Fashion Design Shock

Fashion design is the the term that related to the design of garments, fashion wear, clothings in general and lifestyle accessories.

Flashback to Fashion Design history, Charles Frederick Worth (born on 1826 and died1895) was the first fashion designer and not simply as a dressmaker. He was the first to put up a 'fashion house' in Paris, where a lot of young designers to be trained by him and were taught the skill and creativity that Frederick had with fashion manufacture.

Modern fashion design in general is comprised into two major categories which is 'haute couture' and 'ready-to-wear.' A designer's haute-couture collection is aimed for private customers and is custom made, cut and sewn. For a fashion house in which included to be an official 'haute couture' house, a fashion designer or company has to register with the Syndical Chamber for Haute Couture, a body of designers based in Paris and governed by the French Department of Fashion Industry that includes lots of international designers. An haute couture house is needed to show their fashion collections twice a year with a minimum number of 35 complete outfits in every show. They are always modeled on the catwalk and exhibited in private salons.

Ready-to-wear compilations are not custom made for private clientele. They appear in standard sizes, and this makes them more suit for mass productions. Ready-to-wear fashion collections can be further recognized as designers' collections and confection collections. Designer collections have a premium finish and an exclusive cut and design. The designer's ready-to-wear collection is also modeled on catwalks all around the world. Confection collections are the clothes that we usually see in shops. These collections are designed by fashion artists. The brands that produce confection collections solely target the mass markets.

As fashion has become increasingly a large industry, fashion artists have also ventured into the designing of products that accompany clothes or fashion accessories like perfume, handbags and foot wear. Fashion accessory also become a large industry following main fashion products and clothings.