in fashion design it is usual to produce a series of rough sketches or working drawings in order to arrive at a design or collection proposal, This allows the designer to develop variations of an idea, before making a final decision about a design, whilst at the same time forming part of a critical process of elimination and refinement.
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Fashion, art or design?
I had some conversations with some fashion designers last few days, it was about one question which is; what is fashion? is it art? or design? for many fashion designers this question is of no value, for others it’s, for me i consider myself one of the second group, what is the need after all? well, at least a fashion designer must know himself and his job starting with classifying his job and duty.
Urban fashion trend
Urban fashion trend have been around for a while, it’s getting popular more and more and expected to evolve for longer time next years, urban fashion is strongly about bright colors and shining accessories of the hip hop style to a more understated and profession urban fashion trend of today.
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African fashion designers
Fashion isn’t just a way to protect humans from the environment, but also to express people’s personality through fashion designs. The origins of fashion in Africa are lost by time; however archaeological indicate; ancient clothing in Africa was made from treated animal hides, furs, and feathers. Now African fashion designers make fashion clothes from cotton, camel and sheep wool. Other sources of fiber include the raffia palm, jute, flax, and silk. All these fibers can be dyed using vegetable and mineral dyes.
Every nation has a fashion style that has originated in its culture, fashion designers develop their styles by resourcing from their culture, African fashion designers uses a wide selection of crafts, elements and colors for the African styles are extremely colorful and are representative of a number of cultures within the African community. This is what makes them the most sought after even in the global fashion world.
Fashion Visual Merchandising
Merchandising jobs are crucial and fashion visual merchandising is the behind the scenes staff which combine the creative ideas with commercial business objectives, 
in order to achieve company/store goals, visual merchandising is closely linked to marketing; therefore, its main function is the same: selling the product. However, the fashion visual merchandising focus is on promoting the fashion without resorting to embellishment and deceptive advertising, selling using only the fashion product’s presence and appearance, and most interestingly, some very specific fashion placement techniques. A visual merchandising professional is an expert in the organization and placement of the product (whether in a shop or a showroom), so as to make it attractive to buyers.