Literary tale-teller keeps home for fashion designer (8)
I believe the answer is:
milliner
'fashion designer' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps there's an association between them I don't understand?
'literary tale-teller keeps home' is the wordplay.
'literary tale teller' becomes 'miller' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'keeps' means one lot of letters goes inside another (inserted letters are kept inside).
'home' becomes 'in' (to be in is to be (at) home).
'miller' going around 'in' is 'MILLINER'.
'for' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for milliner that I've seen before include "One making pork-pies" , "Women's hat maker" , "trader" , "Maker of women's hats" , "Felt cutter perhaps" .)