fashion designer
ISCO: 2163. Skills: 21. Essential: 19.
Essential skills
- art history
- collaborate with designers
- design wearing apparel
- develop design ideas cooperatively
- gather reference materials for artwork
- history of fashion
- identify target markets for designs
- keep up to date on costume design
- modify textile designs
- monitor developments in technology used for design
- monitor textile manufacturing developments
- portfolio management in textile manufacturing
- produce textile designs
- produce textile samples
- properties of textile materials
- seek innovation in current practices
- textile techniques
- use specialised design software
- use textile technique for hand-made products