Fashion Designers
Design clothing and accessories. Create original designs or adapt fashion trends.
Sample of reported job titles:
Apparel Fashion Designer, Clothing Designer, Costume Designer, Dance Costume Designer, Designer, Fashion Designer, Historic Clothing and Costume Maker, Latex Fashions Designer, Product Developer
Occupation-Specific Information
Tasks
- Direct and coordinate workers involved in drawing and cutting patterns and constructing samples or finished garments.
- Examine sample garments on and off models, modifying designs to achieve desired effects.
- Sketch rough and detailed drawings of apparel or accessories, and write specifications such as color schemes, construction, material types, and accessory requirements.
- Confer with sales and management executives or with clients to discuss design ideas.
- Identify target markets for designs, looking at factors such as age, gender, and socioeconomic status.
Technology Skills
- Accounting software:Financial accounting software
- Analytical or scientific software:SAS software
- Computer aided design CAD software:Autodesk AutoCAD Design Suite,Autodesk Revit,C-DESIGN Fashion,CLO Virtual Fashion Marvelous Designer,Computer aided design and drafting software CADD,Fashion Toolbox,Optitex 3D Suite,Patternmaking software,StartingAClothingLine.com Digital Fashion Pro,Trimble SketchUp Pro
- Desktop publishing software:Adobe Systems Adobe InDesign
- Development environment software:Adobe Systems Adobe Creative Suite
Occupational Requirements
Work Activities
- Thinking Creatively:Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions.
- Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships:Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
- Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work:Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
- Getting Information:Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
- Judging the Qualities of Objects, Services, or People:Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people.
Detailed Work Activities
- Build models, patterns, or templates.
- Collaborate with others to develop or refine designs.
- Conduct market research.
- Conduct research to inform art, designs, or other work.
- Coordinate design activities.
Work Context
- Contact With Others:90% responded"Constant contact with others"
- Indoors, Environmentally Controlled:90% responded"Every day"
- Structured versus Unstructured Work:83% responded"A lot of freedom"
- Electronic Mail:80% responded"Every day"
- Level of Competition:80% responded"Highly competitive"
Worker Requirements
Skills
- Active Listening:Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
- Critical Thinking:Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
- Active Learning:Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
- Coordination:Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
- Judgment and Decision Making:Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
Knowledge
- Design:Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.
- English Language:Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
- Production and Processing:Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.
Education
How much education does a new hire need to perform a job in this occupation? Respondents said:
- 36%Associate's Degree (or other 2-year degree)
- 25%Some College Courses
- 24%Bachelor's Degree
- 9%First Professional Degree - awarded for completion of a program that: requires at least 2 years of college work before entrance into the program, includes a total of at least 6 academic years of work to complete, and provides all remaining academic requirements to begin practice in a profession.
Worker Characteristics
Abilities
- Oral Expression:The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
- Oral Comprehension:The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
- Originality:The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.
- Deductive Reasoning:The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
- Fluency of Ideas:The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).
Interests
- Artistic:Artistic occupations frequently involve working with forms, designs and patterns. They often require self-expression and the work can be done without following a clear set of rules.
- Enterprising:Enterprising occupations frequently involve starting up and carrying out projects. These occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business.
- Realistic:Realistic occupations frequently involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.
Work Values
- Achievement:Occupations that satisfy this work value are results oriented and allow employees to use their strongest abilities, giving them a feeling of accomplishment. Corresponding needs are Ability Utilization and Achievement.
- Independence:Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to work on their own and make decisions. Corresponding needs are Creativity, Responsibility and Autonomy.
- Working Conditions:Occupations that satisfy this work value offer job security and good working conditions. Corresponding needs are Activity, Compensation, Independence, Security, Variety and Working Conditions.
Work Styles
- Attention to Detail:Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.
- Innovation:Job requires creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems.
- Dependability:Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations.
- Initiative:Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.
- Adaptability/Flexibility:Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace.
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