but iv been wondering if there is a mentoring program that offers fashion design that i could attend without being a college grad or attending college. if anyone has as information please email me it would be extremely helpful.

…because I'm in the fashion industry helping start ups and have written several times about how to find mentors since I do a lot of that. You're right, it's enjoyable. The most recent entry I wrote on the topic is called How to find help in the apparel industry for nearly nothing. The problem with finding a mentor is you are equal to your five closest friends. Think about that for a minute. Consider:

Are your five friends successful designers in the business? Or are they just like you, stuck at the starting gate? It’s fantasy to believe you’ll get lucky meeting the right people while stuck in an elevator. In real life, you can easily find and make friends with people who are most like what you want to be or who are at the point where you want to be for nearly nothing.

Having connections is not an accident; anyone can acquire them as a matter of intent -chance favors the prepared. That means you’ll have to join their turf, people most able to help you aren’t hanging out in free forums or message boards because they are [also] looking for people who are at their level or above it -not below it [to solve their own problems]. There are a few garment industry forums out there but because these are public and anyone can join, no one posts proprietary information so there’s no useful give and take. The paradox is that because they are public, they stagnate and fail to grow. There’s very good reasons why people with proprietary information don’t post in public and it has nothing to do with selfishness or fears of competition… The difference between you and people you want to be like is that they have already figured out that they won’t find what they’re looking for wherever it is you’ve been looking.

The truth is, those in a position to mentor you, are also hoping to be mentored themselves. Like attracts like, you have to hang in their turf. If you go through the hurdles of joining them, you're already a level above the 95% of the crowd and others will take an interest in you because you've taken an interest and done the due diligence to join them.

-Penelope