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Fashion Designer Merchandiser

As a Fashion Designer, your responsibilities include traveling to various fashion events and analyzing market data to determine fashion trends. You’ll be working with a team of designers.

Your tasks will typically involve:
• Researching current fashion trends and forecasting what will be popular with consumers.
• Taking inspiration from the world around you to create fresh and original designs.
• Deciding on fabrics, colors, and patterns.
• Producing sample designs and adjusting them until the final product meets expectations.
• Working towards given briefs with specifications relating to color, fabric, and budget.
• Specializing in one area of design, such as sportswear, children’s wear, footwear, or accessories.

In larger companies, you may focus more on design, while in smaller companies, you might handle multiple tasks.

Typical responsibilities include:
• Creating or visualizing an idea and producing a design by hand or using computer-aided design (CAD).
• Creating mood boards to present to clients.
• Keeping up to date with emerging fashion trends as well as general trends related to fabrics, colors, and shapes.
• Planning and developing ranges based on themes.
• Collaborating with the design team, buyers, and forecasters to meet briefs.
• Liaising with sales, buying, and production teams to ensure items suit the customer, market, and price points.
• Understanding design from a technical perspective, including producing patterns and technical specifications.
• Visiting trade shows and manufacturers to source, select, and buy fabrics, trims, fastenings, and embellishments.
• Adapting existing designs for mass production.
• Overseeing production and supervising the creation of sample garments.
• Negotiating with customers and suppliers.
• Showcasing designs at fashion and other trade shows.
• Working with models to try out designs and wear them on the catwalk at fashion shows.
• Managing marketing, finances, and other business activities if self-employed.

Fashion design is a highly competitive industry, typically requiring a degree, HND, or foundation degree in a subject that combines both technical and design skills. Relevant subjects include:
• Art and Design
• Fashion and Fashion Design
• Fashion Business
• Fashion Buying, Marketing, and Communication
• Garment Technology
• Graphic Design
• Textiles and Textile Design

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