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fashion designer

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.

Job Zone 3 — Medium Preparation NeededHolland code ARE21 skills on file

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Job Zone

Zone 3: Medium Preparation Needed

Medium preparation. Vocational training, related on-the-job experience, or an associate degree, with one to two years of training that combines experience and informal instruction.

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Occupational interest profile

AREArtistic · Realistic · Enterprising — the three strongest interests, in order

A Artistic7.00
R Realistic4.34
E Enterprising3.96
C Conventional2.94
S Social2.35
I Investigative2.17

RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.

Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Fashion Designers (27-1022.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its exact O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.

Typically associated skills

Essential (19)

ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.

Optional (2)

O*NET equivalents

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ESCO occupations that share the most of this occupation's 19 essential skills. A plain count, not a hidden score.

textile designer
6 shared · 13 more of its ownkeep up to date on costume design, portfolio management in textile manufacturing, use textile technique for hand-made products, seek innovation in current practices
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clothing fashion designer
5 shared · 7 more of its owndesign wearing apparel, produce textile designs, keep up to date on costume design, portfolio management in textile manufacturing
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textile pattern making machine operator
4 shared · 7 more of its ownmodify textile designs, produce textile designs, textile techniques, properties of textile materials
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interior designer
4 shared · 17 more of its ownmonitor textile manufacturing developments, collaborate with designers, use specialised design software, gather reference materials for artwork
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digital artist
4 shared · 19 more of its ownmonitor developments in technology used for design, use specialised design software, gather reference materials for artwork, art history
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set designer
4 shared · 40 more of its owndevelop design ideas cooperatively, monitor developments in technology used for design, use specialised design software, gather reference materials for artwork
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3 shared · 8 more of its ownproduce textile designs, use textile technique for hand-made products, properties of textile materials
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This page includes information from the O*NET 31.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA), used under the CC BY 4.0 license; O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. ESCO occupations and skills are from the European Commission's ESCO classification, and the occupation crosswalk is the official ESCO–O*NET mapping by the ESCO Secretariat with USDOL/ETA. This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission. BlissPoint Analytics has modified all or some of this information: skill, task and descriptor ratings are rounded to one decimal, and ESCO occupations show Job Zone and interests copied from a crosswalked O*NET occupation. USDOL/ETA has not approved, endorsed, or tested these modifications.