Video: What Is a Fashion Technical Designer?

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A fashion technical designer is a pattern maker who constructs the garments based on the illustrator's drawings. See how technical designers can work for fashion designers or work freelance with advice from a fashion designer, stylist and model in this free video on fashion jobs.

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A technical designer is similar to a pattern maker, that they actually from the fashion illustrator, once the image is drawn out. The pattern maker then produces what the image is, produces patterns of what the dress or ensemble would be. The technical designer is more specialized for the fittings, for the way it will turn out, once everything is sewn together. And they're able to make specific alterations from this. Technical designers could sometimes work freelance based or if they work actually with a company. They're the ones who generate the standard sizes and the standard shape for these companies. So if the technical designer works for more of a status company, they are generating or they're making a fit of that company. So you could actually, probably see a similarity within their styles and their collections. Because they use a pattern and then they just, small modifications, they create different looks for different locations. A fashion technical designer is very important and is very highly needed in larger companies. And something if you're definitely interested into, look more into, something that we need more.

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What Is a Fashion Technical Designer?

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