Fashion design on a broad level is the art of applying design to clothes and accessories. Various types of clothes and materials are designed to produce an aesthetically pleasing and functionally useful clothe wears. Fashion designers make use of different aspects, designs and features of clothes and other raw materials to enhance the value of such materials and turn it into a more nuanced and valuable fashion product more conducive to fashion styles and consumption.

A piece of silk, cotton, linen, jute, precious stone or any other raw material just remains as another material without much value. It is only after it is being designed by a designer that such pieces of raw materials can be turned into valuables that are worth millions both in terms of its utility as well as aesthetic looks.