Fashion Job Categories — Page 6

Page 6 finishes the main run of outerwear buying (men’s and women’s Outerwear Buyer, following the outerwear entries on page 5) and adds Pants Buyer, Plus Size Buyer, Shirt Buyer and the Purchasing Agent. Design turns to accessories and graphics: Formalwear Designer, Girls Designer, Handbag Designer and a three-deep graphic design ladder from assistant to director, with the Footwear Merchandising Manager alongside.

The miscellaneous group on this page is operations and image-making — Makeup Artist, Photographer, Operations Coordinator and Manager, Order Entry, materials handling and development, and the President — while production is factory management and specialist making: Lace Knitting and Lace Weaving Managers, the Manufacturing Manager, Marker Making and the Oven Operator. Sales closes the page with the knit, menswear, women’s wear, woven and maternity sales manager roles. There is no transportation group on this page.

Graphics, Image-Making and the Factory

Graphic design gets unusual depth here — assistant, designer-level and director entries plus a general Graphic Design description — because graphics sit on the product itself: prints, logos, labels and packaging are designed work, and the ladder on this page shows how responsibility grows from executing artwork to directing it. The Photographer and Makeup Artist in the miscellaneous group belong to the same visual economy, presenting finished collections to buyers and customers.

Production balances that image work with making at scale. Marker making — laying pattern pieces out on cloth to waste as little fabric as possible — is one of the industry’s classic efficiency skills, and the lace knitting and weaving managers represent the specialist end of textile production, supervising machinery and makers whose skills take years to build.