Tailor/Fashion designer
Job Summary
As a fashion designer, you'll research current fashion trends, forecasting what will be popular with consumers, and take inspiration from the world around you to create fresh and original designs.
- Minimum Qualification: High School (S.S.C.E)
- Experience Level: Mid level
- Experience Length: 3 years
Job Description/Requirements
- Draw, design, and develop new clothing and accessory samples, and create and turn in documentation worksheets.
- Participate in meetings to discuss designs and line development, and present and review line and concepts regularly.
- Identify new opportunities relevant to the firm's customer base through market research.
- keep up to date with emerging fashion trends as well as general trends relating to fabrics, colors and shapes
- understand design from a technical perspective, i.e. producing patterns and technical specifications for designs
- adapt existing designs for mass production
- develop a pattern that is cut and sewn into sample garments and supervise the creation of these, including fitting, detailing and adaptations
- oversee production
- Manage new design and fit styles while also maintaining corporate standards for bulk production
- Do the work to cost out all of the components needed for a garment's production