Fashion designers design clothing and accessories. Some high-fashion designers are self-employed and design for individual clients. Other high-fashion designers cater to specialty stores or high-fashion department stores. These designers create original garments, as well as those that follow established fashion trends. Most fashion designers, however, work for apparel manufacturers, creating designs of men’s, women’s, and children’s fashions for the mass market. Designer brands, which have a ‘name’ as their brand such as Calvin Klein or Ralph Lauren, are likely to be designed by a team of individual designers under the direction of a designer director.
