Other things an Assistant Designer might do

In my experience there are always things that you will find in your job that you will not like to do. Like opening your email in the morning and replying to millions of email from people yin production, factory, an design. But that is part of the job, and hopefully when time pass you will eventually have your own assistant who will do that for you. Other duties that you might have as an assistant are:

-Setting up the showroom for presentation to buys.I remember working with this big company that had many licenses and small line and I used to work for one of them. My job as an Assistant Designer was to set up all the garments that were going to be presented to buyers, steam them and make sure we had all the garments from the line. That was a lot of fun to do.

-Assistant are also ask to organized fabric or swatch libraries,organize garment racks, and overall design room. I did that a lot and still do it if ask for it, so don't complain if you have to do it.

-Sometime you might be ask to go to the garment district and get some fabrics, trims or even buy inspirational garments and return them later.