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What is fashion design? Is it a good field for me? What should I know before taking up this career?
- Silver
- Feb 1, 2022
- 3 min read
Updated: Feb 17, 2022
Fashion Design is a very competitive field of work. But the era has changed from competitive to a collaborative form.
Collaboration between the designer and artists, investors and fashion stylists, photographers and the influencers, so in many such varied ways fashion design has made its collaborative connection.
It is also one of the fields that will never go out of a need for a consumer.
Fashion says a lot about a person, status, likings, expressions, so it is proven that it is a timeless, limitless, and strong field of exploring, developing, and catering to every status consumer.
Fashion design includes steps of learning that include fashion illustration, market research, elements and principles of design, fabric understanding, creativity for design ideas, presentation skills, drafting, sewing, a manipulative and constructive mind for forecasting, and fashion business.
Becoming a fashion designer is a challenging job. One needs to be ready with forecasting ideas and developments. A fashion designer has great openings in this field.
You can work for yourself, cater or provide your services to under-mentioned markets.
High street
Own a Boutique
Start a Label
Work with a Fashion Designer
Start a Manufacturing Unit
Private Exhibitions
Participate in common Exhibitions
Work on seasons
Become a Stylist
Become an Influencer
Before choosing fashion design as your career and profession, one must be aware of these facts of working in this field.
Fashion Design needs dedicated time schedules and working styles.
Creativity doesn't come automatically, it needs research, practice, patience, experience, and Development.
Fashion design as a business needs teamwork too.
One cannot do all the jobs by themselves and carry a label of " I'm a Fashion Designer ".
So, if you're willing to do a fashion design professional course, you need to know what you're actually willing to do after the completion of the course.
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If your interest and core skill are in the field of technical studies of pattern developments drafting and sewing, then you should be wise to choose your future profession by either choosing to work for a brand or a label as a production head, or for a boutique, or you could even start a manufacturing unit- a business that you can own- by planning and making a setup with a well-equipped team of employees and machinery.
If your interest and core skill are in design development, then you can either provide your services for a brand or a label as a designer, or you could too start with a label or set up a boutique depending on what styles of design you'd like to make.
Remember, setting up a label or a brand doesn't work only by knowing how to design, one must be aware of the other needs to run a brand or a label.
Starting with the space and location of the brand, the setup, consider having your own manufacturing unit with dedicated employees or having your works outsourced.
Machinery, the store setup, trial room, and the total look that stands by your concept of design and style. Marketing team, networking, social media presence, and much more…
So, the conclusion of these questions is that when you decide what you really want to do, you must be aware of the future investments in learning the skill and then the investments required for its working in practice as a business…
Only learning the skill will not fetch you sustainable revenue from the business, a well-planned projection, a setup, and team will contribute to a successful Fashion Business.
Find out how what you should do next.
Creative Fashion Design Course at the Anil Nair's Fashion Academy is a Program for you, if you're inspired by the high-end brands & designer labels around the world and dream to make your own label, this course is a perfect choice.
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