As a fashion designer, your main career objective is to develop and create various pieces of apparel. You may choose to focus your creativity on one of the three main areas of fashion
- clothing, footwear, or accessories
- or to work in a broader setting and create multiple types of fashion garments and apparel.
You will be in charge of guiding all steps of the design process, from initial conception to final manufacture and marketing. Other responsibilities may include monitoring current fashion trends and movements with the purpose of designing products that meet contemporary purchasing preferences.As a fashion designer, you`ll work with many other people. For example, you may be in charge of supervising a team of technical designers, who will do most of the actual drawing and cutting of your specific design ideas. You also might work with individual clients to design pieces of custom couture, in addition to collaborating with sales and marketing managers to determine the best way to present your new ideas.