Career Summary

My Barbie dolls always had better clothes than I did…and they still do. No wonder millions of little girls and yes boys too love their dolls and action figures. The daydream fantasy play has built an industry worth more than $2.3 billion in sales. Doll designers create miniature fashions to be produced on a large scale.

Just like the Paris catwalk dreaming designers, they study fashion trends, sketch clothing designs, pick out fabrics and colors and help make designer lines from start to finish. The difference is that a six-inch model not a five foot six inch model will wear the clothing.

Doll designers create fashions that are often part of entire seasonal line, such as Christmas and life at the beach. Every holiday presents a chance to showcase new fashions. Halloween brings out the doll costumes and New Years Eve presents the glitter and tiaras. Than there is always furnishing the doll townhouse, the city penthouse and the beach retreat. All of these high fashions need a fashion designer with a creative and innovative mind to bring out the glamour of dolls.

Not all dolls are out for glitz though. Action figures need military apparel, athletes need running clothing and superheroes need a disguise. That is where a fashion designer steps up to the plate to create an outfit that is fashionable, eye catching and inspires imagination.

Dolls may only bring up a picture of a plastic figure, but an entire world of dolls is much more than a plaything. Barbie has an entire collection of collective dolls for serious collectors. American Girls inspire dolls that look like the dolls owner which will be a heirloom that will be cherished for generations. Action figures will never go out of style and a whole new generation of play is born every day. These dolls and figures need clothes and they need designers with fresh ideas that can create them.