Fashion Designer Interview Questions and Answers

Ques 1. What skills according to you are necessary for a successful fashion designer?

This question would be judged on points like marketing intelligence, artistic vision, focus on the art, demand in the market, supply in the market, and so on.

Ques 2. What is the qualification required for a fashion designer career?

Such type of queries is judged on the basis of the degree the candidate has acquired. This will include qualifications like fine arts with fashion and design. One can also describe the work experience, show work portfolio and so on.

Ques 3. Are you literate regarding computers and technology for designing? Or what kind of software you use while designing. If no, then also be frank?

In such type of questions, the candidates are tested on their ability to use technology for designing. It also portrays how truthful a candidate is about himself and his or her abilities.

Be frank and clear regarding the technology you use because if you lie on using the technology, you may be caught in the following questions. So be true while answering every query.

Ques 4. How do you stay up to date regarding fashion?

The candidate must answer this question by keeping points like magazines, browsing the internet, attending fashion shows and so on. Studying the history of fashion greatly helps to know the ins and outs of fashion.

Ques 5. What do you think about work ethics and what kind of ethics you believe in following while working with fashion?

This again is a question that will probably relate closely to what motivates you to be a better designer and from your normal life, what kind of ethics you follow and put up in your work.

Ques 6. Say something about your background?

This query seems easy but the interviewers tend to ask the queries which confuse the candidate in the successive step.

Asking about a person’s background is fine but when an interviewer asks about the background of a particular designer, then a candidate might get confused and it can give a red signal during the selection.

Ques 7. What do you consider the important facets of the fashion industry?

Here the candidate must answer relating the characteristics of the fashion industry.