footwear designer
Footwear designers perform fashion trends analysis, forecasting and market research, create footwear concepts and build collection lines by operating mood or concept boards, colour palettes, materials, drawings and sketches etc. They conduct the sampling process, make footwear prototypes and samples for presentations aimed to promoting the footwear concepts and collections. They identify the range of materials and components, define the design specifications by collaborating with the technical team and review the footwear samples, prototypes, and collections.
Also called: men's footwear designer, footwear designer and developer, footwear stylist, women's footwear designer, footwear CAD technical designer, shoe stylist, footwear technologist, sports footwear designer
- 25
- essential skills
- 9
- optional skills
- 8
- related roles
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Where you can go from here
8 rolesOccupations sharing the most essential skills with this one. The number is a count, not an opinion.
- footwear product developerWhat changes?25 skills in common
- footwear product development managerWhat changes?20 skills in common
- footwear CAD patternmaker11 skills in common
- leather goods designerWhat changes?11 skills in common
- leather goods product developer11 skills in common
- leather goods product development manager11 skills in common
- footwear production manager10 skills in common
- footwear quality technician10 skills in common
Essential skills
25- analyse types of footwear
- apply fashion trends to footwear and leather goods
- communicate commercial and technical issues in foreign languages
- create mood boards
- create patterns for footwear
- create technical sketches for footwear
- develop footwear and leather goods marketing plans
- develop footwear collection
- ergonomics in footwear and leather goods design
- footwear and leather goods marketing planning
- footwear components
- footwear creation process
- footwear manufacturing technology
- footwear materials
- footwear quality
- implement footwear marketing plan
- innovate in footwear and leather goods industry
- last types
- make technical drawings of fashion pieces
- perform market research in footwear
- perform pattern grading
- reduce environmental impact of footwear manufacturing
- use communication techniques
- use IT tools
- work in textile manufacturing teams
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