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Dress designer

You would have to be creative, practical, have drawing skills, communicate well, have a sound understanding of all marketing avenues, the fashion world and other business activities. Friendliness and tact are very important when dealing with clients and staff.
This career is concerned with the design of clothing in response to a recognised need or to improve existing products or produce new products. People are known for their desire for more modern, better and exciting products like new shapes and colours. Your main concern would be with the overall conceptualisation, interaction with products and the design of their appearance and you would apply your creativity and technological expertise in designing articles that are functional but satisfy the wearer's feeling for aesthetics.

There are two major fields in the clothing industry - the one is concerned with mass-production and the other with more personalised items of clothing for a select range of buyers.

In the case of mass-production, you would first research the market, study the fashion trends and design a range of clothing which you would hope would suit all tastes or as many potential buyers as possible. After cutting a pattern, it would be assembled and examined for possible faults. If it proved to be satisfactory, templates of the pattern would be cut and given to the clothing cutter. The main factors which would have to be considered would be:

* Function
* Appearance
* Cost
* Marketing strategies and competitiveness with other products

Technical specifications have to be produced plus estimated costs and restrictions on the design. After the brief has been prepared, you would work on the actual design by making sketches, models and draughts using drawings and work within the confines of the brief, available technology and the client's marketing plan. You would then present your plan to your client for approval and continue to prepare final specifications and drawings for the production of the article if he expresses his approval.


Career Fields


Art and Creative
Fashion and Accessories
Film, Television and Radio


 

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