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selkies Professional Wick Checker Since: Jan, 2021 Relationship Status: Star-crossed
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#1: Jul 2nd 2023 at 12:30:32 PM

Since we dealt with Fashion Model earlier in TRS, it only makes sense that Fashion Designer should be looked into for the same issues of un-tropeworthiness and ZCEs. As expected, it has chairs-y examples just like any other general occupation trope without a specific focus and I don't think there's anything salvageable about it.

Here's the wick check and the stats:

  • 49/53 or 92% are "X is/wants to be/has the role of a fashion designer/fashion designers exist" examples and other chairs-y examples.
  • 3/53 or 6% are examples with varied useful context but don't have a pattern between them.
  • 1/53 or 2% is under the other unsorted examples.

The first solution that comes to mind is to cut and redirect to Eccentric Fashion Designer. Thoughts?

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    "X is/wants to be/has the role of a fashion designer/fashion designers exist"/potholes/other zces — chairs (49/53) 
  1. Alternate Music Video: Swing Out Sister's "Breakout" has a black-and-white version and a color version of the same music video of her and her bandmates as fashion designers.
  2. Eccentric Artist: Italian Fashion Designer Elsa Schiaparelli at the height of her career during the 1930s and 40s. Being a Fashion Designer who is also affiliated with Surrealists, her designs included atypical and "shocking" motifs like the shoe hats, the Lobster Dress, the Skeleton Dress, and the Tears Dress. — Fashion designer exists
  3. Four-Girl Ensemble: In Jem, the band Jem And The Holograms consists of the teenager Kimber, the tomboyish and blunt Aja, the Dude Magnet Jem, and the shy Fashion Designer Shana. They later get a Sixth Ranger in Raya. Jem also counts as "dependable" but mostly when she is her alter ego Jerrica, and Kimber is the most prone to love interests.
  4. New Romantic: Under Dressed to Plunder: One of the flamboyant dress codes for the movement. Fashion Designer Viviene Westwood coincidentally released her "Pirate Collection", which the movement quickly jumped on the looks.
  5. Spaghetti and Gondolas: Kim Possible bucks the trend by actually having an episode set partly in Milan. Of course, the villains in that episode were criminally-minded fashion designers. (Hey, at least they did some research!)
  6. The Gift: French Fashion Designer and taste maker Yves Saint Laurent first showed his talent for fashion at 4-years-old, when he critiqued his aunt's style. He started sketching shortly after that, and by the time he was a teenager he was attending design school in Paris. — Excerpt of a longer example
  7. Workaholic: My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Rarity, being a Fashion Designer whose clientele are often celebrities and the elite, and managing three boutiques in later seasons, has her moments as well.
  8. Anime.Aikatsu Stars: By virtue of the Dress Make System, idols double as this, being able to customize their dresses with Glitter. However, the Glitter gimmick was dropped after Season 1. — Idols self-customizing their dresses doesn't strike me as noteworthy
  9. Castle.Tropes E To L: Matilda King is a designer who runs her own fashion house, and Kate worked for her when she was a model. After solving a case where Matilda's assistant was murdered, Matilda asks Kate to model a Fairytale Wedding Dress she designed. It looks so good on Kate that Matilda gives it to her (though it ends up as Doomed New Clothes). — Nothing noteworthy
  10. Characters.Arifureta From Commonplace To Worlds Strongest Hajimes Party: (Yue), She finds that she has great talent as a tailor and fashioned not only her own clothes, but Hajime's and eventually Shea's.
  11. Characters.Boyfriends: (Nerd GF), Apparently also designs and sews cosplay clothing and provides both the Boyfriends' and Girlfriends' demon/angel themed Halloween costumes.
  12. Characters.Cocoppa Dolls: (Thia), Implied. Her skirt and blazer descriptions state that she made them by herself.
  13. Characters.Deemo II: Abby, who designs and sells clothes at a gazebo in the Café area. She also does custom orders, and delivering a custom dress to Dolores after she reopens nets you a hidden chart.
  14. Characters.Drag Race Thailand Season 1: (Bunny), Bunny is a skilled designer and illustrator, and even designed Down Under's Scarlet Adams' Sea Sickening runway and Jan's promo look for All Stars 6.
  15. Characters.Fruits Basket Another: (Hibika), She's going to run a second clothing store of her parents' business. — Already listed as Eccentric Fashion Designer anyway
  16. Characters.Harvest Moon Natsume: (Melanie's entry in the Bachelorettes' folder), She works as both an interior and a fashion designer.
  17. Characters.Hunie Pop: (Lola), Her new predominant occupation as of HuniePop 2, though she still works for her old airline occasionally as it's a good chance to meet new clients and customers all over the world.
  18. Characters.King Of Prism: (Leo), Leo likes to design and make clothes and has designed all of the solo outfits of the Septentrion members.
  19. Characters.Lapis Re Lights: (Ratura), She designs clothes but her works more often than not find their home in the pages of her manga than on the runway.
  20. Characters.Love Me For Who I Am: (Tenmaru), His dream for the future is to run a shop that designs and sells cute clothes for boys.
  21. Characters.Magical Girl Policy: (Stacy), A Fashion Design major, she dreams of creating her own label.
  22. Characters.Mermaze Mermaidz: (Shellnelle), No context given — blank entry
  23. Characters.Model Ronpa: (Kaise's entry in The Cool Team's folder), It's his talent. He's just as good at wearing the clothes as he is as making and designing them, to boot!
  24. Characters.One Day At A Time 2017: (Alex), [[spoiler:In season 4, he asks his mother for $500 but initially doesn't tell her it's so he can take a class on fashion design which he's passionate about. He's not very good at it and instead tries to buy clothes to cover up his failure, but after Penelope finds out, she encourages him to keep trying.]]
  25. Characters.Pri Para Idol Staff: (Hojo), Responsible for some of the popular coord designs and the one used during the Cyalume Change.
  26. Characters.Sister Sister: (Lisa), It's her job, she works in the fashion business.
  27. Characters.Sweet Elite: (Neha), A highly talented designer, Neha's assistance is often sought after.
  28. ComicBook.Hellfire Gala: It's been confirmed that in-universe, Jumbo Carnation designed all of the suits and dresses for the Krakoan mutants attending the gala.
  29. Creator.Kelli Berglund: She launched a fashion collection called MUSE in 2015.
  30. DarthWiki.Disaster Duel: (Ming Zhu Mao), That is literally their talent, though they lack the typical Large Ham personality that goes along with it.
  31. Fanfic.Temporal Anomaly: Hina is shown to be making the dresses for the Intoners for their wedding to Sougo.
  32. Film.Designing Woman: Mirella’s job, and she is quite The Fashionista.
  33. Film.Kingsajz: Ala, who meets up with Olo at a fashion show. She designed the collection.
  34. Film.Zoolander: Mugatu designs many of the clothes modeled, and he is credited with creating the piano necktie.
  35. Laconic.House Of Gucci: A Gold Digger marries the head of a famous and wealthy family of fashion designers. Murder ensues.
  36. Literature.Aru Shah And The End Of Time: Four of the six seasons that Aru and Mini meet act as this for the world and varying Night Bazaar customers though they call themselves ateliers.
  37. Mates, Dates series: Lucy is an aspiring fashion designer who likes to make clothes for both herself and her friends.
  38. Manga.Boku To Boku: Under Wholesome Crossdresser: Both Asou and Junichirou mainly crossdress. Jun began crossdressing when his Fashion Designer mom started making him dress up in drag.
  39. Manga.Miriya And Marie: Marie is asked to be a designer for a fashion show, and lets Miriya and Leon to test their creation spells for it.
  40. Recap.Furry Fight Chronicles A 1 P 3 C 30 Facades: Ida is the best seamstress of Tendonchi and she's the one who made Muko's maid outfit in Chapter 3.
  41. Recap.Odd Squad S 1 E 8 Crime At Shapely Manor: Miss Triangle is one, being one of the most famous in the world, whose trademark is using triangles in her designs.
  42. Recap.Psych S 02 E 15 Black And Tan A Crime Of Fashion: Under The Fashionista: Just about everyone introduced in the episode, to an extent. If they’re not a fashion model, they’re a Fashion Designer.
  43. Series.Alma Gemea: Madalena runs an atelier where she makes and sells very expensive dresses.
  44. Series.Thats So Raven: Fashion Designer / The Fashionista: Raven, of course. + Improper example writing
  45. Series.Velvet: A career as a successful fashion designer is one of the things Ana wants most. The other being Alberto.
  46. Tomboy and Girly Girl.Film: Lifeway's 2019 short film The Wild Life has Kate the tomboyish non-best 90% photography Wild Life girl and Chelsea the girly Fashion Designer Selfie Queen (a.k.a. Scariest Person whom Kate stated).
  47. Toys.Licca Chan: Licca's mother Orie, who was originally a Housewife when she was first introduced, owns a boutique named Jewel.
  48. UsefulNotes.Christian Dior: Christian Dior (January 21, 1905 - October 24, 1957) was a French Fashion Designer born in Granville, France and was one of the most important designers of the 20th Century.
  49. VideoGame.Fantasy Life: Being a tailor is one of the Player Character's job options.

    Has some useful context (3/53) 
  1. Characters.Rozen Maiden: (Mitsu), In the manga, she becomes a doll clothing designer, selling her products on her personal website called "Angels Cage", despite the increased workload and the minor success. When she's held captive, she's forced to make doll dresses for when Alice is created. — A worker is forced to do some work by their abductor
  2. Fanfic.A Rabbit Among Wolves: Jaune's guise for infiltrating the Vytal Fashion Show. Achieved with the help of Lisa and the White Fang recruits looking up latest trends on the internet. — Undercover fashion designer?
  3. Series.Head Of The Class: Eric shows a talent in fashion design, which he ascribes to watching his mother do piecework for major New York designers for extra money. But it turns out that all his designs are subconsciously plagiarized from those same major designers. — A scamming/lying fashion designer?

    Uncertain/Misuse/Other (1/53) 
  1. Costume Tropes: A character who designs clothes for a living.

Edited by Berrenta on Jul 6th 2023 at 5:51:39 AM

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#2: Jul 2nd 2023 at 12:43:58 PM

Opened. I can get behind the suggestion.

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#3: Jul 2nd 2023 at 12:49:05 PM

I rather redirect to Fashion and Modeling Tropes so that we can avoid attracting misuse to Eccentric Fashion Designer. That's what was done to Fashion Model after it was taken to TRS as well.

Edited by MacronNotes on Jul 2nd 2023 at 3:50:09 PM

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amathieu13 Since: Aug, 2013
#4: Jul 2nd 2023 at 1:02:19 PM

[up]i'm ok with redirecting to the index

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#8: Jul 2nd 2023 at 1:23:18 PM

Redirect to the index and move examples to Eccentric Fashion Designer that apply. I wonder if there were any ironic examples of "fashion designer who themselves wears poor clothes" to yard.

Edited by Amonimus on Jul 2nd 2023 at 11:23:28 AM

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#9: Jul 2nd 2023 at 1:34:22 PM

Redirect.

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#15: Jul 5th 2023 at 2:37:38 AM

Calling in favor of redirecting to Fashion and Modeling Tropes.

Edit: The redirect was made. Now to clean up the wicks.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Jul 5th 2023 at 4:39:40 AM

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selkies Professional Wick Checker Since: Jan, 2021 Relationship Status: Star-crossed
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#16: Jul 5th 2023 at 7:08:34 AM

356 wicks remaining.

Linked some wicks to Eccentric Fashion Designer.

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#18: Jul 6th 2023 at 12:48:21 AM

cleared out the rest. only one left is from the wick check.

Berrenta How sweet it is from Texas Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
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#19: Jul 6th 2023 at 3:52:52 AM

Good job. I archived the wick check and will proceed with sending the sandbox to the cutlist.

Time to close.

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