Despite having tailored my brand aesthetic a little more, I was still afraid that the whole concept of basing my designs of moods was a little vague. However, I showed my professor the idea and I'm glad to say that it seemed to make perfect sense to her! So that's a start. I also came up with a solution for the "What's next?" chapter, which would be to simply attend a course or get a degree in shoe design after or during college, before I go about doing anything else. It's a pretty obvious answer, but I think in the past I've always believed in my designs enough to think that I could do without any help, but the more I think about it, the more I'm starting to realize it's a slightly foolish and naive idea. I think it all goes back to what I mentioned briefly on my first homework assignment for the class, when we were asked what activity made you completely loose track of time. My answer was that few activities did, since I'm always very conscious of the time. After all I don't have much of it, so it can't be wasted. However, I suppose it would be an even larger waste of my time to launch a brand only to have it possibly fail due to personal incompetence.
