Design Job Descriptions — Letter Y
Design and merchandising job descriptions beginning with Y
One design job description begins with the letter Y: the Young Men's Designer, who designs clothing for the younger male market. It is a short letter with a distinctive desk — the most trend-responsive corner of menswear, where denim, jersey, graphics and street culture move faster and at lower prices than the adult ranges beside it. The full description is linked below.
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Y — Design Roles
The Young Men's Desk
Young men's design serves teenagers and men in their late teens and twenties, and its working methods follow that customer: research drawn from music, sport and street culture, short design cycles and frequent drops, and ranges built around denim fits and washes, graphic jersey and fleece, and outerwear borrowed from sport and street. The description below covers the role's duties, its price discipline, and why designing for this market is a specialism in its own right rather than menswear scaled down.
How to Use This Letter
Read the Young Men's Designer description for the full treatment of the role, and use the alphabet bar to compare it with the neighbouring W letter — the Womenswear Designer and the two woven design specialisms — or with the Menswear Designer under M, whose traditional categories and slower cycles make the clearest contrast with the young men's desk. The links below lead to the employment resources around this section.
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Common Questions
Which design job descriptions begin with Y?
One: the Young Men's Designer, who designs casual, denim and graphic-led clothing for the teenage and young adult male market.
How is the young men's designer different from a menswear designer?
The young men's desk works faster, at lower prices, and from street, music and sport culture, with closer fits for younger customers — while the menswear designer's market is the adult customer, with slower cycles and traditional categories such as tailoring at its centre.
Where are the other youth-market roles?
Youth-market buying and merchandising sit inside the general buyer and merchandiser descriptions in this directory and in the buying category of the wider job description directory linked below.