Week 10 - Careers in Fashion 02

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Segments of the Fashion Industry

Raw Materials &Manufacturing

RetailingAncillary & Other

Businesses

Market Consultants

Textiles

Sourcing

Manufacturing

Promotion

Sales

Product

Development &Design

Promotion

Management

Merchandising

Fashion Visuals

Beauty

Fashion

Communication

2Thursday, March 25, 2010



Fashion Costumer

Collaborates with film andvideo directors to design,consign or construct appareland accessories that fit within

the mood, time frame andimage of the film or video

Can also be a Costume

Designer for Theater (or theStage)




Requirements: Fashion Costumer

✤ Background in theater costuming, historical costume,production design, visual arts, fashion design or a similar field.

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Experience in theater through internship as a costumedesigner,or work experience as an assistant fashion designersor fashion stylist, as a volunteer to assist in local theaterproductions, costume agency, or college and high schoolproductions.

✤ Creative and resourceful and understands historical fashion,clothing construction and fit, with the ability to sketch well toeasily communicate ideas.




Responsibilities: Fashion Costumer

✤ Rent, make, buy or revamp costumes & accessories depending onrequirements.

✤ reflect FAITHFULLY the personalities of the characters in thescript.

✤ Enhance the character’s personality through costume while at thesame time allowing the actor to move freely and perform actionsas required by the script.

✤ Collaborate creatively between the production director, set andlight designers to ensure that the costumes are smoothlyintegrated into a production as a whole.

✤ Collaborate with the hair and wig master, hairstylist and makeupartist.




Work Overview: Fashion Costumer

Read Script

Proposal & Approval of Preliminary Sketches

Proposal & Approval of Selected Designs

Rent, purchase, consignand/or revamp

Research

Fabric Selection

Meet with Director &Design Teams

Create aCostume Plot

DESIGN

FROMSCRATCH

BORROW or

REVAMP

GARMENTS

Fitting &Adjustments

Cutting &Construction

Final CostumeDesigns

Sourcing of garmentsand accessories

Fitting & Adjustments(if necessary)




Challenges: Fashion Costumer

✤ Accurately interpret the words and vision of the writer,director or producer.

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Requires a great deal of research and the ability tomultitask effectively.

✤ Often works on a tight budget and an even tighter

timeline.✤ Expect low pay and long working hours during the start

of career.




Fashion Stylist

Responsible for bringing tolife a photographer’s ordirector’s vision for a fashionphotography shoot, magazine

layout, music video, televisionor film commercial or printadvertisement.

Often credited with settingfashion trends around theglobe.




Requirements: Fashion Stylist

✤ Knowledgeable in fashion design, fashion merchandising, visualarts, photography or related fields

✤ Experience or internships with fashion publications or fashionstylists.

✤ Has an eye for style and upcoming fashion trends, as well as broadknowledge of historical fashions.

✤ Technical knowledge for creating sets and using lighting effectively.

✤ Needs to be creative, resourceful, persistent, and self-motivated.

✤ Should have good interpersonal, presentation, and communicationskills.

✤ Should have extensive networks of contacts within the fashionindustry to get the job done quickly and within budget.




Responsibilities: Fashion Stylist

✤ Scout locations and create the mood for a shoot by selectingappropriate props, fashions, accessories and even models tofit the theme of the shoot.

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Work with teams of people such as photographers, designers,lighting technicians, and set builders.

✤ Borrow, lease, or purchase garments and props and thenarrange to transport the selections to the studio or location to

determine which combinations look best.

✤ Works with hair and makeup personnel and dress the peoplefeatured in the shoot, adjusting the fit of apparel andaccessories as needed.




Challenges: Fashion Stylist

✤ May find this career filled with irregular work, long hours,limited budgets and clients with conflicting personal tastes.

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It can be difficult to work for a number of bosses, from theclient to the photographer or film director.

✤ often freelance and does not offer job security.

✤ Strong competition with minimal job openings.

✤ Should also avoid allowing their ego and tastes to interferewith a director’s vision or a client’s image.




Fashion Illustrator

Works freelance or within theadvertising division of majorretailers, designers ormanufacturers to sketch

garments for printadvertisements.

Hired by MTO designers to

create illustrations of designsfor press release or high profileclients.




Requirements: Fashion Illustrator

✤ Experience and/or education in fashion illustration, fashiondesign, fine arts and sometimes, computer-aided design.

✤ Outstanding portfolio that showcases ones ability to work with

variety of products in a range of styles.

✤ Ability to work quickly, adapt to different viewpoints, andwork with a range of mediums.

✤ Must be able to work independently and meet deadlines.

✤ CHALLENGE: Are usually confronted with the challenges of acquiring and understanding new technology on a regular basis.




Visual Merchandiser

Responsible for the windowinstallations, displays,signage, fixtures,mannequins, and decorations

that give a retail operationesthetic appeal and a distinctimage.




Requirements: Visual Merchandiser

✤ Education in Fashion Merchandising, fashion design, interior design,retail planning and design, fine arts or visual merchandising.

✤ Experience as a visual merchandising crew or as a fashion stylist.

✤ Portfolio of work: photographs for displays created for local

merchants, class projects, or internships in visual merchandising.

✤ Requires understanding of fashion marketing and merchandising; aneye for color, line, balance and proportion; a theatrical esthetic sense;strong sense of fashion; the ability to develop and follow time and

budget schedules; computer aided design skills to develop schematicsof displays; and the ability to rethink and reuse props, mannequins,and other display components.

✤ Must be able to take directions to execute concepts and work as amember of a team as well as work under pressure.




Challenges: Visual Merchandiser

✤ Also involves cleaning props, windows and refurbishingprops to stay within the budget.

✤ Required to work in the evenings to install displays whencustomers are not in the store.

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Starting wage is low and one may need to begin as adisplay associate and slowly climb the career ladder to become a visual merchandiser.




Deadline: April 8, 2010

Mini Projects 4 & 5Career in Fashion Challenge




Select 2 from the 4 Challenges

✤ A&B: Illustrate for a Designer or Magazine

✤ C: Fashion Styling Challenge

✤ D: Design your own Window Display

✤ If you submit a 3rd project, it will replace yourlowest score, or eliminate 1 absence.

✤ Refer to magazines as reference for A,B,C.




A. Fashion Illustration for a Designer

✤ Find an existing sketch or rough draft of a garment design, orfind an existing photo of an actual garment. Photo should besimple, unglamorous and may be unappealing.

✤ Using the sketch or photo as reference, create a FASHIONILLUSTRATION that will enhance the visual appeal of thatdesign. You may use any media you like.

✤ FORMAT: 1/8 Illustration board in size. (1st Page) Includeprinted photo/sketch of your reference. (2nd Page) Illustrationshould be fully rendered.




B. Fashion Illustration for a Magazine

✤ Select a fashion or bridal article you want to create anillustration of. Include title, date of publication and themagazine it came from. Print out a copy for reference.

✤ Create a FASHION ILLUSTRATION for that article that willeasily catch the reader’s eye.

✤ FORMAT: 1/8 Illustration board in size. (1st Page) Includeprinted article that you used as reference. (2nd Page)Illustration should be fully rendered.




C. Fashion Styling Challenge

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Done by pair or by group, but output should be individual. You maystyle yourself, or a fellow student in our INTROFD class.

✤ Using your existing wardrobe as a source of materials, create a newSTYLE based on an experimental theme of interest.

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Select main pieces you wish to use, take a picture per item (catalogtype). Mix and match the pieces and take a photo of yourself (or your block mate) conveying the theme/concept you wish to produce. Useaccessories, make up, props, sceneries, lighting effects, computeraided enhancements etc. necessary to produce the style/mood you

want.✤ FORMAT: 1/8 Illustration board in size. (1st Page) Clean layout of all

the pieces used with a 1 paragraph write up about the theme/conceptyou used for the styling challenge. (2nd Page) 1 Clear Photo of yourstyling.




D. Design your own Window Display

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Select an existing fashion brand you’d like to design a window for.✤ Research on their company profile, design style etc.

✤ Select a season typically used in the Manila setting that usuallyrequires an attractive window display. (i.e. Christmas, Valentines,

Sale, Halloween, etc.)✤ Create a clean sketch of the window display you’d like to create,

including a 1 paragraph description of your vision. Include allfootnotes necessary of the items included in the plan.

✤ FORMAT: 1/8 Illustration board in size. (1st Page) 1 Paragraphdescription of your vision and selected season together with a brief company profile of the brand you want to design for. (2nd Page) Asketch/plan for window display with labeled items.

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FORMAT & CRITERIA✤ FORMAT

✤ SIZE: 1/8 Illustration board. The 2 (or 3) projects should be compiledtogether.

✤ Include a cover page with your complete name, subject, section, date of

submission.✤ All pages should be bound together. Do not submit separately.

✤ CRITERIA

✤ All projects will be judged based on visual appeal, creativity andpresentation.

✤ Corresponding deductions will apply for incomplete projects.

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Same rules from past projects apply.

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