A professional who designs or redesigns custom and commercial fur garments. Responsibilities include:

• Analyzes fashion trends and predictions and confers with client or sales and management executives regarding design ideas.
• Sketches design on paper to make or restyle garment, utilizing knowledge of various kinds of fur, techniques for handling fur, and fashion trends.
• Obtains customer measurements, using tape measure.
• Draws pattern on paper according to customer measurements and cuts out pattern.
• Lays pattern on canvas and cuts out material, using scissors.
• Sews together sections of canvas to form mockup of garment.
• Fits mockup on customer and makes necessary alterations.
• Directs workers engaged in cutting and sewing garment.
• Examines completed garments for defects.
• May estimate cost of restyling or of making new garment.