Fashion Designer Interview Questions and Answers

Fashion designers design clothing and fashion accessories. Depending on personal preferences, fashion designers can follow a unique vision or work along established lines.

Refer to the following sample of fashion designer job interview questions and answers for getting ready for your upcoming interview.

Job Interview Questions and Answers
for a Fashion Designer

Question: What skills are important for a successful career in fashion design?
Answer: Designers have to either combine marketing intelligence and artistic vision themselves, or be able to delegate business duties to hired specialists, agents, etc. while they focus on the art.

Question: What are your qualifications as a fashion designer?
Answer: This question can be answered in several ways. You can describe your education: fine arts with fashion/design focus. You can describe your work experience: fashion houses, employers, employees, and of course your actual work (the portfolio). Or you can describe your personal characteristics.

Question: Are you computer literate in relation to fashion design? Would you be able to use software to produce designs?
Answer: Be frank. Some established designers use no or little computer software in their work. Others rely heavily on technology (CAD). Simply explain how you work. If you are an efficient designer, your use of computer software will not be relevant.

Question: In what general area of design do you work or wish to work?
Answer: The areas are generally divided into three groups: street fashion (mass-manufactured high fashion); ready-to-wear (small collections); and haute couture, where unique cat-walk garments are created mostly without practical considerations. Don’t try to impress employees with what you are not. If you are an expert in high street fashion – you will be appreciated and find plenty of work.

Question: How do you stay up to date with fashion?
Answer: Designers stay current by reading magazines, browsing the internet, attending fashion shows, and studying technical manuals. They study the history of fashion to better understand its development and current tendencies.