Fashion Job Categories — Page 4

Page 4 of the index is led by the import and category buyers — Import Buyer, Jeans Buyer, Juniors Buyer, the knit and knits fabric buyers and Lingerie Buyer — and by design leadership: Design Director, Fashion Design Director and Fashion Designer, with the Director of Color & CAD Design joining the illustrators and designers in between.

Marketing narrows to its senior end here (Public Relations Manager, Sales & Marketing Manager and the Vice President of Marketing), the miscellaneous group covers the support professions — Human Resources, Information Technology, fashion writing and styling, and the fashion industry intern — and production is hands-on textile work: embroiderers and embroidery digitizers, fabric cutters, developers and dyers, and mill workers. Sales turns to store and branded-apparel selling, and transportation closes the page with shipping, traffic and distribution management up to the Vice President of Distribution.

The Support Professions and the Textile Floor

A fashion business runs on more than its creative and buying teams, and this page’s miscellaneous group is the evidence: human resources staff who hire for every other group in this index, information technology staff who run the systems behind design, buying and logistics, and interns taking their first step into the industry. Their descriptions are useful reading for anyone entering fashion from another field, because they show which skills transfer directly.

Production on this page is the textile floor itself — cutting, developing, dyeing and embroidering fabric, and working in the mills where cloth is made. Those roles pair naturally with the traffic and transportation managers at the foot of the page, who schedule how finished goods move; together they describe the physical path a garment takes before any sales role touches it.