Fashion Job Categories — Page 2

Page 2 of the Fashion Job Categories index continues each category group into its next range of roles. Buying moves on to Children’s Wear Buyer, Department Store Buyer and the dress, dress shirt and fabric buyers. Design adds the digital side of the studio — CAD Artist and CAD Designer — alongside Branded Clothing Designer, Bridge Fashion Designer and Childrenswear Designer.

Marketing on this page is the editorial and publicity end of the business: Fashion Editor, Fashion Publicist, Fashion Writer and International Marketing Coordinator. The miscellaneous group covers Customer Service, the Divisional Merchandise Manager, E-commerce, EDI and fashion and textiles educators, while planning covers merchandise planners and planning managers, production covers pattern makers and the Color Chemist, sales is devoted to menswear, and transportation runs from Distribution Manager and Forklift Operator to the Global Supply Chain Manager and Logistics Manager.

Digital and Editorial Roles Appear Here

Two shifts in how the fashion industry works show up clearly on this page. The first is digital design and trading: CAD artists and designers produce the technical drawings and digital patterns modern ranges are built from, CAD pattern cutters turn them into production-ready work, and the E-commerce and EDI roles in the miscellaneous group run the electronic channels and data interchange that orders now flow through. The second is the weight of editorial and publicity work — editors, publicists and writers shape how collections are presented to the trade and the public, and the International Marketing Coordinator extends that presentation across borders.

Set against those newer roles, this page also carries the industry’s logistics backbone in strength: freight forwarding assistants and managers, distribution managers and supply chain managers are the people who move finished garments from factory to store, and their descriptions are worth reading alongside the buying and planning roles they support.