Fashion Industry Test: What Would You Be in the Fashion Industry?

Written by Krystal

Tuesday, 29 April 2008 00:00

To take this test, just answer Yes or No to the question and then follow the directions! Once you find out what letter you are (A-J), go to the bottom and see the job descriptions! Have fun!

1. On a day off, you spend it relaxing at home

a. YES, move to 3
b. NO, move to 2

2. You throw tea parties

a. YES, move to 4
b. NO, move to 5

3. You know the latest fashionable spots

a. YES, move to 5
b. NO, move to 6

4. You never miss events like Valentine’s Day, etc

a. YES, move to 7
b. NO, move to 8

5. People often consult you

a. YES, move to 8
b. NO, move to 9

6. You pretty much believe in the blood type personality types

a. YES, move to 9
b. NO, move to 10

7. You often see movies at small theatres

a. YES, move to 12
b. NO, move to 11

8. You keep a diary

a. YES, move to 13
b. NO, move to 12

9. You like Disney more than Sanrio

a. YES, move to 13
b. NO, move to 14

10. You take care of your skin from the sun even in the winter

a. YES, move to 15
b. NO, move to 20

11. You have things that seem like they are from a dream

a. YES, move to 16
b. NO, move to 17

12. You have a special favorite musician

a. YES, move to 17
b. NO, move to 18

13. You go shopping once a week

a. YES, move to 18
b. NO, move to 19

14. You like texting rather than speaking on the phone

a. YES, move to 20
b. NO, move to 24

15. There’s always a book in your bag

a. YES, move to 14
b. NO, move to 20

16. When in a collective you put on a proactive appearance

a. YES, you are A
b. NO, you are B

17. You are the type that can’t abandon things if you had to

a. YES, move to 22
b. NO, move to 21

18. You generally like talk and variety shows

a. YES, move to 22
b. NO, move to 23

19. You have savings

a. YES, move to 24
b. NO, move to 23

20. You like amusement parks

a. YES, move to 19
b. NO, move to 24

21. In performance you are the strong type

a. YES, you are C
b. NO, you are D

22. You like going to art galleries/museums

a. YES, move to 25
b. NO, move to 26

23. You can’t help but be attracted to character goods

a. YES, move to 26
b. NO, move to 27

24. You like old things

a. YES, move to 27
b. NO, move to 23

25. You prefer to make presents by hand

a. YES, you are E
b. NO, you are F

26. You have at least 200 numbers on your cell phone

a. YES, move to 28
b. NO, move to 29

27. You use Google often

a. YES, move to 26
b. NO, move to 29

28. You listen to all genres of music

a. YES, you are G
b. NO, you are H

29. You’re always on time for appointments

a. YES, move to 30
b. NO, move to 28

30. 3 hours of concentration just goes by in the blink of an eye

a. YES, you are I
b. NO, you are J

Did you have fun answering the questions? Read below to see your job description!

A ♥ Shop Staff

An energetic and bright person!
The brand’s number one fan!?

This job is to be at the front counter and sell customers merchandise. Since the job requires direct conversation with the customer to serve them, you’re probably an energetic and bright person who likes to talk to people. You feel glad to just to do things like make coordination suggestions at the customer’s delight to help them shop. In addition, you love being surrounded by the clothes you love. However, besides customer service there are other things to take care of like client management, merchandise management, organization, proceeds management, as well as things that are not seen by the customers like inspection of newly arrived merchandise which is extremely important. But since you are able to check the new merchandise so quickly, customers see that you are a fashion leader.

B ♦ Press

An extensive job that advertises brands

The basis of this job is to do things like follow the current season’s theme for your brand’s periodical and come up with coordination ideas for publication advertisements and occasionally accompany photo shoots. You also do things like respond to requests from magazine publications and engage in lending models’ stylists. Press, on the other hand, is a job that does various other things according to the company. To exhibit the new items, you work by the designer to distribute model sketches (including things like all the item sketches, prices, materials, sizes, etc) and do things like create labels, manage the website, and handle mail orders. There are lots of things that can be asked of you, but your own coordinated outfits will look like you stepped out of a page of a magazine or a stage, and you’ll be even gladder with your success!

C ♣ Model

To appeal with the charm of your poses and facial expressions

When you say “model,” there are various types of models like runway models, TV/commercial/magazine/etc models. As well, with magazine models, there are two kinds of models, them being professional models who are with the company and the magazine readers who do amateur modeling. A model’s job is to work with people like directors, editors, and photographers to create poses and facial expressions to their direction. It’s important to have a tall figure and style, but your opportunities would probably be more plentiful with things like how beautiful you make yourself and show yourself to be, creating more variations of poses and facial expressions, and having enthusiasm when researching. It’s been said that it’s difficult when you first start working as a model, but if you can become popular and be chosen for magazine covers, there’s a big chance that you can turn towards being something like a celebrity or an actor.

D ♠ Stylist

Making use of your coordination sense

This job entails using clothes and accessories and such to do things like create fitting medium concepts and settings and coordinating to make the personalities/items look good. You prepare the costumes, etc by leasing or buying from the makers or special rental shops. As well, you specially order things that haven’t been made before or make things yourself to complete your image. Besides that you also do other important things like manage the costumes and return anything that was borrowed. It can be a rather temporal, corporeal, and hard job, but you’re happy to be able to create images successfully and work with a creative staff and gain wisdom. You definitely have fashion sense, but it’s important to take care of the models, clients, and the staff around you first.

E ♥ Designer

A person who shows their big imagination

This job is for creating clothes from the imagination that fits a theme. One part of the job is to transmit your ideas by drawing designs, but it’s also important to handle human resources and numbers as they are related. You can say that every creation is necessary part of the job. The epitome of the designer is probably to feel that small impetus in the mind come to life as it’s affected by your surroundings and the people around you. However, it’s still a business and so a gap is created from creating the image into a reality. The designer is a person who can slow down the constantly turning gears in the mind. They are also a person who feels they want to show others their image.

F ♦ Buyer

Searching for the best things around the world

If you were to describe this job in one sentence it would be “To go around and buy things from wholesale stores or shops.” You even deal with items overseas. You probably have great bargaining and communication skills so you can get the best price possible. Also, it’s important to make sure items will be sold so that you won’t end up with inventory that will go bad.
The way to do this job is to either be an employee of a specialty shop or be self employed and freely sell items at wholesale price and such. Whatever branch of buying you go into, you’ll maybe find your niche! That’s the sort of glamour this job has.

G ♣ Fashion Editor

Communicating their feelings by overlooking books and magazines

Starting from plans for publications and periodicals, to the writers and photographers, to getting page designers, to handling the printing, this job does everything until the end. It’s not only getting all the materials, it’s also reading and absorbing the readers’ thoughts and opinions while keeping up with the times, which is important because it all ties together with the planning. The fashion editor must exhibit brands’ new items and get information from the press to catch the current season’s fashion trends. And once a layout has been decided on, you lease items for every band and have photo shoots. However they introduce whatever items, there is no exaggeration when it comes to the ability and work of the fashion editor.

H ♠ Illustrator

Brilliant expression of personality in a picture

This job is to draw things like illustrations and cuts for things such as books, magazines, and advertisements. You produce illustrations according to your client’s request. While drawing to make the page perfect, it’s also part of the role to write explanations on the sketches, so there are times when you just can’t draw a certain motif or you can’t draw a commission. However, you’re probably just happy to be able to see your drawings publishied in magazines and such. It seems like there are many who want to express themselves through drawing and want to become an illustrator. It may appear like a job where you work at your own pace, but there are times when things are due the day of the commission request, so it’s important that you are disciplined because there are no do-overs.

I ♥ Pattern Maker

The artisan who makes designs into wearable clothes

The general pattern maker’s job is to take the designer’s creation from the page to a pattern for real clothing, but depending on the brand you may also be the designer as well. You decide how to make the form of the clothes from the form of the design and on all the lines, and you’re simply happy to create the clothes that the designers come up with, but there are difficult aspects as well. Since the job of the pattern maker is a craft, you probably need to like clothes and be meticulous. Just a little mistake in the measurement can mess up the entire piece, so it’s hard if you’re not the precise type. Also, it’s probably good to say that you should not only be thorough but be able to work diligently. It may be good to be more expressive and rich.

J ♦ Merchandiser

Looking out for the latest items with a sharp point of view and making plan proposals

You can say that this is an easy job to understand, which is to decide what and how much to stock. Things like which of the current season’s things to sell and following the year’s selling trends ensuring the items will are very important. You check things like the goods that sell well and the proceeds and based on those you make proposals for new items as well as decided on prices. You’re happy to just sell items with your selling strategies as you like. However, it’s not always the case that you’ll be able to sell everything, so to make sure you don’t overstock it’s important that you control the balance of the inventory. It’s important to ascertain good items and items that will sell, so a merchandiser is probably someone who can see everything objectively and have good judgment.

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Translated, Transcribed, and Reformatted by Krystal
Original Text from Gothic♥Lolita & Punk Interview Book

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