Fashion design is the art of creating clothing or accessories (“fashion”). Ideas are drawn up on paper, tweaked, refined, and finally created. At first, just one sample of the design is created, and sometimes it is left at that, however, when a great design has been created by the designer, it is sent in to mass production to be sold in stores, online, or through other mediums. http://www.fashion.net/howto/fashiondesigner/ http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos291.htm http://www.wisegeek.com/what-does-a-fashion-designer-do.htm

A fashion designer is the person who creates these designs, imagining up ideas for new, stylish clothing that many people will want to wear, or in some cases, unique piece for celebrities or costume pieces for movies or other special events. Included in fashion design is not just clothing like pants, shirts, and dresses, but also lingerie, shoes, outerwear, hats, and sometimes jewellery. http://www.fashion.net/howto/fashiondesigner/ http://www.wisegeek.com/what-does-a-fashion-designer-do.htm

Fashion designers often have an eye for style, and though some can be discovered with no experience or formal training, many aspiring fashion designers must perfect their skills by attending a fashion design school, or taking a fashion design course. This will teach aspiring designers to not only create tasteful clothing, but properly market, sew, and fit the clothing to become successful.http://www.stylecareer.com/fashion_designer.shtml http://www.fashion.net/howto/fashiondesigner/

Some of the more prominent names in the fashion design industry are Giorgio Armani, Marc Jacobs, Donna Karan, Kenneth Cole, and Kimora Lee Simmons amongst others. Their fashion lines may be priced from reasonable to extremely expensive, and can often be found in stores of the same name.