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Fashion Designers
Designs clothing, shoes and accessories.
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Fashion designers sketch ideas, choose fabrics, make patterns and samples, and work with manufacturers. Many work for brands and retailers; some start their own labels or design costumes for theater and film.
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High school courses that build toward it
- Studio Art · Arts
Builds design and technical drawing, which this job uses.
- Engineering Design · Career and Technical
Builds design and technical drawing, which this job uses.
- English 10 · English
Builds reading and writing, which this job uses.
- Computer Science Principles · Computer Science
Builds computers and electronics, which this job uses.
- Geometry · Math
Builds design and technical drawing, which this job uses.
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Fashion Designers on O*NET OnLine · O*NET 31.0 (U.S. Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0); BLS Employment Projections 2025.