Fashion designer

•“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. You'll decide on fabrics, colors and patterns, produce sample designs and adjust them until you're happy with the final product. You may work to your own brief or be given a brief to work towards, with specifications relating to color, fabric and budget. In large companies, you're likely to work as part of a team of designers, headed by a creative director, whereas if working for a small company as sole designer or for yourself, you'll be responsible for all the designs. You'll typically specialize in one area of design, such as sportswear, childrenswear, footwear or accessories.” https://www.prospects.ac.uk/job-profiles/fashion-designer#:~:text=cr eate%20or%20visualise%20an%20idea,often%20based%20on%20a%2 0theme

•There are different types of fashion designers the first one is high street fashion designer where your design work will be made, and mass produced all over the uk so it is important that your work is in fashion and trendy this would mean that you may have to be using social media to look at current trends and going to catwalks to see new ideas. This also means the fashion you are designing is practical to make and you will have to keep in mind that the skills you made need more is accuracy when designing the clothes to make sure they can be made. The second type of fashion designer is ready to wear designer where you would design garments that are ready to wear, and these are usually in small collections so its important that your designs match and follow a theme. This also means that you would have to design for a range of sizes .you would have to be open minded and willing to change your designs and get other people's opinion on designs because you may like a design, but majority may not and its important you get different people's opinions on it not just your own. Your designs will also be modified and changed a lot so you will have to be patient in the design process because it means that you will be having to redo your designs multiple times until they are perfect. The final type of fashion designer is the haute couture designer where you will be focusing on only one garment and spending a long time on only one outfit .these designs are usually for catwalks ,personally this is my favorite type of fashion designer because it allows you to be creative and slightly limitless in my ideas.it means that I can create a certain look that I like.

•The starting salary for this job is around £16000 a year. The working hours vary depending on what you are working on. Basic skills that you will need are communication and team working skills because you will most likely be working closely with a group of people to discuss ideas. Another important skill to have for a fashion designer that is often overlooked is confidence and self promotion especially for a haute couture designer because you will be designing very bold designs that are also unique and different and some people may like and some people might not, so being confident in your designs means that you can be very ambitious with your designs.

Graphic fashion designer

• “A fashion graphic designer is responsible for creating graphics for different items of clothing and accessories, as well as producing promotional and marketing material such as swing tickets and visuals for an advertising campaign. Other duties may include industry research, keeping up to date with emerging fashion trends as well as general trends relating to fabrics, shapes, and colors, and creating mood boards for clients. A fashion graphic designer works closely with fashion designers and would report to a Head of Design, Director or Manager.” https://beyondtalentrecruitment.com/blog/fashion-graphic-designer#:~:text=A%20fashion%20graphic%20designer%20is%20responsible%20for %20creating%20graphics%20for,visuals%20for%20an%20advertising%20campaign

• This is one job that I might be interested in the most because over lockdown I was learning how to use adobe illustrator and photoshop and I really enjoyed using them. Graphic fashion design is a mix between graphics and fashion design you will be using different software's to design outfits digitally. creating outfits using cad allows you to make garments that are accurate and precise. Using cad also means that your designs can be as imaginative and wild as you like because there are so much more options that you can do on a computer that you maybe won't have the equipment to do in real life such as the different tools like ink and spray-paint tool. The skills you need to be a graphic fashion designer is basic cad skills and being able to use different software not just adobe illustrator good fashion knowledge is also important to know how different fabrics flow. Hand drawing skills are very important. The average salary for a junior fashion graphic designer us £15,000 to £19,000.graohuc fashion designers are high in demand because of the skills it takes to use the softwares.is also an in-demand job because of the changes in time currently everything is going digital because it is more convenient cheaper and faster. This means that most employers will be looking for a fashion designer that ahs basic cad skills to create designs digital too. Its very convenient because you can easily send over work as a digital portfolio without having to hold a massive sketchbook so its easier and much more convenient. A Graphic fashion designer focus mainly on clothing and designing them digitally however they can slow be designing fashion magazine covers and logo for fashion brands. A graphics fashion designer. However, this means that I would have to learn how to do new things in adobe illustrator because I most likely won't be designing my own outfits when I first start out this is because I won’t be a professional yet so before that I would have to learn how to be able to copy other designs that have been drawn and remake it digitally .

Different creative platforms and how these can be used to support professional development

Etsy: buying , selling , promoting Snapchat :influencer, advertising

Meta verse ,Facebook: networking, opportunities ,research

TikTok: brand affiliation ,influencers , promotions , being seen

Instagram :brand promotion, showing your work off ,selling products

Linked in cv, networking

Pinterest :advertising ,option to link to other platforms

Arts thread portfolio

In a few years' time I would like to have created a professional social media account, either a LinkedIn profile or Instagram. This is so that I can network and find available opportunities for me. I would also like to create a professional portfolio I also need to focus on making it a professional account ,by sharing contact information such as an email and phone number so that people can easily access you. I can also post photos and reels onto the app so that people know what I'm currently doing. you can connect with big brands and influencers and get heard more. There are however problems with social media, and this is it can sometimes be scary for the whole public to see you it puts pressure on you to make sure that everything you are posting is up to scratch .however having an account that can be accessed by the whole world is sometimes good because it means that people can easily find and connect with you just by the simple click of a button

Personals skills set good time management skills cad skills could work on designing skills cad skills problem solving adaptive