Textile Designing

Textile Designer or Fabric Designer: designs woven, knitted or printed fabrics for clothing and other home ware items like carpets, tableware etc. They treat the yam through different types of processes to give it a particular finish. The textile designer also make drawings of initial concepts and work with various yarns and fabrics taking into account the final use of the fabric by translating the designs into marketable fabrics.

Textile designers work within and alongside industries such as fashion, interior design, and textiles. They may also work under professional designers or as freelance designers working with a client base.

Colorist: play a vital role in the textile-printers, artist team. They are involved in block printing or machine printing. They must keep a record of color samples and fabric pieces and have to work in a high paced environment, to meet deadlines. The colorist has to be very organized and must carefully follow precise instructions. The other career options in textile designing are weavers, embroidery designers, dying & printing consultant, fabric analyzer, textile lab manager, fabric resource manager etc.

Apparel Merchandising

Fashion Merchandisers are mainly responsible for marketing. He/she has 10 study past and current sales data and analyze trends. They have to collect specifications from the buyers, coordinate with fashion designers and production team to develop a product, which meets market requirement.

They must have knowledge of fashion trends. textures. materials and colors on one hand and understanding of market demand and the production processes on the other. At the same time have analytical ability and communication skills.

They can find employment with garment industries, export houses, manufacturing firms etc.

Visual merchandising a comparatively new career field which has sprung up with the growing popularity of window and floor displays. Visual merchandisers main area of work is to create impressive window displays. They can find employment with fashion boutiques, shopping malls, emporia etc.

They are also engaged as shop floor managers. They can also do freelancing on contract basis for window displays in exhibitions, fairs and other places.

Other career options under this head are production coordinator, quality control supervisor and fashion retailer, export manager etc.

Fashion Journalism and Presentation

Fashion Journalist is an overall in-charge of a fashion magazine. It is through them that the general public gets to know the latest fashion trends.

He/she should have excellent taste for fashion and keep themselves abreast with latest fashion news, consumer reaction to new collections, fashion shows, current and future trends in color, design and fabric. Today fashion journalist has a bright scope for employment as there is a need for exclusive articles and programmes with the development of fashion industry.

Fashion Photography is an extremely creative and well-paid profession. Fashion photographer needs to have a keen eye for aesthetic detail, a thorough knowledge of cameras and the teclmicalities involved in taking pictures of light, distance and perspective to be successful. He/she should be inventive and able to visualize and .communicate his ideas, at the same time must be sensitive to the moods of the models and interact freely with them.

Fashion photography is one of the choices that photographers can diversify into. They can do freelancing and find employment with fashion houses, designers, fashion journals and newspapers.