FASHION DESIGN TERMS

· A fashion designer conceives garment combinations of line, proportion, color, and texture. He or she may or may not know how to sew or make patterns. Formal training is always essential, yet most fashion designers are formally trained (apprenticed) and schooled.
· A pattern maker drafts the shapes and sizes of a garment's pieces with paper and measuring tools, and, some times, an AutoCAD computer software program, or by draping muslin on a dress form, the original way. The resulting pattern pieces must compose the intended design of the garment and they must fit the intended wearer.
Formal training is essential for working as a pattern marker.
· A tailor makes custom designed garments made to the client's measure; suits (coat and trousers, jacket and skirt, et cetera).
· A textile designer designs fabric weaves and prints for clothes and furnishings. Most textile designers are formally trained as apprentices and in school.
· A stylist is the person who co-ordinates the clothes, jewelry, and accessories used in  fashion photography and catwalk presentations of clothes collections. A stylist also is a designer whose designs are based upon extant things, trends, and the collections of other designers.
· A buyer orders stocks of clothes for shops, chain stores, and other types of stores. Most fashion buyers are trained in business studies.
· A seamstress sews seams wither manually or with a sewing machine, either in a garment shop or as a sewing machine operator in a factory. She (or he) may not have the skills to make (design and cut) the garments, or to fit them on a model. A seamstress is not synonymous with dressmaker.
· A teacher of fashion design teaches the art and craft of fashion in art schools and in fashion design school.
· A custom clothier makes custom-made garments to order, for a given customer.
· A dressmaker specializes in custom-made women's clothes: day, cocktail, and evening dresses, business clothes and suits, trousseaus, sports clothes, and lingerie.
· An illustrator draws and paints clothes for commercial use.
· A model wears and displays clothes at fashion shows and in photographs.
· A fashion journalist writes fashion articles describing the garments presented, for magazines or newspapers.
· An alterations specialist (alterationist) adjusts the fit of completed garments, usually ready-to-wear, and sometimes re-styles them. NOTE: despite tailors altering garments to fit the client, not all alterationists are tailors.
· A wardrobe consultant or fashion advisor recommends styles and colors that are flattering to the client.
· A photographer photographs the clothes on fashion models for use in magazines, newspapers, or adverts.