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• Fashion Design Career: Getting Started
• Fashion Journalism: Write Your Own Career Path
• Fashion Marketing: The Trendsetting Business
• Fashion Merchandising: A Career in the Fashion Business
• Fashion Retail Management: Career Training in the Business
• Fashion Visual Merchandising: Career Training for the Style Business
• The Four Hottest Fashion Jobs and the Career Training Information You Need to Get Them

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Fashion Design Career: Getting Started

Do you spend your free time doodling fashion ideas? Do you love putting clothing and accessories together in new ways? Fashion design could be the career for you. Fashion designers work on every phase of designing, showing, and producing clothing and accessories. A college degree in fashion design can give you the training to succeed in this glamorous career.

Fashion designers combine fashion savvy with creativity and technical skills. Their daily activities can include reading fashion magazines, attending fashion shows, sketching designs, looking at materials, and working with other designers.

Degree in Fashion Design

With a fashion degree, you can develop the skills you need to become a top-notch fashion designer. Typical coursework can include:

• Introduction to the fashion industry
• Design principles
• Textiles
• Menswear

Designing a Trendy Career

Fashion school graduates can qualify for many exciting jobs at the heart of the fashion world, from technical designers to design merchandisers to professional buyers and fashion coordinators. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the median annual salary of fashion designers in 2007 was $62,810 and top designers can make much more. Job competition is keen, but candidates with two- or four-year degrees have the best opportunities, according to the BLS.

• Bureau of Labor Statistics, "Fashion Designers"
• California Occupational Guide, "Fashion Designers"