Title: Fashion Designer Careers | The Princeton Review
Headings: Fashion Designer
Fashion Designer
A Day in the Life of a Fashion Designer Careers
Paying Your Dues to Become a Fashion Designer
Present and Future Outlook for Fashion Designer Careers
Quality of Life
PRESENT AND FUTURE
FIVE YEARS OUT
TEN YEARS OUT
MAJORS

Content: The hours are long for a fashion designer, and the initial pay is very limited. This is one of those hit-or-miss occupations where beginners work as someone’s assistant until, when they can muster up enough confidence in their abilities and sell that confidence to their superiors, they design a few pieces themselves. The superstar rise is an unlikely event, but it happens. Based on the number of “international star designers” in the last 10 years and the number of people who have entered the profession, the estimated odds of becoming an internationally famous designer are roughly 160,000:1. Present and Future Outlook for Fashion Designer Careers
With the invention of the sewing machine by Elias Howe in 1846, cheap reproducible garments became available to the public. Individuals could rapidly design and commission their own wardrobes. Fashion opened up to the public. At its highest levels, called “couture,” fashion is available only to the wealthy—couture dresses and gowns can sell for more than $20,000 each. But the concept of fashion, applied to the world at large, has become a democratic principle. As the fashion market expands, some predictors hold that pockets of smaller, more unique brands of clothing will be marketed over television, the Internet, and the mail.