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How is it different to work in corporate world or a freelancer as a Fashion Designer?

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Dr Aparna
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Thank you for choosing Mera career guide and writing to us. I am glad to guide you through fashion designing careers today. I hope my perspective will serve you with better understanding of the fashion industry functions.

Fashion designers market majorly in two areas. One is focused on high quality piece work mainly targeting the bollywood. The products produced for this sector are of very high quality and accordingly the price also reflects. The other segment is focused to serve people from all ranges of the society and here you can find designers targeting middle range to higher societies. They fix prices that reflect the quality and ranges as well.

There are two options to work in fashion designing industry. One is a designer attached to a specific garment company or designing studio and the other is being a freelancer. I can brief on these two areas.

1. Working for a garment company: Working for a garment company requires you to follow up the instructions given by your authorities in designing a particular garment. Very few companies let their employees to explore their taste and creativity in fashion designing. You are mostly expected to follow the rules and regulations that your supervisors put on you for processing bulk orders. It could be a daily routine work with less creativity to play. But this is the place where most fashion designers start initially. They initially work for a company to be trained in handling various garments and also to earn some money. They prefer earning good money for a period of few years and after they gain considerable expertise and money, they go on to start their own designing studio and be a freelancer.

2. Being a freelancer: A freelancer in fashion designing could be a happiest soul I would say. As a freelancer he could explore his creativity on his garments. He is free to use his own techniques, fabric and designs. He has no bosses to force him to change the designs he made. A freelancer could produce his own products with his degree of expertise and interest. He could also set up his own studio or sell his products to other designing studios. In my opinion, being a freelancer is more enjoyable compared to working in specific company. The only disadvantage of being a freelancer is, they dont have fixed income every month. They cannot expect a fixed salary month on month as one month they could do well in sales and the next month they could be pretty less in sales.

Hope this helps.

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