Design Job Descriptions — Letter W
Design and merchandising job descriptions beginning with W
Five design job descriptions begin with the letter W, in two families. The window pair — Window Design and Window Display — cover the conception and the physical building of store windows, fashion's most public stage. The other three belong to cloth and clothing: the Womenswear Designer, designing for the largest market in fashion, and the two woven specialists, Woven Fabric Designer and Woven Garment Designer, whose work divides between creating woven cloth and designing garments specifically in it. All five are linked below, each with its own full description.
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W — Design Roles
Two Crafts Behind One Window
Window Design and Window Display are deliberately separate descriptions, because they are separate kinds of work. The design page covers the conception: briefs, themes, sketches, models, prop specification and the seasonal window calendar, done at a desk or drawing board months ahead. The display page covers the realisation: building, rigging, dressing mannequins, focusing lights and overnight installation, done in the glass itself. Careers cross between them often, but employers hire the two skill sets distinctly, and the directory respects that.
The Woven Specialists and the Womenswear Designer
The remaining W roles reward a similar distinction. A woven fabric designer creates cloth — weave structures, yarns and colourways produced with mills — while a woven garment designer creates clothing designed around woven fabrics' behaviour, a different discipline from knit or jersey design. Between them sits the womenswear designer, the generalist of the group, designing garments for the women's market across fabrics and categories. The textile woven designer description under T is a close relative of the woven fabric page.
How to Use This Letter
Follow the role links above for the two window crafts, which are complete in this part of the directory, and for the womenswear and woven descriptions as they appear in the letter's full listing. The links below are the employment resources that surrounded this index: agencies, search engines, the category directory, industry news and the fashion directory. The alphabet bar above reaches the other letters of the design directory, and the block at the foot of the page reaches the other job description categories.
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Common Questions
Which design job descriptions begin with W?
Five: Window Design, Window Display, Womenswear Designer, Woven Fabric Designer and Woven Garment Designer — two window crafts, the women's market generalist role, and two woven-textile specialisms.
What is the difference between window design and window display?
Design conceives and specifies the window scheme; display builds it — construction, rigging, mannequin dressing, lighting and finishing, usually overnight. Each has its own description in this directory.
What is the difference between a woven fabric designer and a woven garment designer?
The fabric designer creates the cloth itself with mills — structure, yarn and colour. The garment designer creates clothing, designing garments specifically to suit woven fabrics rather than knits, and specifies fabrics created by others.