Fashion Designer
Designs what people wear and how they feel in it.
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Design an outfit on paper and label the fabrics
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What is it?
Fashion designers sketch, sew, and shape the clothes people live in — from streetwear brands to runway shows to sustainable independent lines.
A typical day might include…
Morning mood-board work, mid-day fitting samples, lunch at the fabric market, afternoon sketching for next season, evening buyer meeting.
They might…
- Sketch collections
- Choose fabrics and colors
- Sew and fit prototype samples
- Show and sell finished collections
"Everything I do is for the seventeen-year-old version of myself."
— Virgil Abloh
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Pay range
$50k–$130k (US, 2024)
Just one factor — not the point.
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