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I grew up with fashion designs evolved in our environment. We owned a boutique before and I am the one who designed my dress. In fairness my friends like my designs and request to make designs for their dresses too. But unfortunately our boutique closed and we are just now accepting orders at home.
Based on my observation, branded clothing and unique designs are preferably design by professional fashion designer but still you can be one of them if you know their techniques and style on how to prepare everything. It is important to study fashion designs so that if you would like to have that business in the future then there will be no more problem.
For me, it is the most valuable career and I really want to enhance my skills and ability to it in order to become successful also. Actually, there are lots of promising career around us but the important thing we should remember is we must have passion in every field we are going to join. Being a fashion designer you have to learn many things and all designs that needed in all kinds of wears from formal dresses, tuxedos, wedding gowns and even simple dresses. Also we have to learn pattern making, different kind of textiles that fit in to a certain design, proper sewing, and proper measurements of the parts of the body.
Fashion designers can work in a number of ways. Fashion designers may work full-time for one Fashion Company, known as 'in-house designers' which owns the designs. They may work alone or as part of a team. Freelance designers work for themselves, selling their designs to fashion houses, directly to shops, or to clothing manufacturers. The garments bear the buyer's label. Some fashion designers set up their own labels, under which their designs are marketed. Some fashion designers are self-employed and design for individual clients. Other high-fashion designers cater to specialty stores or high-fashion department stores. These designers create original garments, as well as those that follow established fashion trends. Most fashion designers, however, work for apparel manufacturers, creating designs of men's, women's, and children's fashions for the mass market. Large designer brands which have a 'name' as their brand such asCalvin Klein, Gucci, orChanelare likely to be designed by a team of individual designers under the direction of a designer director.
Aside from that fashion has three types also like:
Haute couture
Fashion clothing was predominately designed and manufactured on amade-to-measureorhaute
Couturebasis (Frenchfor high-fashion), with each garment being created for a specific client. A couture garment is made to order for an individual customer, and is usually made from high-quality, expensive fabric, sewn with extreme attention to detail and finish, often using time-consuming, hand-executed techniques. Look and fit take priority over the cost of materials and the time it takes to make.
Ready-to-wear
Ready-to-wear clothes are a cross between haute couture and mass market. They are not made for individual customers, but great care is taken in the choice and cut of the fabric. Clothes are made in small quantities to guarantee exclusivity, so they are rather expensive. Ready-to-wear collections are usually presented by fashion houses each season during a period known asFashion Week. This takes place on a city-wide basis and occurs twice a year.
Mass market
Currently the fashion industry relies more on mass market sales. The mass market caters for a wide range of customers, producing ready-to-wear clothes in large quantities and standard sizes. Cheap materials, creatively used, produce affordable fashion. Mass market designers generally adapt the trends set by the famous names in fashion. They often wait around a season to make sure a style is going to catch on before producing their own versions of the original look. In order to save money and time, they use cheaper fabrics and simpler production techniques which can easily be done by machine. The end product can therefore be sold much more cheaply.
There is a type of design called "kutch" design originated from the German word "kitschen" meaning "ugly" or "not aesthetically pleasing."Kitsch can also refer to "wearing or displaying something that is therefore no longer in fashion." Often, high-waisted trousers, associated with the 1980s, are considered a "kitsch" fashion statement.
Thefashiondesignerwill also be heavily involved in the arrangements for afashionshowing, often selecting the models, arranging the presentation of the garments in the collection, and determining the final price for each garment. While most designers utilize assistants to handle many small details, the fashiondesignerusually retains full control of the process, from the initial vision to the first public presentation of the garment.
