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As a graduate of fashion school or alumni of fashion design courses, you will be seeking a job in fashion design using your new skills and knowledge. There are lots of fashion design jobs for qualified students, whether they dream of runway work, styling for magazines, opening an independent store or retail merchandising for a large retailer.

There are about as many jobs in fashion design as there are in business, communications or any other field with specializations. As with any industry, jobs vary from entry-level to management on the business side, and labor to creative on the design side. Fashion design is an industry that can launch careers in window dressing, merchandising, promotions and marketing for large department stores. Other fashion design students go on to do costume design, interior design, or styling and designing outfits.

Creative Fashion Design Jobs

Many fashion designers choose to specialize in garments, accessories or shoes and purses. Creative fashion design jobs include cutting fabric, ensuring that as little as possible is wasted; using computer-aided design to create layouts and size patterns; and assembling clothing on an individual or large-scale basis. At this level, you're involved with fashion on a physical, creative basis.

Business Fashion Design Jobs

Every fashion designer needs to promote themselves and their brand, and most are looking for qualified individuals who understand selling online, magazine placement, promotions and sales. Major fashion lines also work with stylists and stars to help their clothes become popular and iconographic.

Fashion design jobs are available on all levels of skill and creativity, which leave you plenty of options after fashion school.

About the Author

Lynsey Hemstreet is a freelance writer and hairstylist who loves anything pink and sparkly. She has a BA in Journalism from San Francisco State University.

Source(s)

"Fashion Designers," Bureau of Labor Statistics