fashion designer
Code 2163.1.3
Fashion designers work on designs for the haute couture and/or ready-to-wear, high street fashion markets, and more generally on items of clothing and fashion ranges. Fashion designers can operate in a specialised area, such as sportswear, childrenswear, footwear or accessories.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- portfolio management in textile manufacturing
- art history
- properties of textile materials
- textile techniques
Skills and competences
- Copiar estilos y líneas
- collaborate with designers
- design wearing apparel
- identify target markets for designs
- seek innovation in current practices
- modify textile designs
- produce textile designs
- produce textile samples
- gather reference materials for artwork
- monitor textile manufacturing developments
- use specialised design software
- use textile technique for hand-made products
Transversal competences
- develop design ideas cooperatively
- history of fashion
- monitor developments in technology used for design
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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