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Interrelationship of the fashion careers fields
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Career fields in the fashion industry
• Apparel • Fashion Advertising • Public Relations• Retail• Retail Buyers• Special Events• Textile• Textile and Apparel Sales and
Distribution• Visual Merchandising
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Personal characteristics needed for success in the fashion industry
•Ambitious
•Willing to work hard
•Pleasant in appearance and manner
•Genuinely interested in people
•Energetic
• Inquisitive and willing to learn
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Career Opportunitiesin Textiles
Range from developing the initial fibers to selling the finished fabrics
Best opportunities are for people with strong education, continually developed and updated skills, and bilingual communication skills.
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Career Opportunitiesin Textiles (cont.)
Research and Development
• Employment opportunities• Fiber manufacturing• Textile mills• Testing labs
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Career Opportunitiesin Textiles (cont.)
Research and Development• Aptitudes, skills, and
knowledge required• Love of science• Patience in working towards a
solution• Creative imagination• Curiosity• Strong attention to detail• Good communication skills
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Career Opportunitiesin Textiles (cont.)
Design• Work ahead of current
season to research and forecast upcoming trends with proper yarns, blends, textures, and performance characteristics
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Career Opportunitiesin Textiles (cont.)
Design• Market analyst: Conducts
market research to discover future textile needs.
• Print/repeat artist: Creates original textile surface designs which may include color combinations and repeats.
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Career Opportunitiesin Textiles (cont.)
Design • Motif artist: Designs an idea
or theme (a motif).
• Colorist: Creates color combinations for designs.
• Strike-off artist: Arranges prints on fabrics after motifs and colors have been established.
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Career Opportunitiesin Textiles (cont.)
Design • Fabric stylist: Serves as
the bridge between the creative and business aspects by coordinating fabric design, production, and sales.
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Career Opportunitiesin Textiles (cont.)
Design • Aptitudes, skills, and
knowledge required• Imagination
• Creativity
• Artistic ability for different design careers
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Career Opportunitiesin Textiles (cont.)
• Production• Largest segment of the
textile industry• Employees operate machines
that perform manufacturing procedures.
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Career Opportunitiesin Textiles (cont.)
• Production• With the advancement of
technology, most production operations have computerized equipment.
• The computer skills needed to perform tasks in this work environment can be learned on the job or through formal education.
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Career Opportunitiesin Textiles (cont.)
• Sales• Salespeople are the
communication link between their company and the market, selling to yarn producers or fabric manufacturing firms. Firms with finished fabrics sell to apparel designers and manufacturers.
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Career Opportunitiesin Textiles (cont.)
• Sales• Aptitudes, skills, and
knowledge required• Ambition• Knowledge of fashion• Good communication skills• Integrity• Stamina and pizzazz
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Career Opportunities inApparel Manufacturing
• Ready to wear apparel is mass-produced in large quantities.
• The number of apparel industries in the U.S. is decreasing due to imports, higher technology, and lower retail sales.
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Career Opportunities inApparel Manufacturing
(cont.)• Fashion designer: Creates new
ideas that combine function and beauty.• Top fashion designers create their
own custom designs or ready-to-wear lines two to six times a year.
• Success depends not on creativity but on whether customers accept and purchase what the designer has created that season.
• Examples: Armani, Liz Claiborne, Mary Quant, Tommy Hilfiger.
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Career Opportunities inApparel Manufacturing
(cont.)
• Design stylist/copyist: Adapts and mass produces high-priced fashion styles for sale within the price range of their customers.• Qualifications include technical
knowledge of fabrics, expertise in pattern making, manufacturing costs, awareness of changing social and economic trends and a strong sense of color, line and proportion.
• Personal traits such as creativity, drive to succeed, and enthusiasm are very important.
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Career Opportunities inApparel Manufacturing
(cont.)
• Sketchers: Draw freehand illustrations of ideas designers have created with fabric draped onto mannequins.
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Career Opportunities inApparel Manufacturing
(cont.)
• Production• Plant manager: A person in
charge of all operations and employees at a manufacturing plant.
• Pattern makers, graders, and markers are pre-production employees that complete their functions either by hand or using computers.
• The production process includes jobs such as spreaders, cutters, assorters (or assemblers), and operators.
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Career Opportunities inApparel Manufacturing
(cont.)
• Sales• Showroom sales: In-house sales
employees who present the goods to visiting potential buyers.
• Merchandise coordinator: Verifies that merchandise is visually presented as effectively as possible within the retail stores.
• Traveling sales representative: Sells away from the showroom to established accounts and new customers within a designated sales territory.
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Career Opportunitiesin Retail
• Aptitudes and skills required• Ability to work well under
stress• Ability to get along well
with others• Ability to think quickly• Good organization skills
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Career Opportunitiesin Retail (cont.)
• Retail sales associate: An entry-level employee who sells goods directly to the customer.• A job that can lead to other
positions in the retail industry.
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Career Opportunitiesin Retail (cont.)
• Retail buyer: A merchandising professional responsible for selecting and purchasing goods for the company.• Must adapt to a variety of price
lines and types of merchandise
• Travels often
• Performs a great deal of research, planning, and record keeping
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Career Opportunitiesin Retail (cont.)
• Fashion Director: A person that creates and coordinates the fashion image and buying program for one or many stores.
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Career Opportunitiesin Retail (cont.)
• Management Opportunities• Merchandise Manager:
Coordinates the merchandise of several departments within a store; oversees a group of buyers using creativity in developing new merchandise ideas.
• Operations Manager: Oversees a department or group of departments; acts as a liaison between the buyer and the sales staff, providing feedback regarding sales and inventory; works to maximize profit and maintain effective customer service.
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Career Opportunitiesin Retail (cont.)
• Additional Retail Opportunities• Stock keeping: Responsible
for receiving goods, protecting them, and controlling their movements.
• Distribution planners: Keep track of all aspects of merchandise through computerized systems at central or regional distribution centers.
• Trainer: Responsible for giving orientation classes to salespeople on equipment, procedures, and soft skills.
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Auxiliary Services Career Opportunities
• Promotion: The process of communicating fashion information to the public.
• Modeling: The combination of advertising and performing whereby someone wears garments or accessories to show how they look.
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Auxiliary Services Career Opportunities
(cont.)
• Photography: Taking still pictures showing fashionable clothing and accessories and using creative props, backgrounds, and special settings to create a specific mood and image.
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Auxiliary Services Career Opportunities
(cont.)
• Writing: Creating, editing, and sharing fashion information through the mass media.
• Visual merchandising: Responsible for creating and setting up walls, racks, and displays to show the merchandise being offered and to reflect the desired image of the store.
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Auxiliary Services Career Opportunities
(cont.)
• Advertising: Responsible for formulating approaches to attract and inform potential customers about a product or service.
• Account executive: Serves as the liaison between the advertising agency and the client and is responsible for selling to and handling specific advertising accounts.
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Auxiliary Services Career Opportunities
(cont.)
• Advertising • Media buyers: Selects and buys
the best media for the client’s advertisements after negotiating for times, positions, and the lowest rates.
• Art director (advertising designer): Creates the concepts of advertisements for all forms of media including newspapers, magazines, and flyers, radio, outdoor media, and television.
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Auxiliary Services Career Opportunities
(cont.)
• Fashion forecaster: Highly-skilled consultant who predicts future trends based on observation and work with fiber producers, colorists, and researchers.
• Public relations: Helps a company project a specific image through all forms of media using publicity and special events and by anticipating problems and handling complaints.
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Auxiliary Services Career Opportunities
(cont.)
• Theatrical costuming: Creating wardrobes for performers in a stage play, opera, circus, commercial, or television show taking into consideration the script, lighting, and budget limitations.
