Fashion Design Schools
If you love clothes, you spend hours planning your outfits, you like to sketch ideas for dresses, suits, or hats, you enjoy sewing your own apparel and you love fashion magazines, then you have what you need to become a fashion designer.
Fashion designers work in a variety of capacities, from serving apprenticeships with established high-fashion houses to heading their own small companies.
Some elementary and high schools take fashion seriously. They offer kids classes to sharpen their design skills and give them hands-on experience with fabric, color, and merchandising –the process through which products are designed, developed, marketed, and sold.
The Fashion Institute of Technology takes up a whole block on Seventh Avenue, right in the heart of America´s fashion capital, New York City. It offers courses in art, design, technology, and business to prepare students to enter the fashion industry.
Technology in Fashion Design
Ever since the sewing machine revolutionized fashion in the mid nineteenth century, designers and manufacturers have been adapting technology (especially computers) to assist them in their businesses.
Computer-aided manufacturing, or CAM, is especially useful in the development and manufacturing of textiles. Not only are textile patterns designed on computers, the new technology is used to figure out weaving sequences and to run machinery. That results in cheaper, faster, and more streamlined fabric manufacturing, which allows for more economically produced clothing.
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