Fashion designing

TRENDS AND CHALLENGING FASHION!

Getting qualified in fashion designing or a related field from a good institution is necessary in today’s competitive scenario.

Whether you are aspiring to be a fashion designer for the fame, name and fortune it has offered to some, or for its sheer glamour, its time you realized that, this is serious business! Where, in the past fashion designers were often regarded as glamorized tailors, today their realm of work calls for tasks that are much more challenging and competent. They not only conceptualize, design, produce and promote a new clothes line or accessory line that are trendy, ready to wear and saleable, but often influence public opinion and change tastes and sensibilities with them. Working in close quarters with production, sales and marketing departments they create apparels for manufactures specialty and retail stores, and at times, individual clients. Renowned fashion designers very often specialize in a specific line of clothing such as sportswear, women kids, bridals, and so on.

QUALITIES

Having a good eye for colour, style and shape, an ability to sketch, creativity, knowledge of computer assisted designing, ability to judge fabric quality, good business sense and awareness of fashion trends and forecasts, are a must for fashion designers to survive in the sphere. In addition knowledge of manufacturing and production process, persistence, ability to deal with ambitiguity and rejection and finally the psyche to handle stress owning to deadlines become attributes that help them makes it big in the fashion world!

QUALIFICATION AND TRAINING

While many contend that fashion designers are born with a knack for designing others insist that skills can always be learnt through training. Getting qualified in fashion designing or a related field from a good institution is necessary I today’s competitive scenario. It equips one with knowledge of textiles, variety of fabrics and makes one aware of business and marketing practices in the profession. Attempting to put down one’s ideas on paper as rough sketches, educating oneself about different designers and their styles and enlightening oneself about the fundamentals of cutting and sewing, are great ways to supplement training here.

JOB PROFILE AND CAREER AND CAREER PROSPECT

Creating a good portfolio for oneself is necessary to bag a job in the world of fashion designing. Updating one on the latest fashion trends, scanning through fashion magazines, attending and participating in fashion shows and working with other designers in projects are some ways of maintaining ‘new’ footing in the industry. Designers use sketches, notes, discussions and samples, to convey the vision of their creative design to tailors of craftsmen often employed by them professionals make a beginning here as Assistant fashion Designers who work in the field. Many others change to alternative fashion careers from, costumes designing, personnel styling, modeling, writing for illustrating for fashion magazines, retail to becoming retail store managers or Boutique owners.

POS AND CONS

Qualifying to be a fashion designer is the easier part. Sticking it out through the easier part. Sticking it out through the initial phases with faith in one’s talent, through cut-throat competition and seasonal slowdowns in the trade, is the more difficulty aspects. Yet opportunities for talented professionals in the career are plenty, with a steadily growing fashion conscious public and their steadily growing incomes name and fortune will come to professionals to this sphere… but only if they are diligent and super-creative!