FASHIONISTA DESIGNER

Fashionista has multi-pronged connotations as it represents a person having taste and desire for trendy clothes and accessories. In the same way, it denotes a person who conceives, conceptualizes, idealizes, innovates the fashion designs and works in collaboration with other professionals to embody the conceived design and bring it as a thing to be displayed for merchandizing. Fashionista designer is a key figure in the fashion industry and the whole activities of this industry revolves around this key figure. The fashionista designer triggers the whole business of the fashion industry and makes it a wheel of progress and development.

WHO CAN BECOME FASHIONISTA DESIGNER?   

As is the case with many other professions which are open to all having prerequisite qualification and experience, but fashion industry requires something more than mere certificates, degrees and experience. A fashionista designer must be;

1. Creative
2. Innovative
3. Having ability to work with variety of professionals
4. Able to guide them to produce the best product
5. Aware of different cultures, traditions, fashion designs of different regions
6. Have ability to integrate them in ideas for trendy fashion designs
7. A widely travelled person
8. Having deep insight into the market trends and customers’ behavior
9. Analytical to evaluate market trends and competitors’ priorities  
10. Bold and courageous enough to introduce new designs.    

WHICH ARE RESPONSIBILITIES OF FASHIONISTA DESIGNER? 

The basic role and responsibility of fashionista designer is conceiving designs of clothing, footwear, and accessories and putting them into tangible form for retailing and marketing, however, there is much to do for fashionista designers in this ever-grooming, ever-ballooning, and sprawling market. These roles may be discussed as;    

1. Anticipates and foresees the future designs
2. Makes the best choice of theme of the best design and products
3. Creates innovative designs with automated gadgets like computer
4. Chooses best fabrics, color combinations and other such things necessary for designs
5. Plays a pivotal role in arranging fashion shows and ramp walks
6. Leads professionals, designers and other experts to make best designs
7. Makes prototypes and models
8. Interacts with directors, managers, retailers and others involved in the whole chain of the fashion industry
9. Searches for new markets for the new designs.

WHICH ARE TYPES OF FASHIONISTA DESIGNERS?

Fashionista designing has a wide range of spectrum and has many fields and branches. Moreover, many fashionista professionals prefer to be free lancers and run their own businesses and fashion houses while some get themselves attached with large fashion brands and outlets. However, there are many types of fashionista designers other than the main figure and can be discussed as;

• APPAREL DESIGNER

Apparel designer has the expertise and specialty of conceiving and creating clothing for men, women, children keeping in view their age, priorities, likes and trends and other factors like fabrics, colors, silhouette, fitting, practicability and functionality of the clothes.

• ACCESSORIES DESIGNER

The accessories designers create many fashion accessories such as shoes, handbags, hats, scarves, jewelry and other trendy items. They even suggest perfume and hairstyle which suit the overall appearance. They also suggest colors and other delicate details to boost personality.

• BRIDAL DESIGNER

Bridal designing involves high-end and elegant quality of all the fashion items that relate to bride, bridegroom, festive occasions, receptions, parties and other functions. Bridal designer has expertise in creating wedding dresses, bridal gowns and party dresses. The bridal designers take extra care in ensuring sophistication, elegance, intricacies, style to the bridal dresses and accessories as they create these things giving romantic touches keeping in view all the details and delicate elements.        

• COSTUME DESIGNER

Costume designers are the integral part of all the performing arts as they create specialized costumes for theatrical performances, films, dramas, television presentations, dance events, Halloween and other such events. They interact with the directors, producers and performers to create the costumes reflecting the theme, situation, characters, narrative, settings and background.

• FASHION ILLUSTRATOR

The fashion illustrators draw sketches and create outlines digitally for visual presentation of the fashion designs. They incorporate theme, concept, symmetry, proportion and details in their illustration giving a clear picture of the fashion design so that it may be turned into a garment.

FASHION SHOEMAKER

Fashion shoemaking is all about the footwear as the shoemakers make designs of shoes, boots, sandals and other footwear items keeping in view trends, durability, comfort, style and suitability. The material such as leather, fabric, rubber and other such things come into consideration of the shoemaker designer while creating innovative and fashionable shoes.

• KNITWEAR DESIGNER

Knitting is an important aspect of fashionista designing as the knitwear designers make sweaters, coats, cardigans, scarves, caps, hats, gloves, soaks and other accessories. They employ different techniques and gadgets like hand knitting, machine knitting and crochet to make fashion pieces exploring texture, color, patterns and designs for knitwear pieces. 

SPORTSWEAR DESIGNER

Sportswear designing requires deeper consideration to durability, flexibility and comfort allowing easy and comfortable movement for the sportsmen and athletes. The sportswear designers create activewear, athleisure wear and performance pieces keeping in view their functionality, style, moisture-absorbing, stretchy and ergonomic factors.   

CONCLUSION

The fashionista designing also includes lingerie and swimsuit designing which are important but involves a little creativity and innovation so these cannot be put on the list of highly creative and thematic fashionista designing. Fashionista designing is an engine of growth, sustainability, functionality and creativity in the fashion industry as the whole activities revolve around one figure. Fashionista designing is not a profession where only qualification, experience and training are enough because it is highly demanding profession and requires other qualities like creativity, leadership, team management, guidance, inspirational traits, dynamism, receptive mindset, courage, boldness, time management, analytical, perception market awareness and future-trend readability.

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