CAREER GUIDE FOR FASHION DESIGNER

  Standard Occupational Description: Design clothing and accessories. Create original garments or design garments that follow well established fashion trends. May develop the line of color and kinds of materials.

SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE, ABILITIES AND TASKS (Technical and Functional Expertise)

1 - Skills

  Note: The technical and functional skills listed below are based on general occupational qualifications for Fashion Designer commonly recognized by most employers. Typically, you will not be required to have all of the skills listed to be a successful performer. Recruitment and selection standards for an individual state job must be based on the specific knowledge, skills, and abilities for that job as indicated in the job announcement and job description in the Employee Work Profile.

Children and fashion: contextualizing issues, changing times

  There are three interlinked issues that need to be examined before starting to analyse the primary data that have been collected with children themselves.2 These are: contemporary consumer culture and its obsession with celebrity, the children’s wear market and its transition from traditional children’s clothing to more adultlike styling, and the status of the ‘tweenager’ as a significant social actor and consuming force.

Fashion Design : The Paradox and the Public Domain

Fashion Design

  Although some scholars argue that today fashion design should be protected under intellectual property rights, some scholars make arguments that the protection of fashion design is meaningless. Only in an environment of weak IP protection of fashion design, the public domain can be extended. One of the most famous arguments is called “piracy paradox”.

A. Piracy Paradox Theory and Fashion Design

  Since the born of intellectual property rights, it has been developing with balancing the private rights and public interests. However, usually it is hardly to find a proper balance point between the private rights and public interests in practice. Piracy Paradox argues that scholars shall pay more attention to the public interests and less attention to the private rights to fashion design protection. In other way, “[w]eaken individual designers and strengthen the industry and drives its evolution.”