Fashion designers confer with clients to discuss design ideas, determine prices, and market products. They direct workers to construct samples and garments. Education ranges from a high school diploma to a bachelor's degree. Technical skills include drawing, sewing, and seeing how pieces fit together creatively. Fashion designers work in offices, factories, or stores and often work long, irregular hours to meet deadlines. Median pay is $34,620 for those with less than one year of experience, rising to $78,253-$87,675 with more experience. Professional associations like FIDM offer networking and internship opportunities.

1. Tyonna Yearwood
West Los Angeles College

2. DUTIES AND TASKS
 1) Confer with sales and management executives or with clients in order
to discuss design ideas.
 2) Determine prices for styles.
 3) Develop a group of products and/or accessories, and market them
through venues such as boutiques or mail-order catalogs.
 4) Direct and coordinate workers involved in drawing and cutting
patterns and constructing samples or finished garments.
 5) Identify target markets for designs, looking at factors such as age,
gender, and socioeconomic status.
 6) Provide sample garments to agents and sales representatives, and
arrange for showings of sample garments at sales meetings or fashion
shows.

3. WORK ENVIRONMENT
 You can work as a Art Directors, Floral Designers, Graphic Designers or
Sewer and Tailor.
 Dress as if you were trying to show your style to an agent or marketer.
 Fashion designers may work in offices, workrooms, factories or clothing
stores.
 Most fashion designers work long, irregular hours. Overtime often is
required before big shows and during season rushes. Work rooms may be
crowded. Designers must meet tight deadlines while maintaining a high level
of quality and paying careful attention to detail.

4. EDUCATION& TRAINING
REQUIRED
 Education can go from High School Diploma to as high as an Associates or
Bachelors degree , there isn't much needed to start fashion design , but the higher
the better the opportunity.
 Trainings are optional.
 License are not required.
 Working in retail can help be an source of fashion design.

5. TECHNICAL SKILLS
 Flat Drawing
 Sewing
 The ability to see seemingly disparate pieces and put them
together in a cohesive yet wearable fashion.

6. TOOLS & EQUIPMENT USED
 sewing kits.
 sewing machine
 thread , needles, pattern
 fabric , computers
 sketch pad, pencil, Pen models
 Scissors
 Rulers , measurement sticks
 Designer Dummies

7. EXPECTED EARNINGS &
JOB OUTLOOK
 The median salary for designers with less than one year of experience is $34,620
 Designers with 10 to 19 years of experience earn $78,253 a year, and those with more
than 20 years of experience earn $87,675.
 The job outlook strong competition for jobs is expected because of the large number
of people who seek employment as fashion designers and the relatively few positions
available and becoming a fashion designer can lead you in the range of being very wealthy.

8. PROFESSIONAL
ASSOCIATIONS
 F.I.D.M offers internships , and Round table discussions with
fashion designers and clubs such as the fashion industry club you can
join.
 The link to get to the website information is below
 http://fidm.edu/en/Campus+Life/Student+Activities/Student+
Organizations/

9. MIND SET
 You need to think creatively
 Think as a trendsetter
 Think Fashion
 Think Different

10. WHAT DOES STYLE MEAN
TO YOU?
 Fashion does not always mean that, you have to wear what the
others wear. How about thinking, I will make the world wear what I
wear? You can always make your own style statement, is it not?
 Trendsetter!

11. WHAT IS UNISEX
CLOTHING?
 Unisex clothing are apparel that men and women are able to wear ,
not just one sex should wear the same thing , switch it up and try
something different.

12. SOURCES
 http://fidm.edu/en/Campus+Life/Student+Activities/Student+Organizations.
 http://www.citytowninfo.com/education-articles/career-profiles/getting-your-
career-started-in-design-080501
 http://www.bls.gov/ooh/arts-and-design/fashion-designers.htm
 http://www.bls.gov/ooh/arts-and-design/fashion-designers.htm#tab-6
 www.Google.com