Your day-to-day tasks may include:

• working to design instructions
• analysing or predicting trends in fabrics, colours and shapes
• producing concept and mood boards (a collection of items to capture a mood, like photos, fabric pieces or colour samples)
• producing designs by hand or by using computer-aided design (CAD)
• developing basic shapes ('blocks') through patterns
• estimating costs for materials and manufacture
• finding suppliers
• supervising the making up of sample clothing items
• making in-house presentations, for example to finance departments and merchandisers

You could work in a workshop or in a creative studio.

With experience you could progress to senior designer, head of a department (like head of women's wear design) or design director.

You could also go freelance or start your own company.