{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Fashion Designers Get Paid: Build Your Fashion Career On Your Own Terms","title":"SFD078 Working with Factories as a Freelance Fashion Designer","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3215,"description":"There are a lot of different paths to becoming a freelance fashion designer. And Heather Royer took one I’d never heard of before. Instead of working directly with brands, she got her first freelance opportunity designing for a factory in China. The best part? There are ways you can create the same freelance opportunities for yourself, and she shares step by step her best advice to do this. In her 20+ years in the industry, Heather has worked for brands like Target, LL Bean, REI and Talbots. She now runs a team of 9 full time fashion designers located around the world while working remote from her home in south Florida. And it all started with one freelance gig from LinkedIn. In the interview (which you'll love) we will cover: The simple change you can make to your LinkedIn profile to attract brands or factories looking for freelancers How to turn one freelance project into many to get more work and make more money What brands are looking for when interviewing and hiring freelance fashion designers How to give your opinion and feedback about design without sounding pushy or negative Why staying in touch with past coworkers and industry friends can make or break your success (even if you’re uncomfortable “networking”) What Heather’s transition from working as an employee to working freelance looked like and how you can do the same What Heather learned at her first (big!) freelance project for a Chinese company How she made the decision to start hiring designers to help her The skills Heather looks for in her own freelance candidates-for-hire How Heather runs her freelance business and the freelancers that work for her FROM 4H TO FASHION Heather Royer has created a job for herself that is unlike anything we’ve heard of before here at Successful Fashion Designer. But like most fashion designers, fashion was just a hobby in her early life. But she did get an early start! Heather was in 4H when she was little (the kids club that does hands-on projects surrounding...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/aKuVxL8JmweBENlQ3ijRBkKP2y4MyoOXJoGtd_pgZ84/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS83MDEx/Y2M3YzBjYTI4NTM4/ZWNjY2QzNDUyZTY5/N2VhYi5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}