Fashion designer

Product and garment designers design and develop industrial products and prepare designs and specifications for products for mass, batch or one-off production.

• determining design objectives and requirements through briefs and consultation with clients and stakeholders;
• formulating design concepts for clothing, textiles, industrial, commercial and consumer products and jewellery;
• balancing aesthetic aspects with technical, functional, ecological and production requirements;
• communicating design concepts and other information by preparing plans, maps, diagrams, samples and models;
• presenting design solutions to clients, management and production and sales staff;
• selecting, specifying and recommending functional and aesthetic materials, production methods and finishing operations;
• detailing and documenting the selected industrial design;
• preparing and commissioning prototypes and samples;
• overseeing the preparation of samples, programmes, tools and production processes.
• Examples of occupations in this unit group:
• Designer, stage costumes
• Designer, fashion
• Designer, jewellery
• Industrial designer