What is fashion designing?

While researching more about fashion designing, i stumbled upon a blog where Pooja talks about fashion designing. I've learn many insights while reading this short post.

http://chekurstyle.blogspot.sg/2011/06/what-exactly-is-fashion-designing.html


Fashion designing:
Fashion designing is an art of creating apparels and related accessories to set a lifestyle statement.

What fashion design means?
Modern fashion design comprises of 2 basic categories viz. Haute-Couture, and Pret-a-porter. The former is a custom-made form of fashion designing catering to exclusive customers and haute couture is showcased through fashion shows for all Creativity knows no bounds in fashion designing. If one has the correct knowledge of textile, patterns, color coding, texture etc. there is no limit to the permutations one can think of in terms of designs.

Summary definition of Haute-Couture: The designing and making of high-quality fashionable clothes by leading fashion houses, esp. to order.

Summary definition of Pret-a-porter: Ready-to-wear clothing 


The importance for fashion designing

"It is also important that one plans the entire attire, draws the blueprint and visualizes the final outcome of the design. The success of the design will of course depend on the finish, thus its crucial to have a superb and glamorous."

After reading this blog post i note down the things i had to do and questions that crossed my mind

1. What kind of apparel am I  going to create? Haute- couture or a Pret-a-porter?
2. The things i've got to do, to draw the fashion figure before i design the apparel. Then, it would be proportionate.