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What're the basic differences between being a Fashion designer and a Textile Designer?

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Question added by Sidrah Nadeem , Global Marketing Manager , Hill+Knowlton Strategies
Date Posted: 2014/03/06
Himani jadeja
by Himani jadeja , Designer For Kids and Teens , Anotag

The diffrence between a fashion designer and a textile designer is that a fashion designer deALS with finised fabric for making a outfits and a textile designer deals with the making of the fabric .... when threads are interlaced that is from left and right a piece of fabric is made ...textile designer designs fabrics .

Alexandru Nestian
by Alexandru Nestian , Chief of Operations Officer , MARSAY

Hey,

 

The fashion designer is in charge of the final design of the garments before they hit the catwalk and the stores. Usually works at the fashion company who launches the line of the collection. Based on fabric books given from suppliers (such as Holland Sherry, Dormeuil, Vitale Barberis or Loro Piana and so on) he chooses the combination of fabrics to match the design he has in mind. He is the visible creative part of the every fashion garment we see on the market.

 

On the other hand, the textile designer is the person in charge at the suppliers (the ones listed above) who is in charge of creating a fabric, going through all the steps : deciding the source of the raw material (Wool, silk, cashmere etc), the type of the fabric (plain, stripes, checkers) and the the colour and the design.  Compared to the fashion designer, the textile designer is the invisible creative part, the part we do not realize it took part in the creation process of our clothes.

RAJIV SENGUPTA
by RAJIV SENGUPTA , Director- Academic Planning & Operations , Gurukul School of Design

The end product of a Textile designer is usually the raw material for a Fashion designer!

While Textile designers primarily work on 2-D surfaces (design & construction); a Fashion designer is responsible for creating a human body covering/ clothing (3-D) from 2-Dimensional textile surfaces.

Abdul Majid
by Abdul Majid , Owner/Lead designer , Faith Associates

People here have described well in their answers to the question above and I have upvoted some of them as well, but one thing I want to add is that, textile design is not only fabric designing but it is a basic mood you pass on to the fashion designer who starts work on it to design final wearable product. Basic mood contains the surface design and colours of that fabric, the colours and theme of the fabric design will make the work easier for the fashion designer.

JYOTISH DAS
by JYOTISH DAS , Fashion Designer , ANAMIKA KHANNA

A fashion designer is a creative individual dedicated to the creation of a garment or series of garments & accessories (often referred to as a fashion line or collection). Fashion designers typically sketch concept drawings of pieces, as well as creating inspiration boards containing bits and pieces of particular designs, fabrics, color schemes, artwork etc that will help guide the overall design process. Once the designer has determined the direction for a collection, they work to source proper fabrics and hardware required to create the physical samples, and either create patterns and sew the pieces together themselves or hire/oversee pattern makers and seamstresses to produce the finished samples. In a larger supply chain, these samples can then be replicated by a factory for production.A textile designer, on the other hand, is solely tasked with creating the artwork for textiles (fabrics). Textile designers are usually skilled at setting up seamless design repeats so that entire bolts of fabric can be printed utilizing the same design prior to being cut and sewn into finished garments. In addition, textile designers are more likely to perform inter-industry work, developing designs for not only the fashion industry but also for use in the interior design industry, fine art exhibitions, and theatrical performances.

Hina Kanwal
by Hina Kanwal , Teacher , Allied school

fashion design is the art of application of design or natural beauty to clothing. while textile designing is essentially is the process for creation design for clothing for woven.

Muhammad Raihanul Mizan
by Muhammad Raihanul Mizan , Head of the Deapartment , Newcastle University College

Fashion designer plays with the change of style in human mind while textile designer provides the basic to the fashion desingner playing on that ground. Fachion designer looks for bodyline of the human while textile desingner looks for complexity in textiles to covers that bodyline.

abdul waqar waqar
by abdul waqar waqar , MANAGER TPU LAMINATION , UTOPIA INDUSTRIES PVT LTD

fashion desgin is totally depend on basic textile raw material like yarn , fiber and quality of fabric and quality of yarn which one suit for best fashion so first perority going on these textile raw material and quality

SHAHID EJAZ
by SHAHID EJAZ , Director sales and Alliances , Teximpex Inc

fashion designer conceive colors, styles as per the current internationl Fashion trends whereas Textiles designer  creates how to make that fabric by blending diffrent yarns, weaves, what color or yarn may be used in warp and the weft.

what kind of machine is eligible nut shell developing of fabric till its finishing.

Salah Esmaeil
by Salah Esmaeil , Textile Designer , Zahret El.Mehalla for Weaving

 

Textile design is the first stage of Fashion design Which is based on the design of the cloth used in garments in line with the purpose for designer

AHMED ADAM ABDELKARIM AHMED AWLAD EGAIDA
by AHMED ADAM ABDELKARIM AHMED AWLAD EGAIDA , مسئول مشتريات , عبدالمنعم الطبية CIMA-مصنع الادوية-الباقير

Fashion Design The design of fashion may be designed in that innovative and innovative entity in its lines, color spaces and various materials, which are cared for and designed to live according to the conditions of reality during beautiful formations.

A designer is a person who designs or creates something. Perhaps the broadest definition is provided by the psychologist Herbert Simon: "Everyone designs, which sets paths of action that aim to change existing conditions to those that are preferred."

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