Apparel Design Careers & Textile Careers Apparel 1 Obj. 1.01

Design To design something is to plan it out, to make or fashion it. Design is at the heart of the Apparel and Textile Industries.

Design The whimsy of a high fashion designer, the passion of a textile designer for a pattern or color can create the newest fashion trend.

Design The designer is the beginning of the chain that leads from a thought all the way to the model on the runway and then to a garment hanging on the rack in a store.

Design Careers (plus one) Fashion Designer Sketcher Textile Designer Laboratory Career Textile Chemist

Types of Fashion Markets Fashion is created at many different price points to provide clothing for people at many different income levels. The two largest divisions of the fashion market include: – High fashion (haute couture) – Ready-to-wear (prêt a porter)

Fashion Designers A fashion designer creates sketches of clothing that will be sold in a particular market. The designer must use knowledge from all areas of the apparel industry to create designs for clothing lines. Knowledge areas of the industry include elements and principles of design, fabrics and apparel construction techniques.

Types of Designers High Fashion Designers (Name designers) – These are the people who become famous for their designs – the designers that people can name. Coco Chanel, Ralph Lauren, and Georgio Armani are some famous designers. Industry designers – are people who work for manufacturers and produce designs for a specific brand or a store label. They do not have name recognition, but make up the bulk of fashion designers at work in the U.S. today.

Designer skills Ralph Lauren – brief biography Video clip What skills do you see that Lauren used to build his career? Was he an overnight success?

Sketcher a person who provides drawings of ideas that fashion designers have draped onto mannequins using fabric

Textile Designer a person who artistically creates textile patterns that can be incorporated into fabric design

Textile Chemist a person with a chemistry background who works to develop new manufactured fibers and/or blend different fibers together to create new textile effects

Sales and Distribution Careers To sell is to exchange money for a good or service. To distribute is to supply goods to retailers

Showroom Salesperson a person who works in the apparel manufacturer’s showroom showing apparel designs to potential buyers

Outside Sales Representative a person who works outside of the apparel manufacturer’s showroom showing apparel designs to potential buyers

Market Researcher a person who researches the apparel market for new buying trends and reports back to the apparel manufacturing company concerning what, where and why consumers are purchasing

Retail Buyer a person who selects and buys apparel items, accessories, etc… for their company to sell for a profit

Career Assignment Work independently to find a picture of an apparel item in a magazine, catalog, or print in color) one from an on-line source. Create a mini-apparel production career poster in your sketchbook that identifies and lists the apparel design and production workers who most likely contributed to the apparel item’s creation. FYI: You will be sharing with your classmates!! We will do a roundtable presentation.