A Career in Fashion Design + Journalism

[Infinite Regress]

Advice on a career in Fashion Design + Journalism

Hi all,
I've seen some folks here mention journalism and design as their profession, so thought I would have a go at asking.

I have a younger sibling who is 14, who is interested in pursuing a career in the suggested thread title.

May I ask what forum members would recommend as to develop, excel and gain a foot in the door of a journalism career and possibly make fashion a niche? or would it be more advisable to pursue a career in design first before trying to hustle into writing?

Furthermore, what are the opportunities and pay like for becoming an independent worker e.g. like freelancing or setting up one's own operation etc

Thanks in advance for any feedback

 

[Cognisant]

There are many self developmental benefits to pursuing a writer's craft, whereas I tend to recommend against any career involved in fashion, it's a highly superficial aspect of culture.

 

[Anthile]

The whole print sector is currently in a very bad shape all over the western world. Magazines and newspapers die in spades and it's only going to get worse. It's all moving online but the people in charge ignored online journalism for a long time and now it's going to be a painful metamorphosis.


PS: Am I the only one who read 'A Career in Fascism' at first?

 

[Lyra]

There are many self developmental benefits to pursuing a writer's craft, whereas I tend to recommend against any career involved in fashion, it's a highly superficial aspect of culture.

I disagree, and think it would be impossible for anyone familiar with the less overt and publicised corners of the fashion world to hold this opinion.

I therefore think that the superstition that fashion is superficial is highly superficial. It is an opinion concerned only with surfaces and immediate appearances.

Some of the most profound things I've ever read, or seen, were created by obscure fashion designers.


This book is one of my favorites:

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[ckm]

Schedules, pressure and a whole lot of Fe.

Not for me.

 

[Infinite Regress]

lol, its for my sibling who is an ESFP

Very happy and funny one that one. She realizes that the design industry could get very political and all the scheduling - that is why the inquiry into doing something independent but still related to fashion, such as combining it with journalism

She has started her own blog on fashion, which I think is a good initiative. Any further ideas, guys like starting portfolios etc?

 

[EditorOne]

Print journalism is disappearing, but the need for information is not. Just as railroad managers eventually figured out that their job wasn't to run a railroad but to move bulk freight, more people are figuring out that the core of "journalism" is providing information to people who need it, not "printing a newspaper." The ability to write effectively is just as important as ever, but the job might be done for little communities of niche interests rather than a general audience of the type typically served by a newspaper.