I did a lot of dress designing and sewing in my teens and 20s. I learned how to draft the patterns at high school and I actually enjoyed that part more than the actual sewing, but I used to make up the design just to see what it looked like in reality. Back then I made most of my own clothing, and being quite a fashionable little miss, I always felt quite smug that all my clothes were original designs and I wouldn't see half a dozen of me at the "discos"..lol...
I did consider studying fashion design, but life got in the way, and over the years I got a bit tired of it. Now I can't be bothered. I don't have any interest in fashion anymore, and I'm quite happy to buy off the rack from my local shops. I'm now retired and I thought about taking up my old hobby, but I just don't have the interest anymore, plus I don't have the skinny bitch figure I used to have, so I don't get the same joy out of clothes now..lol...