Remote Fashion Design Consultant & Startup Mentor in London

Looking to start a fashion business in the UK? Have a passion for fashion design? Have you spotted a gap in the market? Or do you have an inspirational idea for a niche product that you must bring to life? No idea where to start? Need expert help and advice?

While some new fashion entrepreneurs may be trained fashion designers, many of our clients have no training in the fashion business whatsoever. They need the help of a freelance fashion design consultant. They may be truly inspired fashion designers, overflowing with ideas and full of talent, but have no idea where to start, how to communicate their ideas, or how to bring them to market.

We provide a one-stop solution for small fashion businesses, starting with our fashion design consultancy service. We also offer a full sampling service, tech pack design, small production runs, mentoring, advice, fashion startup workshops, and weekly webinars. Whether you have just one product or concept that you would like to bring to market, or a collection of designs, we can help bring your designs to life.

Our highly experienced design team offers a flexible and creative fashion design consultancy service for new and established clothing businesses in London and throughout the UK. Our fashion design studios are based in South East London. Our clients come from all parts of the UK, including England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, and indeed from Eire. We can work either face to face or remotely via Skype, post, texts, images, and email.

Some of our clients come to us with no fashion training whatsoever. They may have a background in banking, architecture, or marketing. They just have an inspirational idea that they would like to see brought to life. Some of these clients want us to re-imagine their ideas and to present them in a clear and professional way. They may also want to make use of our comprehensive sample development and production services.

Every fashion brand needs an identity, with a strong brand story behind it. We can help you build your brand identity, which has to prevail throughout the brand with colour schemes, logos, typeface, and fonts. This corporate identity needs to be on the garment labels, swing tags, packaging, and correspondence.

The untrained fashion designer has no idea where to start, how to source fabrics, who to go to for sound advice, or even how to put their creative ideas onto paper in a way that can be easily understood. They need someone to take their design inspirations and creativity and make practical sense of them. An experienced freelance fashion designer knows how to present those ideas and can compile proper technical drawings that can be interpreted accurately by our pattern cutters.

Research is a very important and time-consuming part of the job, involving researching trends and competitors. Designers tend to buy a lot of clothes to use for inspiration for their own designs. The ability to sketch is essential if you want to get good pattern interpretations and accurate samples.

It is essential for a fashion designer to have a good eye for detail, as it is often the little details that make a big difference to the overall design. If you want to employ a designer, consider whether you want them to be full-time or part-time, freelance or employed. Normally startups would be employing a part-time freelancer.

The importance of research cannot be overemphasised for a fashion designer, especially for a freelance designer who will not be surrounded by other fashion designers and colleagues. A fashion designer's job is very diverse, and freelance fashion design is a highly competitive field.