Apparel Design Careers Textile Careers Apparel 1 Obj

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.