Overcoming The Challenge Of Unemployment By Acquiring Vocational skills/IT skills- Series one; Day 3- Fashion Design
Unemployment has become a major issue in our society. Unemployment means the involuntary idleness of workers. That’s to say that there are people skilled enough to work but without an organization to employ them.
While everyone awaits that government job, oil company job, and a million-dollar job, there are skills one can venture into to make ends meet.
One of those skills is Fashion and design.
A fashion designer makes clothes, creating a style from inspiration and bringing to life what he or she had imagined.
Therefore fashion design is the art of applying to design, aesthetics, clothing construction, and natural beauty to clothing and its accessories.
Now fashion designing cuts across many areas;
Fashion tutor
Fashion illustrator
Tailoring
Merchandising
Trend forecaster
Stockist etc.
Tailoring has lots of categories.
Bespoke tailoring or made to measure where you have work with clients who bring in fabrics of their choice for you to sew.
Ready to wear or pret a porter deals with mass production of outfits. Here one outfit can be produced in 100 pieces and then distributed to the various markets. These pieces fall under what we know as the ready-made outfit.
To be a fashion designer, one has to get proper education and training.
From learning the skill to getting a diploma or a degree.
Whichever works for you, learn the skill.
Here are various platforms that can help you learn the art of fashion designing.
Youtube
Adobe illustrator
Swatchon
Clo 3d
Vogue runway
WGNS etc.
Written By. Mrs. Esther Edidiong /Photo: John Cameron [Unsplash], ©www.cymi.org.ng https://web.facebook.com/groups/cymiofficial
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