My chosen career is a clothing designer. Before you want to go into this job just know clothing designing involves creating ideas for clothing and other fashion items such as bags, belts and hats. Clothing designers usually specialise in one area [of the fashion company]. There are no specific secondary educational requirements to become a clothing designer, but NCEA Level 2 in: technology, maths, English and art is preferred and there is about 1-3 years of training required. To become a clothing designer, a certificate, diploma or degree in fashion or textile design is recommended. To be a clothing designer you also need some personal requirements.
Some personal requirements you need are... to be creative and imaginative, motivated and dedicated, organised, confident, adaptable, able to work well under pressure, accurate, with an eye for detail; some of these are because if you were boring and you didn't know what the latest fashion was then you would make your client or the person you are designing for embarrassed to wear this, and they would be not happy. If you would like this job there are also some useful experiences so that you would have more of a chance to get into the job.
Lots of the useful experiences include having up-to-date knowledge of clothing styles (knowing what the trends are), knowledge of the history of fashion, design and drawing skills, knowledge of fabric types, colours and fabric care. These are important because if you don't have these personal requirements you might not have a good chance of getting into a job that involves this stuff, but if you do you will have a good chance of getting in.
I feel this would be a good job for me since I enjoy things like sewing and textiles and I feel I am very creative and have some drawing skills and have most of the personal requirements along with those two.
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