I've been in the same situation as you. I liked karl lagerfeld very much when I was in senior three, and I really wanted to be a fashion designer. I wonder if you have some artistic skills? Learning fashion design requires 100% artistic skills. Maybe you don't know how to cut (a fashion master like tom ford who can't cut, you should know), but you must know how to draw. Have you tried drawing some sketches? I drew a lot of sketches. I checked before that you can't apply for the Institute of Fashion Technology without basic skills in fine arts (that is, you haven't taken a unified art test), but arts students or science students can study "Fashion Design and Engineering", which is close to fashion design and doesn't need an art test. I don't know if you are a liberal arts student or a science student. If you are a liberal arts student, I feel that this major in many science and engineering schools is not suitable for liberal arts students because you have to learn a lot of chemical physics. If you are a liberal arts student and a native of Shanghai, I strongly recommend that you apply for Donghua University's "Fashion Design and Engineering" (Shanghai didn't recruit non-local liberal arts students to study this major in my year). If it is a liberal arts student, the liberal arts student of South China Agricultural University is ok. You can check it. There are also some schools that really don't need an art test to study fashion design, like some B-type colleges. But those are bad schools. I didn't learn anything when I went there. It was really useless.

In a word, the major of fashion design you refer to should be pure and real "design", right? That major should be studied in the Academy of Fine Arts or the Institute of Fashion, which is an art test. If you are determined to join this industry, you should be an art candidate. If you are still hesitant and want to learn, you can choose a similar major, such as fashion design and engineering or textile engineering. You can check it out.

In fact, fashion design, even if you minor in college or are an amateur, can become a master without such formal "training" as long as you have potential and talent. But the risk may be greater.

In fact, what you need to do now is to really think about whether you really want to step into this industry. I once regretted why I didn't study art, but later I found that I was not suitable for the noisy fashion industry and pure art. I prefer the combination of art and business. So it may be really important for you to figure out what you want, because it is really a serious choice.