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The world of fashion offers a variety of careers to choose from. Fashion designing is one major career option with various specializations to choose from. One can become a fashion designer specializing in garments for various occasions and uses or become a designer of garments made with material such as leather or using knitwear :
Accessory designers create items that enhance the look of a garment such as costume jewellery. Gloves, scarves, ties, belts and purses.
coordinating, fashion forecasting, manufacturing technology and marketing of apparels and accessories are the other important job opening in the fashion industry.
The designer’s job always involves a variety of tasks but it varies enormously according to the size, type and organisation of the firm he/she is working for. Few designers spend much time actually creating and sketching brand new ideas, styles and trends. The majority specialise in designs that are an amalgamation and adaptation of ideas from various sources, They use their creative ability combined with technical expertise to incorporate fashion trends and their firm’s special style/feature into the type of garments which sell best in a given type of market (trendy, elegant, classic, etc.) within a given price range.
Technology management and marketing are the other important areas of work in the fashion industry. Merchandising and marketing professionals for the fashion industry are equipped to deal with the practical functioning of the fashion business; they deal with trade documentation, inventory management retail marketing or international marketing. Thorough exposure to marketing practices in the domestic and international market, skill in forecasting fashion trends and experience in buying add up to a fashion marketing professional