Designers who are paid by the assignment are under pressure to please existing clients and to find new ones to maintain a steady income.

The fashion boys (and a few girls) on the message boards over at superfuture started posting the total prices of what they're currently wearing on a thread called "How Much Was Your Outfit Today?"

As much as I enjoy high fashion I can not deny the prevalence of snobbery within the business and from the consumer.

With any given project, costume designers must get a feel for the mood, time period and setting in which the action occurs.

Paris Fashion Week: The Critics Thesaurus ... Paris Fashion Week as always was a major destination for the designer crowd recently.

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FASHION DESIGNERS create clothing and accessory designs and may plan the production and marketing of their creations. ... Some high-fashion Designers are self-employed and design for individual clients.

The out come of all of this will be interesting to see. If fashion continues to casual down there will be no need for fashion designers or supermodels, as you can just go to Wal-mart and get what you need. ...

You're not ever going to get a studio to reveal how much they charged for any single placement, or even a range: they'll hide behind the term "trade secret."