I have no original ideas and I don't know what to design
I love fashion and have spent a better part of the last 5 yeas learning about the industry and history. I feel like I know so much about many designers and so much about fashion history. For some reason, I can't seem to apply any of that knowledge. When it comes to drawing and designing my own clothes, i go completely blank. I will admit that my drawing skills aren't the very best and I'm working on that. Sometimes that's what's holding me back from actually executing my vision. But the other thing is none of my designs are original.
Everything is a copy of what I've learned of someone else. Mixing and matching and copying is how you create new things, but the mix and match is the problem here. I feel like I'm not actually a creative person and that part doesn't come to me naturally. And because I'm lacking in creative ideas, all I can do is copy. I'm stuck in this trap of just recreating designs I've seen and loved without adding my original spin to it. I feel like I'm not able to alchemize my ideas and turn all that inspiration into something that's uniquely my own. Has anyone else run into this problem?