Fashion+Designer

**Fashion Designers creat new fashion styles and reinvent old ones by designing different type of clothings.**

Career Description: Fashion designers must have technical knowledge as well as an eye for trends. They produce detailed drawings of their ideas and make precise calculations to determine the amount of material needed to create their designs.There is also an important business side to fashion design. Most designers work closely with businesspeople, marketers, salespeople, and individual clients to produce clothes that suit the current trends rather than just their own personal tastes. This requires a lot of research, so designers attend fashion shows and review numerous fashion magazines to determine what the most popular styles are.

Skills Needed: There are more skills needed, but those are the most important.
 * An eye for color and design
 * Drawing and sewing skills
 * Basic math skills
 * Imaginative
 * Creative

Education: Even though there are no specific educational requirements for a career in fashion, most designers have a bachelor’s or associate degree in fashion design, fine arts, general design, fashion merchandising, or a related area of study. Many fashion designers gain hands-on experience by training with experienced designers for a number of years. They may start off by doing simple jobs like cutting patterns, and gradually work their way up in the industry.

Salary Information: Designers at the top of their profession can earn well over $200,000 a year. But those who are less well-known or just starting out in the field make much less. Most earn between $32,000 and $131,000 a year. The national median income for fashion designers is around $64,000 a year. Designers who work for small companies generally have lower salaries than those who work for large ones. But those who work in smaller companies tend to have greater creative independence.

Job Outlook: Over all this career choice for me is a must do.I plan on having my own clothing line out in the near future.

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