Design, Advertising and Related Services
Fashion Designers
Detail
Responsibilities
Fashion Designers create designs for clothing products, harmonising aesthetic considerations with technical, merchandising and costing requirements. Their duties include studying fashion trends, and identifying target markets for designs; selecting fabrics, colours, materials and production techniques to be used for garments; preparing sketches, diagrams, illustrations, plans, samples and models; preparing samples of garments to sales representatives, and presenting samples at sales meetings; monitoring and overseeing the final production of their designs.
Basic qualification requirements
Academic requirements
normally have a higher diploma or a bachelor's degree in related field, such as fashion design or fashion image design
Work experience
usually 3 to 5 years of design experience is required
Industry specific capabilities
Artistic ability
Related education and training
Degree or above
BA (Hons) Fashion Design
BA (Hons) International Fashion Business
Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Fashion Design
Higher Diploma
Higher Diploma in Costume Design for Performance
Higher Diploma in Fashion Branding and Buying
Higher Diploma in Fashion Design
Higher Diploma in Fashion Image Design
Higher Diploma in Fashion Media Design
Professional Diploma/Certificate
Professional Diploma in Fashion Design
Professional Diploma in Fashion Photography
Professional Certificate in Fashion Material Analysis and Technology
Diploma
Diploma of Vocational Education (Fashion Textile Design and Merchandising)
