Designers don't "make" anything. They design. And the renumeration isn't great. What happens is these female designers sell their designs to companies (invariably in China) run by men who then sell them at a huge markup to western women. The manufacturers make a lot of money, they get clothes they know are fashionable enough to sell in the west, and the designers get to write "designer" as their job title on instagram. Very very few of them make enough money just to pay bills.
Designers don't "make" anything. They design. And the renumeration isn't great. What happens is these female designers sell their designs to companies (invariably in China) run by men who then sell them at a huge markup to western women. The manufacturers make a lot of money, they get clothes they know are fashionable enough to sell in the west, and the designers get to write "designer" as their job title on instagram. Very very few of them make enough money just to pay bills.
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