Clothing design is one of such activities as design in general. Its purpose is to design clothes in which a person will be comfortable and which will decorate him.
Depending on the object of design, clothing design can be divided into such areas as:
costume design;
shoes;
hats;
knitwear;
accessories, etc.
Today, clothes are most often produced for the mass consumer, and in this case the clothing designer prepares industrial collections. Along with this direction, the so-called “prêt-à-porter” (translated from the French as “ready to wear”) is also developing. This is ready-to-wear high quality clothes, which were invented and created in the workshops of famous fashion designers.
There are also unique collections, called “couture”: Fashion designers create designs for the elite, for those who can afford to dress in the most fashionable, stylish and high-quality ensembles, created on the basis of designs by ingenious creators.
Interestingly, the fashion industry has its own special laws, different from those of other areas of industry. For example, in the field of design it is not accepted to discuss urgent issues at conferences or convene large-scale meetings. Everything happens quite in camera, as they say, “for their own people”. We can say that in some ways the analogue of professional conferences are weeks of high fashion, fashion salons, as well as fairs. However, at such events, fashion designers rather pursue completely different goals, namely to show their creations to an appreciative audience, to find manufacturers ready to undertake the realization of creative ideas, and to advertise new collections.
A clothes designer is in fact the same as an inventor. He sees the unusual in the familiar, has the ability to make this unusual accessible to the eyes of others, to decorate our everyday life. To create a new collection, the designer invents new forms, elements, accessories, and then tries to adapt the models to everyday life, so we can not only admire them on the catwalk, but also buy them for ourselves and wear them with pleasure, feeling attractive and unique in new clothes.
Despite the outward smartness and festiveness, the profession of a fashion designer is largely routine. For example, an integral part of the duties of a specialist in clothing design is to study the needs of potential customers, market demand. After developing the concept, the idea of the future product should make a sketch – actually, the project. It happens that in the sketch has to make many changes before it becomes perfect.
Fashion designer is a very creative profession. The person who chose it for himself must be distinguished by creativity and the ability to look at things from an unusual, unconventional side. Of course, you cannot succeed without such qualities as diligence and assiduity. The more a person has patience and creativity, communication skills and the ability to see the unusual in the ordinary – the higher his chances of becoming successful in this field.