Fashion designers are creative professionals who use their technical and artistic skills to produce designs. Their keen eye for fashion trends and understanding of textiles, fabrics and styles brings their creations to life. Some designers specialise in a particular area – such as womenswear, menswear, sportswear, shoes or accessories. Typically, their day-to-day responsibilities can include:
creating mood boards for design ideasproducing designs by hand or by using computer-aided design (CAD) softwarekeeping on top of fashion trendsplanning and developing fashion rangesworking with others in the design team to meet briefs (for a buyer, for example)sourcing, selecting and buying fabrics and materialscreating or supervising the creation of sample itemspresenting designs to clients, retailers or senior designers (and showcasing them at events).