#fashion designer
Fashion designers create, design, and manufacture apparel and accessories for the film, theater, video, modeling, and retail industries, such as jewelry and handbags. These individuals may be self-employed or employed by garment and fabric firms.
While some designers work on all areas of clothing, others prefer to concentrate on specific categories such as menswear, sportswear, or formal dress. They also dabble in handbags, jewelry, accessories, perfumes, headgear, winter wear, and costumes, among other things.
The primary functions
The most typical functions of a Fashion Designer are as follows:
Create men’s, women’s, and children’s clothing and accessories:
Possess the ability to create clothing that is casual, informal, formal, and business-like.
To develop notions, you must be able to sketch and articulate ideas through sketches.
Create clothing that can be mass-produced with a variety of fabrics, colors, and designs.
Produce creative designs using their artistic touch and garment experience.
Make changes and improvements to the designs.
Design ordinary clothing as well as special and high couture clothes for fashion shows.
Define garment technical specifications and be familiar with textiles, patterns, shapes, and colors:
Choose and test a variety of fabrics.
Understand how to create patterns and how to combine them.
As needed, create patterns.
Different sorts of fabrics are cut, sewn, knitted, and pinned into clothes.
Work with other experts (buyers, merchandisers, and technical personnel) to conceptualize, plan, and produce new styles that are in line with current trends and demand:
Good ties with suppliers and distributors are essential.
Each season’s design work will be directed by you.
Analyze sales volume and develop items that support the company’s goals.
Keep up with the current fashion trends and techniques, and seek for the highest-quality fabrics:
Visit stores, investigate online and in periodicals, and attend fashion events and textile fairs to discover and analyze current and emerging fashion trends.
Oversee the measurement and fitting process in collaboration with the Design or Production departments, and convey any necessary changes:
Lead sizing sessions and approve any design-related manufacturing items, such as colors, fabrics, and cuts.
Examine prototypes to ensure that they are consistent with the brand.
Fabrics, cuts, and other materials must be organized and managed.
In the event of mass production, keep track of the garment output.
Ensure that delivery deadlines are adhered to.
Set up sales presentations and take part in them.
Tasks for each day
To create functional, inventive, and high-quality designs, combine expertise gained from using certain goods, market knowledge, observed trends, and collaboration amongst diverse designers.
To express an idea, use sketches.
Work with a variety of fabric types.
For the approaching seasons, look into trends, colors, textiles, and silhouettes.
Calculate the expenses and supplies needed.
Establish a supplier and distributor network.
Ulyana Sergeenko is a world-famous Russian couturier. Designers all over the globe refer to her fashion as “babushka-style”, because Sergeenko is very enthusiastic about Russian culture and history, which is quite visible in her collections. Sergeenko’s style is very elegant yet grandiose. She is renowned for her high-waist grand skirts, the use of floral prints and such materials as silk velvet and fur. Sergeenko combines her gorgeous dresses and skirts with mostly floral shawls, just like any Russian babushka does :)
We recommend checking out Ulyana’s fabulous personal style and her haute couture collections.
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Elie Saab Couture Fall 2015
Ralph & Russo Couture Fall 2019
I think it’s pretty dope to be able to walk around in something that a friend of mine custom made from scratch. Thanks Ibe !
Black Celebrity Fashion Designer: Mugzy Mcfly
Black Celebrity Fashion Designer: Mugzy Mcfly
New York fashion designer and entrepreneur Jevaughn Williams, better known as Mugzy McFly, has made his childhood dream come true with Signed By McFly. Bronx-based fashion guru has worked with celebrities like Maino, Doja Cat and Post Malone and was chosen to enter the GRAMMY Awards this year. He owns pop-up shops to highlight BIPOC’s independent designers in the area of fashion and is a source…
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Sulli modeling for the South Korean designer André Kim’s fashion show in 2010
TOM FORD, the one & only
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Hussein Chalayan, 2011, Rizzoli, 276 pages.
This was printed at the time of the fantastic exhibition Hussein Chalayan, récits de mode at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, one of the best fashion exhibitions I’ve ever attended - and it’s no surprise that this is one of the best books on fashion I’ve ever seen, both in content and design.
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Taslima Ahmed for house of CDM AKA my mentor. Her collection was talked about quite a bit at Manchester fashion week and now she is getting a lot of interest internationally.
She is looking to go to London and Birmingham next, exciting times.
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