Top qualities of a fashion designer

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Top Qualities of Fashion Designer

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Fashion Design

• Fashion Design is an art of creating designs for
  clothing and other fashion accessories. It is
  the idea for creating and manufacturing of new
  clothing, footwear, accessories, apparel and
  consumers wear. Fashion designing involves the
  various skills like market research, creativity,
  drawing, sketching and fabric selections.

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Fashion Designer

• Fashion Designer is a person responsible for
  stylist clothing and this style is based on
  customer interest, place, region, culture,
  religion. Fashion designer brings an idea how a
  garment should look, converts that idea into
  design (sketch) and guide the production or
  manufacturing team how to convert that design
  into actual piece of clothing.

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Skills Needed To Become Fashion Designer
A Sharp Business Sense A Sharp Business Sense High Creativity
Excellent Drawing Ability Excellent Drawing Ability Strong Visualization Skills
Ability to Critically Thinking Ability to Critically Thinking Excellent Communication
Strong Sewing Skills Strong Sewing Skills A Competitive Spirit
Fine Eye for Detail Fine Eye for Detail Good Eye for Materials
Knowledge of Current Fashion Trends Knowledge of Current Fashion Trends Knowledge of Current Fashion Trends
Understanding of Texture, Color, and Fabric Understanding of Texture, Color, and Fabric Understanding of Texture, Color, and Fabric
Ability to meet Deadlines and Work within a Budget Ability to meet Deadlines and Work within a Budget Ability to meet Deadlines and Work within a Budget
Ability to Work in Team Computer Knowledge Computer Knowledge
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Ability to Critically Thinking

• A critical thinker always tries to bring new
  ideas and designs. A fashion designer has the
  quality to think out of box so that new things
  can be generated. He has to study the mind of
  people and their fashion need and convert them
  into reality in the form of stylist garments.

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High Creativity

• A fashion designer needs to be creative. This
  means a good fashion designer has ability to take
  something from nothing and convert it into the
  piece of art. He/she should have great sense of
  styles and constantly come with new ideas of
  fashion.

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A Sharp Business Sense

• A good fashion designer should have strong
  business skills. He has tendency to understand
  the market demand, maintain budget. He should be
  able to maintain sales, purchase, marketing,
  finance related activities associated with
  fashion business.

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Excellent Drawing Skills

• A professional fashion designer should have great
  drawing skills. Fashion designing is all about
  sketching and drawing. A fashion designer has to
  convert his designing ideas in to sketches which
  in turn are converted into garments. So strong
  designing skills are must needed for a fashion
  designer. If someone is not expert in it he/she
  should join a fashion designing course to take
  professional training for this.

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Strong Sewing Skills

• A fashion designer has to work with production
  and manufacturing team as well. He has to guide
  the workers about sewing requirements. So it is
  recommended that a fashion designer should have
  strong sewing skills so that he will be able to
  guide workers to convert design into actual
  garment.

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Fine Eye for Detail

• It is the detail that makes a product unique. So
  a good fashion designer should have brilliant eye
  over the detail. If you have good designing,
  drawing and visualization skills but details are
  not utilized in proper way the end product will
  be disastrous. So proper utilization of provided
  details is most wanted skill for a fashion
  designer.

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Good Eye for Materials

• Selection of material determines the look and
  quality of garments. So a fashion designer should
  have complete knowledge about the material which
  is used in manufacturing of garments. He should
  be capable of choosing right fabrics, colors,
  pattern, yarn, buttons, sewing threads, buttons,
  hang tags, labels and other raw material used in
  garment industry.

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A Competitive Spirit

• To become a professional fashion designer
  competitive spirit is necessary. Make yourself a
  remarkable trendsetter. Understand the need of
  market and evolve fresh ideas, creative designs.
  If you dont remain motivated it will not be
  possible for you to cater new ideas, tastes and
  choices.

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Computer Knowledge

• In the modern era most of designs are created
  using computer software. So knowledge of
  designing software is must for fashion designers.
  Fashion designers have to create clothing designs
  using Photoshop, CorelDraw, Adobe illustrator,
  Autodesk and other applications and their
  knowledge is must needed for fashion designers to
  success in modern fashion industry.

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Strong Visualization Skills

• A fashion designer has to work with lot of
  clients along with fellow colleagues. So a good
  fashion designer should have strong visualization
  skills so that you can easily present your ideas
  in front of your clients or colleagues. The idea
  translated in the form of designs will be easily
  understandable and help to move ahead toward
  finished product quickly.

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Understanding of Texture, Color, and Fabrics

• Colour, Texture and Fabrics are important
  elements of garment manufacturing. So a fashion
  designer has strong understanding, complete
  knowledge about using them in proper way. You
  cant make any cloth without fabric. Color
  selection varies from season, occasion and
  gender. So if fabrics, colors and textures are
  not selected correctly garment manufactured will
  not be a comfortable one.

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Excellent Communication

• As a good fashion designer you have ability to
  express your views verbally as well as
  graphically and should have excellent
  communication and interpersonal skills. All the
  designing processes whether it is jewelry,
  footwear, clothing or accessory designing evolves
  team or lot of peoples so what you design or say
  should be easily understandable by all.

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Knowledge of Fashion Trends

• Fashion is all about the current fashion trends.
  So to be a successful fashion designer you should
  have to keep you updated with latest fashion
  trends. Get updated with public interest, what
  people are buying and what designers are creating
  new in the market. All this information is much
  needed for fashion designers to create latest
  demand clothing designs.

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Ability to Work Well in a Team

• Fashion designing is not an individual process
  however it is a team work. A fashion designer
  should have ability to work with in a team. In
  fashion industry you have to work with fabric
  vendors, pattern makers, cutters, sample makers,
  production coordinators, sales persons, tech
  designers. Each department has its own role and
  all have to contribute collectible to bring
  overall success. Therefore a fashion designer
  should be a good team player.

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Ability to meet Deadlines and Work within a Budget

• Every fashion designing project is allocated
  budget and deadlines. So being a good fashion
  designer he/she should have ability to complete
  the assigned task with in the time and budget. A
  fashion designer has to provide best work based
  on budget allocated and manage the things
  accordingly.

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  have all the qualities as per expresses in this
  presentation.
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