You would need lots and lots of education on design and fabrics as well as art to be able to really make sensible designs that could even possibly be made into good-quality dresses. If you are planning on designing and creating the dresses yourself, well, I sure hope that you went to a good art/design school and have a degree. You could hire someone to work for you, but you better be really close to that person because if all you are going to do is draw designs and make that person do all the work, then yeah, it will cost you tons and tons of money. If you really have a strong interest in this, I suggest going to a local boutique and personally talking to the designer there.1. Why are girls clothes nicer more comfortable and softer than men's clothes?Probably because men tend to not care about fashion as much as women do. Women always tend to have more options when it comes to clothing than men. Women have t-shirts, long sleeve, tank top, spaghetti strap, halter, strapless, and then shorts, capris, long pants, skirts, dresses. ..and do not even get me started on shoes! So see? Women have lots of clothing choices compared to men, so it would only make sense that the clothes were nicer, more comfortable, and softer than men's clothes!2. What Is the Future of Sustainable Fashion?Fashion brands are embracing unique ways to create more sustainable products. Premium and value fashion brands are developing new ways to create clothing out of recycled products in an effort to reduce waste. While buying vintage or used clothing has been on the rise, designers are working to develop practices that create less or no waste using materials from fresh ingredients or recycled goods. For example, Vin Omi, a British design team that's dressed former first lady Michelle Obama, has been harvesting its own crops for clothing from horseradish plants and chestnuts. The brands' latest clothing collection includes items made from recycled paint containers-all in an effort to make products more sustainable. Other designers have begun using items such as old refrigerators and waste from the sea, with the hope that in the near future the fashion industry will be able to use fiber-to-fiber recycling-where a piece of clothing is unraveled and turned into a new piece of clothing. It is not only luxury fashion brands that are making public efforts to end fashion waste. The notably Earth-conscious brand Patagonia created a 100% recycled polyester fleece sweater. The fibers in the sweater are made from recycled soda bottles, waste, and other former clothing fibers. Synthetic polyester is one of the most harmful materials for the environment, though it is also the most widely used synthetic fiber. The fleece sweater retails for $119, an average price for a Patagonia sweater-demonstrating that sustainable products can be created at no extra cost to the consumer. Patagonia's sustainable clothing is in addition to the brands upcycling resale marketplace, Worn Wear, that lets customers trade in worn brand clothing for store credit according to a Gartner report. Sustainable fashion has a long way to go, but the industry is beginning to make strides as more brands and customers embrace environmentally friendly products and shopping habits. Brands hoping to create recycled goods can look to companies like Vin Omi or Patagonia for ideas on going green in fashion.3. Why are some Lakers fans still bitter about Championship Loss?The Lakers were favored to win the championship last year, especially after the cruised thru the West in dominating fashion. Everyobdy thought the Lakers were a lock to win last year. Pretty shocking how it turned out for Laker fans. I assume it hurt so bad the only way to cope is to down the celtics forever until they meet in the finals again4. I was thinking. Fashion is just a cycle.fashion is a cycle as they say history has a tendency to repeat itself5. Fashion Industry Under Scrutiny After Prada And FIT Display BlackfaceThe Fashion Institute Of Technology (aka FIT) and Prada are both under scrutiny as the entities have displayed shows containing blackface fashion. The latest incidents had their own models being part of the problem and the solution to the historical use of the racism behind blackface. FIT Is Getting Into The Bottom Of This. The Fashion Institute of Technology is currently conducting an investigation regarding a fashion show after one of its models, Amy Lefevre, refused to wear accessories regarded as racist amd blackface. These included oversized plastic monkey ears, oversized plastic lips, and prosthetic eyebrows. Lefevre stated: The show flaunted the work of ten alumni of FIT's MFA class in fashion design. It was also heavily directed by professionals in the fashion industry. These are professor and department chair (Jonathan Kyle Farmer), creative director of Names LDN (Richard Thornn), and FIT Alumni (Junkai Huang). While all parties included have reassure the public of their ignorance regarding the racist undertones of the show, it is hard to believe. New York and Britain are two very diverse regions; as two of the fashion capitals of the world, they are exposed to diversity in a daily basis. However, racism still exists in the industry. Which is why before FIT, there was Prada. Prada has recently agreed to diversify its workplace as a reaction to a two-year-old blackface controversy. Two years after being called out for attempting to sell controversial monkey-like trinkets, the company's representatives are required to attend a racial equity training. Said class will revolve around a syllabus containing topics of anti-discrimination, diversity, and inclusion. According to the agreement with the New York City Commission on Human Rights, the company also agreed to hire more people of color in its retail stores and to a fashion-based scholarship program directed specifically to minority groups who wish to make their marks in the world of fashion. Nevertheless, it might take more than just money to amend the company's racist behavior. The incident in question was brought to the public by New York resident and civil rights attorney, Chinyere Ezie. She took pictures of eyebrow-raising dolls found in a Prada store at Soho, Manhattan, as she was coming home from Washington DC's Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture. Despite Prada insisting that the dolls were not meant to be a reference of blackface, the fashion giant was still given a cease and desist order from the NYCCHR. Unfortunately, racism's tenure in the fashion industry has been active for ages. Fashion Goes All The Way Back To The Nazis? According to author Tansy Hoskins, companies Chanel and Dior were known to work with the Nazi and Vichy governments back in the 1940's. Coco Channel has been exposed in the past as a Nazi agent who worked for the Third Reich. While Christian Dior never claimed to be a Nazi sympathizer, he was known for having a clientele made of wives and mistresses of Nazi officers. The problem is that fashion tends to appeal to majority groups by borrowing designs and separating them from the meaning behind them; this is known to having serious consequences. An example of this is when GQ's 1999 then editor, James Brown, was forced to resign after including Nazis in the magazine's issue as part of the stylish men section. These fashion companies, including Prada, were founded during a time where anything other than whiteness was not the norm. Since traditions are known to stick, experts argue that fashion's racism today is allegedly due to ignorance. Is Ignorance Truly An Excuse? Parsons professor, Kimberly Jenkins, believes that "it's a lot of ignorance and people not growing up in a space where there's a whole lot of diversity." Jenkins states that while Italy is full of immigrants, fashion companies are still largely white. As a result, ignorance has turned more into a factor for blackface in fashion when Gucci's CEO, Marco Bizarri, said: And while it is fair to say that not all companies are aware of intercultural atrocities, they are sill expected to know better. Mainly because as enterprises that happen to have retail stores outside of Europe, someone in their staff must be able to recognize the wrong behind these fashion statements. Fashion is a global avatar; it represents people on an international scale. European fashion houses are currently all across the globe. Nevertheless, beauty and cultural awareness are still not all inclusive. Racism in the establishment is quite subtle, like the fact that few stylists know how to style black hair. Prada's blackface figurines are actually quite similar to characters from the Jim Crow-era minstrel shows, meaning that the image of blackface is in fact part of the public record. Is ignorance truly an excuse? It's not. It would not hurt these companies to do a little more homework