Fashion Design Career Research Project

Directions:  Once you are ready to start your assignment click on Furguson’s Career Guidance Center.  Once you reach the site type in the word “fashion”.  Your objective is to evaluate the various opportunities in the fashion world.  Please obtain your user name and password for Furgeson's Career Guidance Center from the media center.

 A.)    Once you have researched the information on the field of fashion select three areas of interest.  Rate your areas of interest from one to three. 

 B.)   Include the following information:

                     Duties

 Salary Range

Employment Prospects

 Advancement Prospects

Education Training

 Skills/Traits

Experience

Geographical Hot Spots

C.)  Research a fashion design school of your interest:

                                                       Schools 

Additional Information

WEB:

 A Guide to all things chic:  fashion, luxe living, shopping, art and work.

Fashion 

BOOKS:

746.9 GEA                    

           Gearhart, Susan Wood.  Opportunities in modeling careers.

                Lincolnwood, Ill. : VGM Career Horizons, c1999.  Discusses

                qualifications for modeling, tips for breaking into the

                field, and career opportunities.

  746.9 GIA                    

           Giacobello, John.  Careers in the fashion industry.  1st ed.  New

                York : Rosen Pub. Group, 1999.  Provides information about

                the educational requirements, employment opportunities, and

                creative potential within the world of fashion.

  746.9 GOL                    

           Golbin, Pamela.  Fashion designers.  New York : Watson-Guptill,

                2001, c1999.  Traces the history of fashion from 1947 to the

                present, profiling the most popular trends and designers.

  746.9 SUM                    

           Summers, Barbara, 1944-.  Black and beautiful : how women of

                color changed the fashion industry.  1st Amistad pbk. ed.

                New York : Amistad Press, 2001.  Text and photos chronicle

                the history of Black women in the fashion industry,

                providing profiles of models and discussion changes in the

                industry from the 1920s through the start of the

                twenty-first century.

  746.9 WAT                    

           Watson, Linda.  Vogue fashion : 100 years of style by decade and

                designer.  London : Carlton Books, 2001.  Presents a

                decade-by-decade look at twentieth-century fashion, and

                includes alphabetically arranged profiles of 250 notable

                designers.

  746.92 EVE                   

           Everett, Felicity.  Fashion design.  American ed.  London :

                Usborne, 1987.  Explores the technical and artistic aspects

                of fashion design and includes a guide to fashion

                illustration.

  746.92 GIA                   

           Giacobello, John.  Choosing a career in the fashion industry.

                1st ed.  New York : Rosen, 2000.  Provides information about

                the fashion industry, common careers in fashion, and how to

                prepare for them.