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Accessories Designer
Accessories have become an important part of the fashion world. Jewellery, hand bags, shoes, sandals, belts, hair bands, hair clips, sunglasses, frames, watches etc. are included in accessories. Hosiery accessories include bows, ties, ribbons and other fabric ornaments. A simple dress with matching accessories adds charm to one’s personality. Accessory designing itself is a big industry that includes designing of all the above accessories. Accessory designers skillfully blend the traditional designs and the modern market demand. Accessory designers create various jewellery pieces and ornaments to be worn with trendy fashion apparels. Design specialists work hard to create place for Indian accessories in the global market.
Designing give new shape and look to a simple piece of leather, fabric and metal. Accessories designers also work like fashion designers. Before creating a new design they go for detailed research. They get aware of the market trend. They come to know the colors, designs and material in fashion. Accordingly they use those colors, material and add their creativity to give the accessories a new look. Before putting their designs into reality they draw and illustrate the design on a paper. Then they make sample pieces and send them to the market to get approval of the dealers. The work involves everything from casting and moulding to identifying and experimenting on the different types of metals and leather.
As this field has vivid range of accessories one can specialize in one area only. One can specialize in jewellery and ornaments designing. Then there is designing of hosiery accessories, designing of hair accessories, designing of watches, sunglasses and frames also need designing. The leather designing has vast range of things. Today entering into accessory line is the probably the most favourable moves to become the part of the lucrative growing fashion industry. There are all sorts of fashion accessories thus one can touch the heights in designing area. New age designers are getting more experimental. They have the creative intelligence, clear vision and the will to do what they want.
To excel in the area of designing one need to have thorough knowledge of specific material he is going to experiment with. For example if a person wants to try his hand on leather designing, he should have knowledge of types of leather and qualities of leather available in the market. Chemicals, colors, polish and other materials that can be used in designing the leather articles. There are institutes provide us with courses on accessory designing. There are long and short term courses. Accessory designing is the part of fashion designing. Therefore all the fashion designing institutes give training on accessory designing also. Leather designing is part of the accessory design course at NIFT.
University of Calcutta conducts a Master in Visual Arts course with specialization in leather design.
Business of accessory designing depends on one’s capacity to invest. One can do this business with a little investment. To start with it requires a table’s space only. Ornaments of beads, stones, wires and fabric can be designed at home. Home maker can easily go in designing of accessories. As the production cost of these articles is very low so the profits are huge. To get more profits you can sell your design yourself by avoiding the middle man who absorbs your profits. To start with you can sell in your close circle. Then slowly you can move out by selling them to retail outlets. With little investment you can do this business online also.
If you are in the capacity to invest large amount of money in accessory designing business then sky is the limit. You can also enter into global market by establishing your brand and compete with international accessories designing brands like Herms, Vuitton Malletier, Aldo mango, Tommy Hilfiger, Rolex wrist watch, Da Milano and Kenneth Cole’s accessories.
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