Trendsetter: Have You Got What It Takes to Be a Fashion Designer? by Lisa Thompson (2008, Hardcover)

Key Details
Author:	Lisa Thompson
Language:	English
Publisher:	Compass Point Books
Series:	On the Job
Format:	Hardcover
ISBN-10:	0756536227
ISBN-13:	9780756536220

Size
Length:	48 pages
Height:	9.3 in
Width:	6.3 in
Thickness:	0.3 in
Weight:	8 oz

Publisher's Note
Details the required skills and education needed to be a fashion designer, with a look at day-to-day activities and the steps involved in creating and showing a designer collection at Fashion Week in New York City.

Go behind the scenes of today's hottest careers. You'll discover what it takes to make it and how much fun the work can be! Do you think you'd like to: turn fashion sketches into real clothes and accessories? become an expert in color and pattern? use your creativity in designing new styles and fashions? organize and stage a fashion show? Then fashion design might be the job for you! Read on to discover what skills are needed for the job, what's in a day's work, and where fashion design can take you. You'll also learn how the clothes in your closet are designed, created, and sold. Whether designing costumes, creating accessories, or running a fashion label, fashion designers find many opportunities to share their sense of style.

With an inviting contemporary design, each book in this career-planning series details the required skills and education for an array of professions while also providing a glimpse at day-to-day activities and little-known facts about each field.