Fashion+Designer

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 * **Category ** || **Explanation ** || **EXTRA REQUIRMENT ** ||
 * Tasks || Design clothes, manage their buisness, and if they work for a design house create product pitches and progress reports in their branch of design. ||  ||
 * Tools & Technology || Design tablets, tracing paper, light boxes, muslin fabric, and many other textiles. || [[image:http://www.techlicious.com/images/computers/hp-touchsmart-project-runway-250px.jpg width="174" height="97"]]hp design tablet ||
 * Knowledge || History- because it shows you the different cultural fashion. Math- So you are able to conduct fittings, measure out your fabrics, and able to construct clothes. Science- for when you go to make dyes for fabrics and it also helps you identify differt types of fabrics. Helps to have a mechanical engineering class so it can help you with some of the different machines used. ||  ||
 * Skills / Abilities || You need to have good hand eye coordination, good skilled eye, have nimble fingers, good fashion sense, buisness skills,analitical mind and people skills. ||  ||
 * Work Context || You could work into a design house working under another designer, or you could run the house. You can also run a personal buisness . Typically the work hours varie depending on what your time frames are for clothes. Therefore you have to be extremly flexible. || media type="custom" key="9661592" width="190" height="190" ||
 * Education || You dont need education, but it helps if you go to work for someone. The degree that you could get is a batchelor of fine arts. Also it helps to have a background in fashion. Also you could intern at a fashion studio, so you can get the gist of what a buisness in fashion is all about. || ﻿ ||
 * Related Occupations || Modeling, fashion consultant, fashion stylist, boutique owner, and also a fashion critic are related to being a fashion designer. ||  ||
 * Wages & Employment || $4,300 starting, $5,600 anually, and up to $10,000- $100,000 experienced. || [[image:http://supercamel.com/blog/pictures/coroflot-intdesignsalary.png width="321" height="236"]] ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Additional Information || Fashion never stays the same, it changes based on what society wants to portray and mirror at a particular time or season in fashion. In other words the public and even you contribute to wear fashion is headed. ||  ||

Was This Career Suited for Me? Absolutly, I am in love with fashion. I truly appreciate it and anybody who works in this buisness. I have all the qualities it requires and the passion it deserves.

Who is this suited for? Anybody who loves fashion, has an eye for detail, who is creative and good with their hands, organized, and most of all they need to be passionate and love what they do.

And always remember fashion has no limitations, so reach for the stars ~ Skyler :)