79.FASHION CLOTH DESIGNER JOB

Fashion designers work on the design of clothing. Some may focus completely on a specialist area, such as sportswear, children’s wear or accessories. The main markets they design for are haute couture, designer ready-to-wear and high street fashion. Developments in technology mean that a designer ready-to-wear product can be produced as a high street version in just a few weeks. Depending on level of responsibility and the company, a designer may work to their own brief or be given a brief to work towards (including specifications in relation to colour and fabric) and develop a product from this.
The main areas of work for fashion designers are high street fashion, where the majority of designers work and where garments are manufactured in their thousands. Influences play a key role in this design process and the turnaround of 'young fashion' in particular can be quite rapid. Ready-to-wear. Many designers will also produce ready-to-wear collections, although these are produced in relatively small numbers. Haute couture. This requires large amounts of time working on the production of individual garments.
Tasks depend on the market the designer is producing for, but core responsibilities are creating/visualizing an idea and making a sketch by hand or using computer aided design (CAD), analyzing trends in fabrics, colours and shapes, keeping up to date with emerging fashion trends, planning and developing ranges, working with others in the design team, such as buyers and forecasters, to develop a product to meet the brief, liaising closely with sales, buying and production teams to ensure the item complements other products, developing a pattern that is then cut and sewn into sample garments, sourcing, selecting and buying fabrics, adapting existing designs for mass production, supervising the making up of sample garments, overseeing production, negotiating with customers and suppliers, managing marketing, finances and other business activities if working on a self-employed basis. Experienced designers with larger companies may focus more on the design aspect, with pattern cutters and machinists preparing sample garments. In smaller companies these, and other tasks, may be part of the designer's role.