Resume Skills and Keywords for Fashion Designer

Fashion designers create designs for clothing, shoes, and accessories. They identify trends and choose styles, fabrics, colors, prints, and trims for a collection. Haute couture or ready-to-wear apparel is created by fashion designers. They are in charge of the complete look of the item of clothing. Sketching out a new design, determining the type of fabric to use, showcasing the piece at an event, and devising a manufacturing plan are just a few of the key responsibilities of a fashion designer. Art director and chief designer are two positions that a fashion designer could advance to.

Skills required for a fashion designer role:

  • Fabric and Color Sense 
  • Designing Techniques and Tools 
  • Pattern Making and 
  • Garment Construction 
  • Fashion Merchandising 
  • Product Specification 
  • Fashion Ornamentation
  • Design and conceptual skills
  • Construction techniques
  • Organization
  • Time management

What recruiters look for in a fashion designer resume: 

  • Created or visualised an idea and produced a design by hand or using computer-aided design (CAD).
  • Liaised closely with sales, buying and production teams on an ongoing basis to ensure items suit the customer, market and price points
  • Understood design from a technical perspective, i.e. producing patterns and technical specifications for designs. 

What can make your fashion designer resume stand out:

A strong summary that demonstrates your skills, experience and background in the fashion sector 

  • Organised, motivated and creative fashion enthusiast, skilled at hand drafting and designing fashion apparel. Endowed with excellent color sense and artistic presentation skills, looking for a highly professional fashion organisation to give my career a push start in the fashion industry and contribute to bringing in new trends of fashion. 

Targeted job description 

  • Manage design process from conception through to final styling.
  • Conduct market research to identify new trends, fabrics and techniques, and seek design inspiration.
  • Collaborate with team members to select seasonal themes, make edits to line, and create new concepts. 

Related academic background 

  •  B.Sc. (Fashion & Apparel Design) | Linking Parks Institute of Fashion and Hand Crafting | 2018
  • Higher Secondary | Shree Ram Public School | 2015  
  • Senior Secondary | Shree Ram Public School |  2013 

Sample Resume of Fashion Designer in Text Format 

NOOR KAUR 

Fashion Designer and Stylist 

6574539222 | noorkaur@gmail.com | https://www.linkedin.com/in/noor kaur-5186785798 | Y-88 New Lands, Ludhiana 

SUMMARY

Organised, motivated and creative fashion enthusiast, skilled at hand drafting and designing fashion apparel. Endowed with excellent color sense and artistic presentation skills, looking for a highly professional fashion organisation to give my career a push start in the fashion industry and contribute to bringing in new trends of fashion. 

SKILLS ( TECHNOLOGY / FUNCTIONAL ) 

  • Fabric and Color Sense 
  • Designing Techniques and Tools 
  • Pattern Making and 
  • Garment Construction 
  • Fashion Merchandising 
  • Product Specification 
  • Fashion Ornamentation 

EXPERIENCE / INTERNSHIP 

Gateway Fashion Retailers 

Fashion Style Intern | Jun 2017 – Aug 2017 

  • Learned the basics of designing apparel in bulk for selling across the retail market. Acquired knowledge of correct fabric usage and types of fabrics. 
  • Closely worked with clients to assist seniors in suggesting designs as per client's personality. 
  • Researched and remained current on latest fashion and styling trends.  

Lina Fashion Designers 

Intern | May 2016 – Jul 2016 

  • Observed senior designers in their designing pursuits and helped them with stitching and cutting. 
  • Worked with customers on understanding their specific requirements and ensured on time garment delivery. 

EDUCATION

  •  B.Sc. (Fashion & Apparel Design) | Linking Parks Institute of Fashion and Hand Crafting | 2018
  • Higher Secondary | Shree Ram Public School | 2015  
  • Senior Secondary | Shree Ram Public School |  2013 

PROJECTS 

Bihar Khadi Project 

  • Development of Dying & Printing, Design , Capacity Building, Production of Value Added Khadi Apparel and Branding of Bihar Khadi. 
  • Directed efforts towards enhancing Bihar Khadi to meet global standards. 

PROFESSIONAL ENHANCEMENTS 

Awards

  • Won 1st prize in the ‘Best Print Design’ competition during the Fashion Fest at the University. 

Certifications 

  • Completed 100 days training of the Graphic Editor "CorelDRAW". 

Seminars 

  • Attended a Seminar on the topic ‘Use of accessories on Woollen fabrics’ by Designer RN Dutta. 
  • Attended a seminar on "Color Coordination with a touch of Accessories". 

EXTRA-CURRICULAR 

Positions of Responsibility 

  • Organized the ‘Fashion Show 3G’ at the University.