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Creative careers: fashion designer

I can design and make a festival headdress

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Creative careers: fashion designer

I can design and make a festival headdress

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Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. A fashion designer is a person who creates original clothing and accessory designs.
  2. Some fashion designers, called milliners, specialise in designing and making hats, or headdresses.
  3. Headdresses can vary widely in concept, materials and influences.

Keywords

  • Fashion designer - a person who creates original clothing and accessory designs

  • Milliner - a designer or maker who specialises in creating hats and other headwear

  • Headdresses - a decorative covering or arrangement worn on the head

Common misconception

A fashion collection is an assortment of clothes and accessories with no common theme or coordinating colours.

Remind children that a fashion collection consists of clothes and accessories that share colours, fabrics, or themes designed to showcase the particular style of a fashion designer.


To help you plan your year 6 art and design lesson on: Creative careers: fashion designer, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs...

For this lesson, children may wish to bring in small items from home to personalise their headdress.
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Equipment

headbands or strips of card, glue, pipe cleaners, beads, pom poms, tactile materials

Licence

This content is © Oak National Academy Limited (2025), licensed on Open Government Licence version 3.0 except where otherwise stated. See Oak's terms & conditions (Collection 2).

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Prior knowledge starter quiz

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6 Questions

Q1.
What does the word promote mean when talking about a festival?
To cancel the festival and refund tickets
Correct answer: To tell people about it and get them interested
To make it secret and for select people only
To only invite your friends and family
Q2.
Which of these is a content creator mostly like to post to promote a festival?
A shopping list of items for the festival
A written postcard about a family holiday
Measurements for the stage design
Correct answer: A video or poster about the festival
Q3.
Social media is ...
a place where people buy clothes and fashion accessories only
Correct answer: an online platform that lets people communicate, share information and connect
a tool for cooking healthy and wholesome food
a game you play outside to connect with others
Q4.
Why is it important to use social media safely and respectfully?
Because social media is an online platform
Correct answer: So you don’t hurt others and protect your own privacy
Because social media is only for playing games
So you can post as many pictures as possible without rules
Q5.
Why do some social media platforms have age restrictions?
Correct answer: To make sure users are old enough to use them safely
To stop people from sharing pictures with each other
So only teachers can use social media for their classes
Because social media is only for children
Q6.
How might content creators help promote a festival?
Correct answer: By sharing videos or images of last year’s activities
By hiding all information about the event
By only talking to their friends in person
By avoiding sharing anything digitally online

Assessment exit quiz

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5 Questions

Q1.
What does a fashion designer do?
Build fashionable houses
Correct answer: Creates clothes and accessories like hats and headdresses
Cook meals for fashion models only
Drive vehicles to fashion events only
Q2.
What is a milliner?
Correct answer: Someone who designs and makes hats and headdresses
A person who cooks food at festivals
A dancer at a festival
A person who sells tickets for festivals
Q3.
Which of these is an example of a headdress?
A black and white jacket
A neutral coloured scarf
Correct answer: A colourful hat worn at a festival
A pair of shoes with patterns
Q4.
What is the main reason festival headdresses are designed carefully?
To make people feel sleepy
To make the festival longer
To prepare for bad weather conditions
Correct answer: To reflect the culture and spirit of the festival
Q5.
Order the steps a fashion designer or milliner might take to make a festival headdress:
1 - Sketch design ideas
2 - Collect materials and tools
3 - Finalise the design and decorate the headdress
4 - Test the headdress to make sure it fits and is comfortable
5 - Make any final adjustments to the fit