Fashion designer jobs in Finland
Fashion designers work on designs for the haute couture and/or ready-to-wear, high street fashion markets, and more generally on items of clothing and fashion ranges. Fashion designers can operate in a specialised area, such as sportswear, childrenswear, footwear or accessories.
Fashion designer - Which skills are essential?
Identify and explore recent developments in technology and materials used in the live performance industry, in order to create an up-to-date technical background for one’s personal design work.
Using textile technique to produce hand-made products, such as carpets, tapestry, embroidery, lace, silk screen printing, wearing apparel, etc.
Identify different target markets for new designs, considering factors such as age, gender, and socioeconomic status.
Keep up to date with recent developments in textile manufacturing and processing techniques and technologies.
Developing new designs mastering specialised software.
Have a good understanding of the properties of different textile materials.
The process of managing teams and projects in textile and clothing product development.
The history of art and artists, the artistic trends throughout centuries and their contemporary evolutions.
Make up textile samples or have them fabricated by specialised workers or technicians.
Edit sketches and digital textile designs until they meet up with customers' requirements.
Draw sketches for textile design, by hand or on computer, using specialist Computer Aided Design (CAD) software.
Costumes and the cultural traditions around clothing.
Communicate and collaborate with fellow designers in order to coordinate new products and designs.
Use analytical skills, creativity, and recognise future trends in order to design wearing apparel.
Gather samples of the materials you expect to use in the creation process, especially if the desired piece of art necessitates the intervention of qualified workers or specific production processes.
Have a thorough understanding of textile processing techniques.
Search for improvements and present innovative solutions, creativity and alternative thinking to develop new technologies, methods or ideas for and answers to work-related problems.
Share and develop design ideas with the artistic team. Conceptualise new ideas independently and with others. Present your idea, gain feedback and take it into account. Make sure the design fits with the work of other designers.
Fashion designer - Which skills are useful but not essential?
Processes involved in textile dyeing using different dyeing technologies. Also, addition of colours to textile materials using dye stuffs.
Coordinate the artistic activities with others who are specialised in the technical side of the project. Inform the technical staff of the plans and methods suggested and obtain feedback on feasibility, cost, procedures and other relevant information. Be able to understand the vocabulary and practises concerning technical issues.