When you think about fashion design, a lot of people think about the image of a hand grabbing a pencil and drawing some lines that outline what a dress or a suit will look like. It is true that this is one of the first steps, the outline of the ideas that the designer or dressmaker has within himself. It is perhaps the fault of the cinema and television, which have always shown this idea or thought.
But the reality is that there are several professional specialties linked to the area of fashion design. Below are detailed some of them.
- Patron: The Spanish Royal Academy defines him as the person who is dedicated to making sewing or fashion patterns. This figure very helpful for any designer, since it is the one who reflects into a paper or to the screen of a computer, the idea that there is in the mind of the creator of the piece of clothing. There must be a good connection between the two parties in order that the design can be carried out successfully.
- Model: People who are dedicated to being professional models not only develop their task on a runway. We can say that only the best ones come to the big catwalks. In the daily life of any dressmaker workshop or designer, prototypes and costume tests are carried out. The models have an important task since a garment is appreciated better in a person than in artificial mannequin.
- Stylist: Although the main thing is the design of the clothes that models are going to wear on the runways, they also have to wear a makeup and a hairdresser that exalts their figures and makes them stand out under the spotlight. Cosmetics and beauty brands work hard to be chosen by stylists and fashion designers.
Works related to fashion
These are three examples of working specialties linked to fashion design that are fully booming. Along with them, we can highlight others that are also important such as photographers and video editors, illustrators and graphic designers, journalists who write content about the fashion sector in magazines and websites, the persons in charge of the public relations, the decorators, the retail designer or the managers who are in charge of the of the public relations, the decorators, the retail designer or the managers who are in charge of the economic or logistic part.
The fashion industry is huge and moves thousands of people, companies and millions of dollars every year. How to get a job in fashion? Talent and training are very important. Competition is high and you have to be prepared.
