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Tips for a Fashion Design Career

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A successful career takes work. Get yours off to the right start.

Become an Attractive Candidate

Starting a fashion design career takes hard work and persistence. If you're confident that you have what it takes to make it in the fashion world, set realistic expectations for your success. When you're starting out in your fashion design career, expect to pay your dues in an entry-level position before you can work up to the job you really want. Make yourself as employable as possible. Put together a creative, appealing portfolio, and gain fashion design industry experience wherever you can.

 Your Fashion Design Portfolio

When preparing for a fashion design career, it's never too early to start showcasing your best work. Whether you're applying to fashion design schools or looking for jobs, your portfolio can help you get your foot in the door. Here's what you can do to make sure your portfolio is perfect:

• When applying to schools, research each school's portfolio guidelines so that you'll know what admissions officers are looking for
• When you're ready to find a fashion design job, you can choose what you include and how you present it
• Whatever your purpose, your portfolio should demonstrate your fashion design ability and creativity
• It's important for you to demonstrate your versatility; sketching ability, color and textile knowledge, problem solving skills and design development
• Above all your portfolio should express your unique style and fashion design experience

Apprenticeships and Internships

Getting industry experience is an important step in starting your fashion design career. Apprenticeships and internships have the double advantage of building your résumé while giving you the opportunity to learn from an experienced fashion designer:

• Although internships may not add much if anything to your bank account, the opportunity to observe and learn from someone with a successful fashion design career can be worth the lean times.
   
• There is a lot of competition in the industry, so having an inside track with someone in the business can give you a boost over other applicants. If you're a student, your professors or school career center may have industry connections and a willingness to help.

Take stock of the resources available to you and use them. Contact fashion houses or companies and find out what they need. Then you can polish your portfolio accordingly.

Getting the Fashion Design Career You Want

Don't be afraid to start small. Think about the big picture, but start with an attainable goal. Be creative.

Your portfolio and work experience can only take you so far. Perseverance is essential. If a fashion design career is what you want, keep focused and don't get discouraged. Your determination can pay off.

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Top 10 Skills Required to Become Successful in a Career in Fashion:

 For designers one of the most crucial skills to possess is strong drawing skills. A designer must be able to take a concept and get it down on paper.

 When designing fashion it is imperative for designers to be able to come up with a basic drawing and then be able to follow through with the detail. It is often the detail that makes a product unique so this skill cannot be overlooked even if the designer beats the competition in visualizing and drawing.

 Design involves a good sense of texture, color, and fabric in order to make it unique and desirable. It is these differences that make a design stand out.

 Prior to the drawing phase, a good designer must have strong visualization skills in order to come up with a concept. Designers are able to get their ideas onto paper so that other team members will be able to visualize a concept prior to coming up with a finished product.

 Designing footwear, clothing, and accessories takes a good deal of collaboration with other members of the team and requires strong people skills in order to get points across and be able to encourage a team to work well together.

 A thorough understanding of the business world from finance to sales and marketing is essential to becoming successful in the world of fashion. Creativity is the essence of fashion but without an understanding of business, it will be difficult to sustain a business and make it profitable.

 To create innovative designs a competitive spirit is necessary to ensure you don’t lag behind the competition. A thorough understanding of the economic market and the fashion industry will help keep ideas fresh and encourage creative new ideas when designing.

 Many people go into creating new designs and keeping the company moving in the right direction. A strong sense of collaboration and comraderie between departments is what keeps the creativity moving which also contributes to the overall success of the company.

 Keeping up with the fashion world is essential in order to better understand what other designers are doing and what current customers are buying.

1.     Highly Creative & Artistic:

All fashion begins with a creative eye and artistic talent. From start to finish it is the artistic talent and expression that brings raw materials into becoming a beautiful finished product.

2.     Strong Drawing Skills:

3.     Good Eye for Detail:

4.     An understanding of texture, color, and quality of fabric:

5.     Strong Visualization Skills:

6.     Excellent Communication & Interpersonal Skills:

7.     A Good Sense for Business:

8.     A Competitive Spirit:

9.     Ability to Work Well with a Team

10.                        Knowledge & Interest in Current Fashion Trends:

This article was contributed

By Penny Loretto