clothing fashion designer (EN)
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Clothing fashion designers create concepts and make sketches of their creative ideas by hand or by using software. They analyse and interpret fashion trends in order to propose new ideas with high aesthetical value. They perform forecasting and market research to put together collections. They build collection lines by operating mood or concept boards, colour palettes, materials, drawings and sketches considering among others ergonomical criteria, etc.
Classification skills are not a measurement of your proficiency or future displaced hours.
Source aliases (EN)
- clothing designer
- couturier
- clothes designer
- clothing product designer
Skills and knowledge
Essential (EN) · 12
- create technical sketches for footwear
- draw up costume sketches
- create mood boards
- manage briefs for clothing manufacturing
- properties of textile materials
- portfolio management in textile manufacturing
- draw sketches to develop textile articles
- alter wearing apparel
- produce textile designs
- keep up to date on costume design
- design wearing apparel
- develop design concept
Optional (EN) · 43
- manufacture wearing apparel products
- evaluate garment quality
- coordinate manufacturing production activities
- sew textile-based articles
- manufacture personal protective equipment made of textile
- use textile technique for hand-made products
- embroider fabrics
- create patterns for garments
- manufacturing of wearing apparel
- analyse scanned data of the body
- inspect wearing apparel products
- manufacturing of made-up textile articles
- perform process control in the wearing apparel industry
- marker making
- distinguish fabrics
- modify textile designs
- e-tailoring
- analyse clothing 3d prototypes
- make technical drawings of fashion pieces
- decorate textile articles
- use 3D scanners for clothing
- manufacturing of children clothing
- analyse supply chain strategies
- fabric spreading in the fashion industry
- 3D body scanning technologies
- grade patterns for wearing apparel
- draw up costume patterns
- operate garment manufacturing machines
- cut fabrics
- sew pieces of fabric
- examine sample garments
- apparel manufacturing technology
- analyse costume sketches
- operate computerised control systems
- history of fashion
- define specifications for clothing
- draw sketches to develop textile articles using softwares
- select design elements
- CAD for garment manufacturing
- standard sizing systems for clothing
- prepare production prototypes
- apply fashion trends to footwear and leather goods
- pleat fabrics
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