A fashion designer has to be inspirational in creating designs fitting to various periods, revamp colours fitting to a particular season.Each season has its own theme respective to style,colour,fabric selections ,a designer has to prudently decide all these requirments and translate accordingly.Creating different styles can be done using fashion softwares like designerfashion.biz digitalfashiondesignerpro.com.
Information/research on trend can be collected by studying past history of costumes,study of designers ,reading runway reports through newsletters,generating consumer survey.Colour trends can be predicted using PANTONE ,Priemere Vision ,CBI Fashion forecast reports.Research report ,various calendar of events on trend analysis can be found from web sites as apparelsearch.com , infomat.com , philau.edu , library.kent.edu , www2.lib.udel.edu apart from this one can read various blogs/runways freearticles.
Cultural transformation plays a vital role in deciding trend art,music,movies gives clues also newspaper/magazine coloumns directs the trend.Magazines like Agenda ,Fashion Insider ,Fashion Online ,Fashionoffice , Vogue , Elle , Glamour ,Harper & Bazzar , JC Report ,Trendzine similarly newspapers like New york Times ,Telegraph ,International Herald,Washington Post ,Vancouver Sun ,Newyorker .
TV shows in CNN.COM/BBC host shows on fashion pursuing catalogues/web sites of designers/retailers can lead to creative ideas.Retailers catalogue of Ralph Lauren,H&M ,Zara are note worthy.Participating in conferences,designers meet ,travelling ,inqusitive for collecting various fabrics recording all the information is important.
A few more web sites on Fashion,Style ,Runways are couturefashionweek.com , edwingdangelo.com , romanitza.ro , soucha-hc.com.With all the clues deciding the right trend using personal intution/observation skills will make a successful designer.
Continuous learning in various aspects of innovation happening at technology makes a designer competetive.Various professional organizations provides tools to keep latest in technology as fibres,weaves,finishing,colouration,management,environment.
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