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Fashion Merchandising: More than Selling Clothes
A career in fashion design often goes beyond selling clothes and includes buying and selling, promotion, manufacturing, and accounting.
Generation Y Fashion Design and Marketing
The fashion-conscious members of Generation Y drive design and marketing.
From Fashion Design Assistant to Your Own Line
If you've graduated fashion school and want to start your own line--take heed! Know you're ready before you take the plunge. Read on to learn when it's time to strike out on your own.
Fashion Thrives Online
Creating a Web site to market original fashion designs has become popular in today's increasingly online world.
Fashion "Faux Pas," the Good and the Bad
Sometimes a hip trend can be monstrous in its ugliness. Find out how some fashion designers learn to incorporate the latest and not-so-greatest trends to vanquish fashion monsters for good.
A Lucrative Fashion Design Niche
Fashion schoolers beware: Women over 40 collectively make more than $1 trillion a year in the United States. A large part of this income is set aside for fashion.
Swimwear Fashion Design: Where Fit and Marketing Matter
For aspiring fashion designers interested in creating swimwear, an education in marketing the right fit can be an essential tool.
After Fashion Design School: Careers in Retail Management
For an exciting blend of fashion design and business, a career in retail management is a great option after fashion design school.
Men's Fashion
Men's fashion is a big industry in need of good designers. If you're thinking about fashion school, consider men's clothing design.
Personal Style Key to Fashion Success
You need an outfit for a special occasion. How do fashion designers decide what looks best?
Flexibility, Patience, and Hard Work Pay in a Career in Fashion
As two famous designers' careers show, remaining flexible and working hard is key in fashion.
A Degree for the Business of Fashion
The business side of fashion is a large field in need of educated management professionals.
Three Great Ideas for Your Life After Fashion School
Here are three great ideas for turning your fashion degree into a career after fashion school.
Glamour Continuing Theme in Celebrity Fashion
Tabloid photos often show celebrities at their absolute worst, but special events bring out the stars in all of their splendor. The glamour of evening wear continues to be a significant fashion influence in Hollywood.
Understanding Textiles Provides Foundation for Fashion Design
Textiles serve as the foundation of fashion design. Their appearance, texture, and performance can make or break your fashion designs. Learning about textile design and construction can help you succeed in a fashion career.
Fashion Illustrators Bring Designs to Life for Stage and Screen
Do you enjoy drawing and sketching? If you're the one who keeps a sketchbook at hand, a career in fashion design may be for you.
Coco Chanel Fashion: The Little Black Dress
Coco Chanel, legendary fashion designer, is considered to be the creator of the fashion staple, the little black dress. Chanel couture designs continue to inspire ready -to-wear lines.
What Goes Around Comes Around: Fashion Design Inspiration from the Past
Recent fashion trends have revisited 1960's and 1970's styles--but the newest designs are distinctly 80's. Leggings, anyone?
Simple Fashion Design
If you're in fashion design school and contemplating your fashion focus, consider simple. Simple ranges from elegant to edgy, expensive to bargain.
Lifestyles Influence Fashion Design
Whether you surf southern California beaches, frequent hip hop nightspots in New York, or are an environmental activist, your lifestyle can influence and inspires your fashion preferences.
Fine Arts Degree Useful in a Fashion Design Career
If you have a degree in visual or fine arts, a fashion design career can provide creative opportunities in areas such as textile design, wardrobe and costume design, garment design, and retail marketing.
Fashion History Plays Role in Costume Design and Collection
If you're interested in historical eras--Civil War, Old West, or Victorian, for example--the study of fashion history may lead to career opportunities in costuming, or a curatorship of fashion collections for museums.
Fashion Design for the Global Village: Tribal Motifs Provide Inspiration
Tribal motifs and fashions widely influence modern fashion design. The popularity of body art and an increasingly global culture provides inspiration for fashion designers.
Embellishment Brings Bling from Red Carpet to Main Street
The shimmer of magnificent jewelry and extravagantly beaded gowns worn by celebrities highlight their appearance on the red carpet. Fashion design firms are finding ways to bring a touch of glamour to ready-to-wear lines.
Business Casual Clothing Presents Challenges in Fashion Design
Many businesses have "business casual" dress policy. What is "business casual?" Why is it an important influence on fashion design? Fashion savvy professionals want unique but polished fashion options for 'dress down' days.
Curves Ahead for Fashion Design School Grads
Fashion design school graduates can expect to encounter curves ahead, as the industry shifts to a healthy ideal of beauty. Here's how the hourglass figure could affect your career in fashion design.
Men's Fashion Design: More Prevalent than You Think
As men grow more fashion-conscious, male fashion design is becoming a booming industry.
Fashion and Apparel Design for the Head
Fashion and apparel design includes hair accessories, read on to learn how you can contribute to a grand tradition of fashionable headgear.
From Ski Slopes to Fashion Runway: Emilio Pucci's Inspiration
Emilio Pucci's early fashion designs were inspired by his experience as an alpine skier. Later, he established a successful fashion career with his trademark bold, bright prints.
Fashionable Athletes
Athletes join celebrities in setting fashion design trends.
Men's Fashion Looks to the Vatican for Inspiration
Men's fashion is finally making a splash in international fashion shows and fashion stylist schools. But will the industry opt for a flashy or sophisticated look?
Opening a Small Business in Fashion: Hard Work, Great Payoff
Opening your own clothing store can be tough, but with a fashion degree and a positive outlook, success can come to ambitious fashion lovers.
Careers to Consider After a Fashion Degree Program
Event planning and furniture design are just a few alternative careers graduates from fashion school can consider.
Big City Fashion Design, Small City Digs
Bringing fashion design to smaller cities in the United States is a great idea for a career in fashion.
Fashion Design at Online Schools
Sometimes you just can't make it to campus in time for class. At times like these, your alternative option is to find online fashion design schools.
Fashion Design and Retail Management
Major retailers, such as Target and WalMart, need qualified students for careers in retail management. Are you the right material?
Infant and Toddler Fashion Design Explodes with the Rising Baby Boom
Fashion design schools are keeping up with the rising demand of the infant clothes craze.
Accessories Key to Fashion Success
Your best friend just blew her paycheck on a designer handbag, and you think you could design better accessories for much less. If you have an eye for fashion design, you may want to try your hand at designing fashion accessories.
Using Global Connections in Fashion School
Fashion school is great for a variety of reasons including the opportunity to travel abroad and plug into the international fashion scene.
Textile Design Leads to Choice of Fashion Careers
When you shop for clothes, do you enjoy feeling the texture of fabrics, and inspecting them closely for color and design? Studying textile design can lead to a variety of careers in fashion design and marketing.
Teen Plus Sizes a Niche Market for Fashion Design and Marketing
Despite the popular notion that "thin is in," research indicates that nearly half of American women wear a size 12 or above. The conflict between reality and media hype presents a unique set of problems in fashion design and retailing for teens.
Fashion Savvy Can Lead to Career Opportunities
A recent news article stated that denim has led fashion trends for the third year in a row. If you're ready for something new, fashion design school can lead to a great career.
A Fashion Merchandising Degree: The 'Confidence and the Skill' for a Fashion Career
A degree in fashion merchandising can prepare students to design, market, buy, write, and even more with fashion.
Bringing Fashion Forward through Icons of the Past
Young fashion designers and design students can remember the past when searching for inspirations for their new designs.
Chicago's Fashion Queen and Her Degree
For a versatile career in fashion design, fashion marketing is a good degree choice.
Something to Learn from Celebrity Designers
Celebrities may have an easy entrance into fashion, but getting educated first is truly en vogue.
What is "New" is Not All There Is in Fashion Design
Fashion design, marketing, and buying, is not only about the new.
Being an Educated Fashion Designer
The world of fashion design is challenging enough without being uneducated.
Fashion Industry Changes Offer New Opportunity to Young Designers
The fashion design world is expanding, and giving designers just starting out more opportunity to grow their careers.
Fashion Career Realities: The Art of the Day Job
Fashion design is a creative, rewarding career--but it's not always easy at the beginning. Some fashion designers started their fashion careers without giving up their day jobs for their true passion.
Clothing Design Good Enough to Eat
This season, the new black is green. Eco-friendly fashion and apparel design has taken center stage. Sustainable textiles are driving the new "ethical" haute couture. The unlikely star of these new clothing designs? Fruit.
Passion for Fashion Design
Are you a fashion fanatic? Ever find yourself following the various fashion weeks as they crisscross the globe? Is Project Runway your favorite show? If so, maybe it's time to consider attending fashion design school and making your passion for fashion design your career.
Fashion Design School: Runway to Success
Do you have what it takes to make it on the runway and beyond? If you're considering a career in fashion design it's important to enroll in fashion design school.
Current Issues in Fashion Model Health Point to Value of Fashion History
The pendulum may be swinging the other way when it comes to undernourished fashion models. A sense of fashion history will do designers well when designing for the future.
A Fashion Degree Does Wonders for the Heart
The chance to show the world your designs means more than having a job. It's a lifetime opportunity that can be traced back to the spark that first fired your imagination in fashion school.
'Green' Clothing and Fashion Marketing for Your Designer Career
Green design, coupled with a fashion degree and good fashion marketing sense, has helped this young fashion designer to the start of a great career.
Silent Night, Homely Night: A Holiday Fashion Education
Don't risk ruining eleven months of impeccable style with one month of hideous holiday fashion. If you're tempted to put on the kitsch this holiday season, take this crash course in fashion education.
Finding a Career From Fashion School
Good fashion marketing and a degree from fashion school are two things that these successful fashion designers have in common.
Good Advice for New Designers from Industry Veterans
A few words of fashion wisdom are heard from a fashion writer, fashion director, and fashion house CEO.
Latest Spring Collections Will Fit Like Your Own Skin--Literally.
British fashion designer Hussein Chalayan debuted his spring 2007 Collection in Paris and somehow managed to have everyone talking about his clothes; even if his models weren't wearing any.
This is Why You Go to Fashion School
Fashion design school is not only about what you learn, but whom you meet.
Furniture Finds its Way into Fashion Design Careers
The designer Nicole Miller is a great example of a fashion designer who is successfully expanded her designs to include fashionable furniture.
Ralph Lauren Says You Decide Which Fashion Designs are Hot
World renowned fashion designer Ralph Lauren has released his new spring line and the fashions are dictated by the independent woman.
What Comes Around Goes Around
If you have an entertainment or fashion career, step right up to one of the most extensive vintage clothing collections in the world.
Fashion Design Online: Earn Your Degree through Distance Learning
If you hold a secret desire to become a fashion designer, why not give your dreams the chance to come true by earning an online degree in your spare time?
And the Winner of the 2005 CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Award Is…
From a dorm room to Barney's in three years, the Trovata design group has launched the fashion careers of its creators with a prestigious fashion award.
That's Haute?
Why should you slave away at fashion design school while every celebrity in Hollywood cranks out their own fashion line? Because behind every celebrity designer is a fashion school graduate, lending their expertise to the technical design.
Fashion + Business = Fashion Merchandising
Learn about the side of the fashion business that's often overlooked--the job of fashion merchandising.
A Fashion Design Career in Kiddie Couture
When it comes to choosing who will wear the couture in the family, many parents are opting to buy the designer label for their baby fashionistas. Fashion design career hopefuls are taking note, and focusing their fashion school studies on kiddie couture.
Your Fashion Career is in the Bag
Attending fashion school is the perfect place to learn the art of handbag design.
Fashion School: 90% Perspiration and 10% Preparation
Before you embark on your fashion education, make sure you're prepared for what lies ahead.
New Run, Same Way for Popular Fashion Design TV Show
What's new about Bravo's famous (or infamous) fashion design show? Some fresh fashion marketing, as well as an interesting first challenge, where the new designers play "house."
A Career to Love--Thanks to Fashion Design School
Whatever your roots, location, and life circumstances, fashion design school can offer new beginnings to lovers of fashion design.
A Fashion Assistant Job That Made a Dream Come True
Two things to remember for your fashion design career: fashion is more than just clothing, and an assistant job can be a great career move.
Fashion Design, For Small Towns Too
Location is important in fashion design. Adding fashion design programs in new locations is even more important.
Focus Pays Off in Fashion
With hundreds of fashion senses and clothing designs out there, finding a focus and keeping it will pay off in the end.
Fashion Design Software on the Rise
As a new fashion designer, hiring a model each time you need your clothing designs tested can be expensive. Fashion design software can be a useful alternative.
Keep the Cash: It's the Design Recognition That Counts
To jumpstart your new fashion design career, here's a tip to take to heart: enter as many design contests as you can.
Why Being a Fashion Assistant is Very Fashionable
Starting at the bottom isn't a bad idea in fashion design. "Assisting" can turn to "designing" through some hard work and fashion networking.
Don't Forget, Creativity Is Everything
Wondering how you can make fashion design jobs your own? Easy. Remember what industry you're in, and be creative.
Budget Couture: Fashion Marketing at Its Best
Retail management leaders are learning how to bump up affordable fashion, through a little savvy fashion marketing.
Vanity Sizing: Fad, Fashion, or Good Marketing?
With vanity sizing becoming more and more common, issues like female comfort and obesity in America have yet to be solved in fashion design.
The Five People You Meet in Fashion School
Who are the five people you meet in fashion school? Here's a cast of characters you're likely to encounter.
Love is All You Need In Fashion
Big-hearted gifts and kind words seem to be all the rage in fashion these days, offering a balance to the shallow reputation of the fashion industry.
Pursuing a Career in Fashion Design
Interested in a career in fashion design? Find out what it takes to break into the fashion business.
Here Comes the Bride… Dressed in the Gown You Learned to Design in Fashion School
You can build a successful fashion design career in wedding dress design by keeping an old wedding rhyme in mind.
Capture Your Work in a Fashion Design Portfolio
What are the most important things to consider when assembling your fashion design portfolio for your first fashion job? Read on for a list of tips.
A Fashion Career without Designing a Single Thing?
Fashion school prepares students for a myriad of fashion jobs, even jobs where grads won't sew or draw.
Helping Grown-Ups Get Dressed: Fashion Stylist Jobs
Think you could keep Kathy Griffin off the worse-dressed list? You could if you were a fashion stylist.
Succeed in Clothing Design
How can you embark on a career in clothing design? Read below to find out more.
New Designer Discoveries, Thanks in Part to Fashion Design School
Once you start going to fashion design school, your fashion design career could start any minute. So what are you waiting for?
Start Your Fashion Design Career � as a Student
The experience that fashion design students gain from attending fashion school ranges from experimenting with textiles to putting on a full-fledged fashion show.
Edgy Fashion Marketing Builds Diesel Design Career
Diesel fashion marketing spreads itself onto magazines and billboards across the globe. Discover how a fashion design career is built upon marketing and management that appeals to the conscientious consumer.
Options are Wider for Graduates of Fashion School
Retailers and fashion organizations ensure greater opportunity for the new student of fashion design.
Oscar Dresses -- Do the Stylists Need to Go Back to Fashion School?
The jury is still out on the fashion at this year's Oscars. Do you think the stylists got it right, or could you do a better job after fashion school?
Ella Moss: From Fashion Design Course to Fashion Career
Building a fashion career begins with a little creative genius and a solid dose of direction--one fashion design course after another. Discover how the name Ella Moss became recognizable through one designer's ambition and a fashion design degree.
Hunting For Cool: Get a Job in Fashion Marketing
We may be re-living the 80's right now, but fashion marketing experts AKA "cool-hunters" are discovering what happens in tomorrow's fashion scene.
International Fashion Design: India's Fashion Week Doubles
For the first time ever, Fashion Week in Dehli will happen twice in one year, representing the growth of fashion in India.
The Stuff That Sells: Be a Buyer with a Fashion Merchandising Degree
Do you have buyer's instinct? How about the drive for sales? With a fashion merchandising degree you can tackle any angle of the consumer's favorite marketplace: fashion design!
How to Make Your Clothing Design Famous
What's a surefire way to get your clothing design out there? It's simple: be different. Or, be the same! Your career in fashion design depends on it.
Retail Visual Merchandising: A Sight for Sore Eyes
Do you marvel at store windows in big cities? Visual merchandising is one of the most powerful ways of advertising a store's personality and clothing, making visual merchandising jobs both plentiful and critical to a company's success.
Creating Stylish Swimwear with a Fashion Degree
Different versions of the bikini have caused many of us to wonder what the folks with fashion jobs are thinking. With a fashion degree, you can do your part to keep fashion design looking up.
Giving Fashion Design an Identity: Learn How Brands Work
What is the difference, really, between the designer sweater and the Old Navy knock off? With a fashion merchandising degree you'll learn how the market works and how the fashion names survive.
The Latest in Fashion Design: Corn Clothing?
What's the latest development in fashion? You won't find it in Paris or Milan -- try Benson, MN instead.
Making People Beautiful as a Fashion Stylist
Can you really make a career out of making people beautiful? The answer is yes, in the world of fashion styling.
H&M Clothing: A Fashion Merchandising Career Moves West
H&M clothing company takes the price points of Gap and Old Navy and adds European fashion design to the market. Learn how the fashion merchandising career of this smart Swedish retailer is one of the best examples to follow if you are pondering fashion merchandising college.
Follow Celebrities to Create Your Fashion Design Career
Getting your fashion design career started may be as simple as stopping at the newsstand. Today, designer fashions are made famous by the celebrities who wear them. With a fashion design degree, you can make it your fashion job to inform the latest trends.
Buying for Fashion
Who doesn't love spending money? As a fashion buyer, you will have the joy and the responsibility to spend the right money on the right clothing.
Get Ahead in the Fashion World Through Summer Internships
In the design world, internships are great for your resume. What better way to learn than by designing?
Underneath it All: High-Fashion Lingerie
Be fashionable on the inside by launching your own lingerie boutique.
Buying the Right Fashions BEFORE they Hit the Stores
Do you find yourself drawn to fashion shows or watching 'Live from the Red Carpet' whenever a big Hollywood event rolls around? If so you may find a career waiting for you as a fashion buyer.
Online Clothing Boutiques Make Shopping a Snap
If you have a taste for high fashion and no time to shop for it, check out an online clothing boutique to save time and find what you're looking for -- fast.
Pattern Making Brings Your Style to Life
Try your hand at fashion design with a pattern making course.
Dress the Stars for Work in Costume Design
Take your fashion sense into the entertainment industry with a degree in costume design from fashion school.
Breathe Life into Fashion Through Fashion Merchandising
Do you love planning and strategy as much as fashion? A degree in fashion merchandising can prepare you for a challenging career in an exciting part of the fashion industry.
Footsteps to the Runway: How to Make a Fashion Design Career
Breaking into the fashion design scene isn't easy, so why not follow the example of those who have made it? Project Runway may be another reality T.V. show, but winner Chloe Dao has a very real fashion design career. Find out how it all began.
The Value of Fashion Design Certification
Earning your fashion design certificate is a great stepping stone toward your degree in fashion, allowing you to work in the industry while pursuing your degree.
TV Reveals the Best and Worst of Fashion Jobs
If you live in the UK and want to learn more about fashion design and fashion jobs, the TV is a great place to look right now.
Fashion Design: The Bigger the Name, the Bigger the Brand
The name is the brand: celebrity fashion crashes the design world.
Fashion Marketing Never Goes Out of Style
Fashion marketing is at the heart of the fashion industry.
Become a Make-up Artist
Becoming a make-up artist can lead to an exciting career in fashion, stage productions or film and television industries.
Textile and Apparel Design & Production
Textile and apparel production involves the manufacturing and production of clothing from your own designs, or the designs of fashion designers.
Design Your World
A degree in Graphic design will prepare you to become a part of a very multi-faceted industry.
Design, Drape, and Draw: Your Fashion Design Program
Fashion design is a balancing act between three important forces: imagination, skill, and business savvy. The right fashion design program will help you master them all.
Computer Assisted Design in Fashion
Computer assisted drafting and design techniques are revolutionizing the fashion design industry.
The Design Industry – Industrial Design
A degree in industrial design will prepare you to become a part of an exciting and diverse industry, designing many of the products we see and use every day.
Advertising
Working in the advertising field will allow you to use your designing skills to promote products and services to a mass market.
The Job of a Multimedia Designer
Multimedia design requires both creative and technical expertise. By developing these skills you can become qualified to compete for design positions in a number of industries.
Designing a Career
Industrial and product design is a unique field that includes the design and manufacturing of products from office equipment, to toys, and even cars.
Fashion Modeling – A Stylish Career
Fashion modeling is one of the most fiercely competitive industries in the world, but also one of the most lucrative.
Careers in Fashion Merchandising
There are a number of careers that fashion merchandising training can prepare you for, from sales and distribution to merchandise display.
The Job of Fashion Marketing
A career in fashion marketing requires you to be able to identify potential markets for the changing trends in fashion.
“The Job of Fashion Marketing”
A career in fashion marketing requires you to be able to identify potential markets for the changing trends in fashion.
The Job of a Fashion Designer
Fashion design jobs combine the basic skills learned in a fashion design program with your own ideas and creativity.
Summer Fashion Design: You Don’t Have to Look Like Paris Hilton to Look Good
When the sun comes out, the layers come off. Summer fashion design has the power to help the ordinary woman look good on the beach. If you want a career in fashion, it is a great opportunity to help those of us who don’t look like Paris Hilton to look good in the summer months.
Open Your Own Designer Boutique
If you're frustrated with the selection of clothing in your area, consider opening a designer boutique. It may not be as tough as you think.
Chewbacca Couture
The costumes of the Star Wars films are the precious gems of the costume and fashion design world.
P Diddy’s Fashion Career: Could Work Uniforms Be the Next Big Thing in the World of Bling?
Maybe it’s summer madness, but rumor has it that celebrity fashion designer P. Diddy has been asked to design new uniforms for a certain global fast-food chain. What next, you might ask - Britney Spears designing for Toysrus?
Fashion Designers Connect the High and the Low
In the world of fashion design, even a well known name like Stella McCartney has to work hard to sell her styles.
Fashion Personalities Part I: Classic and Romantic
At fashion design school, you will learn about the history of fashion and the styles that have prevailed throughout the ages. But do you know your own fashion personality?
Fashion Careers Part II: Runway or Racetrack?
A career in the fashion industry does not necessarily mean miniskirts and models. Today we take a look at two very different fashion careers that take you from the stage to the soccer field.
Fashion Design Careers Part I: The Job
The apparel industry did over 173 billion dollars of business in 2004. Fashion designers are the creative force behind all of those zeroes.
Fashion Designer Salaries
There are many types of fashion design jobs, which require different skills and different education and training. Accordingly, salaries in the fashion industry vary quite dramatically.
Fashion Design School: What you can Expect
Fashion design school can provide you with the creative and technical skills required to land an entry-level position as a designer. Learn more about what to expect in fashion design school and fashion design jobs.
A Fashion Career Reality Check
For a career in fashion design, a love of fashion and some good ideas are a good start. But, to turn this into a successful career, it’s important to find a fashion design program that gives you the skills you need.
Considering a Career in Fashion Merchandising
What you can do to launch a successful career in fashion management?
20 Questions with a Real-Life San Francisco Fashion Design Professional
Of course every fashion designer wants fame and fortune of the Hilfiger or Versace variety but very few fashion designers start at the top of the food chain. This month's feature focuses on the real life fashion career of Molly Scott, a red hot young fashion designer/merchandiser based in San Francisco. Molly is a fine example of what real working life is like for the young and ambitious fashion professional. Thank you Molly for taking the time to talk with us!
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