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How many famous designer brands do you know? For example, Alexander Wang, Nepenthes, and Comme Des Garcon are known worldwide. However, you may wonder who creates and designs these clothing and footwear? It is a fashion designer. A fashion designer designs and makes clothing, apparel, and footwear in order to satisfy the consumers and follow trends.

Fashion designers are the people who created and designed the outfits that we are wearing now. A fashion designer plays different roles. There are different types of fashion designers: an apparel fashion designer, an accessory fashion designer, and a footwear fashion designer. The annual salary of a fashion designer is 20 million won. The annual salary can be somewhat less, so it differs according to whether a company is famous or not.

According to Virgil Abloh, the first black American designer working in Louis Vuitton, good design means expressing the essence of the brand and visualizing concept and color. Also, he said that creating good design means it's knowing its fashion design in detail. Moreover, an apparel fashion is categorized into haute couture and prêt-à-porter. Prêt-à-porter means apparel that we wear normally, while haute couture means apparel that emphasizes art.

If you want to be a fashion designer, there are some abilities that you should have. You should have creativity, a sense of style, artistic ability, and sewing skills. These abilities must be acquired, but sometimes you might possess these abilities naturally. If you hope to be a fashion designer, you should have discernment and capacity about reading the flow and seeing the image of fashion. Also, you should have a competitive spirit and patience.

Many design specialists think that the prospect of fashion designing is bright because these days fashion designers are in demand. Many experts, for the same reason, view fashion designer as a job that will develop and will become more famous in the future.