Hi. I'm not a Poser user, but I've seen some work and I wonder if is it useful for clothes/fashion design (my sister is studying that). Thanks

adding to a figure yes- make cloths no to make you'd need a modeler program like rhino or one of the many many others available, some for free.

There are a number of stock type pieces that can be assempled into new pieces. This might be nice for a student to get an approximate look of what they're trying to achieve. Poser also allows you to quickly change a texture on a piece of clothing. The figures pose fairly easily and some nice images can be done. You're best bet would be to show your sister Poser in action. Ask around (or just start a new thread here) to find a Poser user in your area and ask if they'd do a demo for your sister and yourself. She might really like it, or may decide that the time it takes to get something out of it isn't worth it. You really need to see it in action to make a final decision.

I fyour sister is seriously interested in using poser for fashion design, suggest to her to find someone who knows how to model. It probably wouldnt be in her best interest to stop everything and take the next, however long, to learn how to model, and poser. she can stay 2d (with the knowledge of the 3d realm in poser from you) and someone whos capable of working her 2d designs sketches into 3d might be a better idea. maybe she can create a new series or line of clothing for some of these figures here and make them available.

I am a fashion designer by trade, Poser would be good as a template to draw fashion illustration with, she could pose the model and then import the render into Illustrator or Photoshop (or whatever) to use it to draw her fashions over if you will. But as far as creating the actual clothes themselves, she will learn pattern making through specialized CAD software ( Gerber, Lectra come to mind). Learning to create 3d clothing would be of very little use to her in my opinion, it is relatively complicated and outside of the texturing bears no semblance to the craft of patternmaking.

Thanks to all of you. I'll tell her all what you told me. She was very interested about the issue, so I repeat, thank you