Where a fashion designer can go next
12 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a fashion designer already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Fashion designers work on designs for the haute couture and/or ready-to-wear, high street fashion markets, and more generally on items of clothing and fashion ranges. Fashion designers can operate in a specialised area, such as sportswear, childrenswear, footwear or accessories.
Professionals 21 skills on file 12 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: textile colourist, 34%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
- textile colourist 34% covered · difficulty 57.4
- textile designer 29% covered · difficulty 71.2
- textile pattern making machine operator 24% covered · difficulty 74.4
- knitter 23% covered · difficulty 68.5
- clothing fashion designer 22% covered · difficulty 79.2
- tufting operator 22% covered · difficulty 66.5
- carpet handicraft worker 22% covered · difficulty 71.8
- milliner 19% covered · difficulty 65.6
- furniture designer 19% covered · difficulty 76.2
- interior designer 19% covered · difficulty 79.1
- braiding machine operator 19% covered · difficulty 71.7
- textile sourcing merchandiser 18% covered · difficulty 78
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fashion designer is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a fashion designer already meets, counting required skills in full and supplementary ones at 0.35. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.