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Here are some qualities required to become a Fashion Designer:

• Strong Business Sense: A great fashion designer has excellent business skills. You understand budgets, marketing, and sales concepts that are vital to getting designs produced and sold.
• Good Communication: A number of people are involved in the creation of a garment, and as designer, you must be able to effectively communicate to everyone involved what he or she expects.
• Sense of Competition: You continually strive to do better than your peers to come up with quality innovative designs quickly.
• Highly Creative: You have a great sense of style and are constantly coming up with new ideas for fashions.
• Strong Drawing Skills: Excellent drawing skills mean you can easily sketch your ideas onto paper to start the production process.
• Good Eye for Materials: You have an eye for the materials of a garment, as well as the elements that make it unique, such as color and fabric.
• Strong Sewing Skills: You can construct the garments you design. You understand what materials work best in the designs you are developing.
• Team Player: Great fashion designers work well as part of a team. Designing a garment for production involves the work of many, from pattern making to sewing to shipping.