Fashion Designers design garments which are purposeful as well as attractive and in keeping with trends, market predictions and the climate. They have good knowledge about fabric, weave, draping qualities, material, color and design and the changing trends.

The opportunities for job exist in the following sectors:
Export houses dealing with garment/textile/handloom exports
Retail and wholesale garment businesses in men‘s/women‘s/children clothing in sportswear/casual wear, etc.
Haute Couture
Government/Semi government-handloom/textile manufacturers
Fashion show organizers/Fashion publishers
TV/Film fashion program producers/comperes/costume designers, etc.
With Film production units
Teaching design


Fashion designers require to be artistic, creative and must posses ability to translate ideas in sketches, must have keen sense of colour i.e. combination of shades and tones, visual imagination & knowledge of market trends which assists them in the following profiles:

Fashion coordinators
Illustrator
Fashion Consultant
Cutting Assistants
Sketching Assistants
Fashion Stylist
Textile Designing
Textile Designer or Fabric Designer
Colourist
Apparel Merchandising
Fashion Merchandisers
Visual merchandising
Fashion Journalism and Presentation
Fashion Journalist
Fashion Photography
Modelling
Fashion Stylist