zoe, I am glad you mentioned what creativity truly is in designing. It reemphasized my utility outlook on fashion. Whenever I make something I have this natural tendency of thinking- but does it really have a purpose. This is a good video! :)

you are such an interesting person to listen to and watch !

Very interesting. In my "industry," (law) we are expected to copy from others. Pleadings and motions aren't really thought of a having unique, artistic value. I would like to think that my legal writing is interesting and beautiful, but that is probably just in my own mind. (I'm cracking myself up right now.)

Brilliant and informative video as always. 👌🏻👌🏻

I appreciate you Zoe ❤❤

You are so real and I like you! I'm starting to watching you more and more. Reminds me my youth in the fashion industry. Please tell your followers to watch "The devil wears Prada". This movie show the real true about egocentric, pathetic, narcissist top designer. LoL.

Thank you! I was always wondering why fashion designers create crazy dresses. And I mean CRAZY dresses. Now I understand more.

Maybe the fashion aftermarket popularity is a way to move toward less pollution and waste in the fashion industry. Good quality thrift stores,I mean.

You help me so much! Thank you for existing!!

Wow! Super smart advice. Very intelligent. Humor and truth as well as logical real-ness. Love your channel. I'm a new faithful subscriber.

Thank you legend for this video and all your videos. You are freaking amazing and I love you and your videos and I wish you the best in all your endeavors.

❤❤ I love how open, honest, and educational all your videos are!!! Keep up the amazing work!! ❤👗🎨

I'm so glad KZfaq recommended you, great content - Thank you x

what a super video, as a fashiondesigner with my own label for more then 11 Years now I just can agree 1000% to you Videos. Btw your Videos are a big big big rolemodel for me thank you so much!

More and more I love this channel ❤

Thank you for bringing these things up! :) Loved tip number 5.

You are fantastic love your videos!!!

You are an answer to prayers. I wanted a mentor for a long time

Thank you for everything inspiretional youtube channel