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This is an ideal career for a creative thinker. As a fashion designer, your job is to create new styles and designs and to produce new labels for clothing and accessories. You may start new trends, influencing the aspirations of thousands of image-conscious people across the globe; or you may simply adapt pre-existing designs and fabrics to local or specialised conditions. The primary markets for fashion design are haute couture, designer ready-to-wear and high street fashion but you may specialize in a paricular market (such as sportswear or children’s wear), or a particular product type (clothing, footwear, or accessories).

Salary p/a
38k - 93k

Qualifications
Degree

Intensity
Sitting

Demand
Growing

Travel
Medium

Conditions
Indoor

Weekly Hours
50-60

Pros

Freedom to work creatively
Opportunity to start a new trend
Continuous variety of projects

Cons

Creative blockages under stress
Uncertainty of industry direction
Highly competitive industry

The Bottom Line

Fashion designers are artistic and creative. It’s a fantastic occupation and the challenge to make it ‘really big’ very exciting. Those that make it are in serious demand. But the industry is highly fluid and you need to add vision, determination, persuasion and resilience to your creativity to gain experience. Then recognition, and finally longevity within the industry, may follow.

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