Fashion designer

The term Fashion designers refers to those men and women who are look artists, but who dedicate themselves to the clothing area of creating personal looks.

Usually these professionals have to go to a college and get a degree in graphic arts.

Fashion designers usually tend to keep an eye on things going on world-wide to inspire themselves towards making their future clothes lines, but they can also be trend-setters and try to change the way people look around the world by coming with new ideas.

Usually a fashion designer's team includes hair dressers, make-up artists, modeling agencies and the model herself or himself.

Also many fashion designers have broken the tradition of dedicating themselves to clothes designing only and come out with perfume lines, becoming successful perfume designers too.

Many fashion designers use cities like Paris, London, Rome, New York, Dallas and Chicago as sites to show the world their talents.

Some of the most famous names in the world of fashion designing include:

• Carlota Alfaro[?]
• Oscar De La Renta
• Carolina Herrera[?]
• Donna Karan
• Ralph Lauren[?]
• Yves Saint-Laurent
• Gianni Versace[?] (murdered in 1994)
• Tom Ford