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Interviews

Here you can read the FSO Fashion Professionals Interviews. Our aim is to conduct insightful interviews which ask the questions you not only want to know but also the questions you need to know to make decisions regarding your own career directions. This means making a special effort to interview the people behind the scenes rather than only interviewing designers.

We're on the look out for interesting people working in all areas of fashion to interview (including designers of course!). If you or someone you know works in fashion please let us know, we'd love to interview you. Below you will find our ten most recent articles. You may also navigate via category:
        Designers   ( 1 Article )         Patternmakers   ( 1 Article )         Illustrators   ( 1 Article )         Models   ( 1 Article )         Students   ( 1 Article )



Canadian Fashion Illustrator Danielle Meder
in Illustrators by Annie Jackson
Danielle Meder is a professional fashion illustrator from Toronto, Canada. She is a graduate of Toronto's Ryerson University fashion design bachelor degree program and has been working for three years as a freelance illustrator. In her three short... Read more...
Swimwear Designer and Patternmaker Stuart Anderson
in Patternmakers by Annie Jackson
Stuart Anderson is a retired patternmaker and designer for swimwear and other stretch fabrics. Through dedication, passion and interest he practically invented the methods used by most stretch fabric patternmakers. Although retired he makes himself... Read more...
Lamed Baek - 19yo Couture student studying in Paris
in Students by Annie Jackson
Lamed Baek is a 19 year old fashion student on the way to a promising career in the couture end of fashion design. She has a love of couture sewing techniques and embellishments and has taken an interesting path on the road to her career. Although... Read more...
Carolita Johnson of Newyorkette.com Fame
in Models by Annie Jackson
Newyorkette (Carolita Johnson) is an ex-fashion industry escapee who now works as a cartoonist and maintains Newyorkette.com. Her cartoons have been published in The New Yorker, The Complete New Yorker, "The Rejection Collection I & II" and many... Read more...
Zuzana Kraemerová of Sartor.cz
in Designers by Annie Jackson
Zuzana Kraemerová is a special occasion and bridal designer from Prague. She specializes in historically influenced clothing and imports specialty brocades from China which she makes available for sale through her online store, Sartor.cz   1) How... Read more...
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