Fashion Designer
jade brown
Period 5
What is it?
• A fashion designer designs clothes for people to wear.
• There are many different areas of fashion design, including women’s wear, men’s wear, and couture, among others.
• My ideal career is to specialize in couture. I chose this career because it is a way to transform pure art into a wearable form.
Haute Couture
• Couture is a type of fashion which focuses on the aesthetic rather than the practical.
• Some well-known coutriers include Dior, Prada, Yves Saint Laurent, and Versace.
• A single couture dress can take three months to make.
Colleges
• There are many excellent art colleges all over the country, which offer classes on all kinds of arts, including fashion design.
• If you live in northern California and are looking to build a substantial career in the arts, San Francisco is one of the best places to go. It has a good selection of some of the highest-rated art schools in the state, and numerous opportunities for employment and to showcase your work.
Salary
• Average Annual Wage: California--$64,069 U.S.--$56,340
• Average Hourly Wage: California--$30.80 U.S.--$27.09
Skills needed for this job
Reading Comp. Active Listening Writing Speaking Math Critical Thinking Active Learning Learning Strategies Monitoring
-all mid-level importance
Secondary Career
• My alternative career choice is to be an artist.
Why did I choose this?
• I chose ‘artist’ as a secondary career because, while it is something I enjoy doing and am fairly good at, it is much harder to make a living from.
• The distinction between the fine arts and other arts is that they are simply for visual enjoyment and have no practical use.
• ‘Fine arts’ is a broad category which denotes a spectrum of subcategories, including these: Painting, Sculpting, Drawing, and others.
Salary
• Average Annual Wage: California--$44,417 U.S.--$38,330
• Average Hourly Wage: California--$21.35 U.S.--$18.43
Skills needed for this job
Speaking--medium Active Listening-med. Active Learning--med. Reading comp.--low Writing--low Math--low Science--low Critical Thinking--low
Learning Strategies-low