footwear designer
Code 2163.1.3.2
Footwear designers perform fashion trends analysis, forecasting and market research, create footwear concepts and build collection lines by operating mood or concept boards, colour palettes, materials, drawings and sketches etc. They conduct the sampling process, make footwear prototypes and samples for presentations aimed to promoting the footwear concepts and collections. They identify the range of materials and components, define the design specifications by collaborating with the technical team and review the footwear samples, prototypes, and collections.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- footwear quality
- perform pattern grading
- footwear components
- ergonomics in footwear and leather goods design
- footwear materials
- footwear and leather goods marketing planning
- footwear creation process
- footwear manufacturing technology
- last types
Skills and competences
- analyse types of footwear
- communicate commercial and technical issues in foreign languages
- create technical sketches for footwear
- create mood boards
- develop footwear collection
- implement footwear marketing plan
- develop footwear and leather goods marketing plans
- create patterns for footwear
- perform market research in footwear
- make technical drawings of fashion pieces
- use IT tools
- use communication techniques
Transversal competences
- innovate in footwear and leather goods industry
- reduce environmental impact of footwear manufacturing
- work in textile manufacturing teams
- apply fashion trends to footwear and leather goods
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This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences