Fashion Designers

If you spend endless hours poring through fashion magazines or putting together your own new looks, you may want to consider a career in fashion design. Using their flair for color and style, designers create trendy new fashions as well as practical garments, such as sportswear. Fashion design is also a labor of love, requiring long hours and little chance of superstardom -- but for many, the work itself is the reward.

Fashion designers use flair and know-how to create everything from hospital uniforms to the eye-popping outfits worn by rock stars and models.

Are You Ready To...?

• Invent new designs
• Choose fabrics
• Attend fashion shows
• Collaborate with a team
• Keep up with trends
• Work hard to build a career and keep it

It Helps To Be...

Full of drive and ambition: the glamorous allure of the fashion world draws a lot of competition. You’ll also need to have the talent and the artistic vision to back it up.

Make High School Count

• Study art. It will help you develop the eye for color, design, and proportion that you’ll need.
• Sign up for home ec and learn how to sew.
• Sharpen your math skills: measurement and proportion are fundamental to good design.
• Try your hand at costuming by working on the school play.