Fashion Designing Course – Career in Art, Fashion, Design, and Technology

Introduction to Fashion Designing:

India is traditionally better known for its textile exports and manufacturing capabilities than the verve and sophistication of its designers. India has emerged in recent years as a contender on the global fashion scene. Designers names such as Sabyasachi, Rohit Bal, Abu Jani, Sandeep Khosla and Manish Malhotra have transformed the industry, which today hosts four fashion weeks a year between Delhi and Mumbai. The India Fashion Week launched in 2000, created a “ready to wear” market which then served as the trigger for aspiring indian designers to expand their market to international shores, and set the scene for the arrival of fashion design as a serious career choice in fashion designing. The institutes for this course are established for training students in design, management and technology, paving the way for Indian designers to take leadership in the emerging global scenario.
”Indian fashion varies from one village to another village, from one city to another city. India’s fashion is rich in tradition, vibrant in colours and prepossessing. Thus the institutes and colleges think that it could be very interesting to form students who have this strong Indian fashion culture and knowledge in the fashion area. According to the institutes it could open new ways for the international fashion.

Objectives of the course:

· Fashion Designing course aims to train students comprehensively with concepts, practical skills and techniques required by professional Fashion Merchandisers.

· It provides expertise to industry, which is rather instrumental in the context of our national aim of strengthening it's potential of generating foreign exchange earnings and generating employment.
· To award diplomas, certificates and other distinctions at various levels to the candidates trained and to prescribe standards of proficiency before such awards.
· To institute an award, fellowship, scholarship, prizes and medals in accordance of rules and regulations and by laws.
· To under-take selected applied research studies and applications there of in areas of textile, fashion and garment industries; particularly concerning the integration of regionally produced material the requirement of mass production, improved product design and International marketing.
· To meet the needs of Indian textile, fashion and garment industry and commerce in respect of up-to-date information on Textile, fashion and Garment's Technology through research & publication of literature with particular reference to the programme of the textile, fashion and garment industry in the country and to provide technical assistance to artisans, craftsmen, manufacturers, and exporters of textile, fashion garment products.

Eligibility:
Mainly the Eligibility for the Fashion Designing course is 10+2(HSC)

Career Options:
· Designers
· Design managers
· Fashion stylists
· Costume designers etc
· Accessories makers
· Buyers
· Merchandisers
· Co-ordinators
· Product Developers etc

Fees for the Course:
The fees of the course ranges from Rs.60000 to Rs.3,50,000/-

Institutes/ Colleges/ Academy:
Here are a few institutions/colleges where the hotel management courses are conducted:
1. JD Institute of Fashion Technology
2. National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT)
3. Sasmira Fashion Institute
4. SNDT's Premlila Vithaldas Polytechnic and many more

Course Contents:
· Industrial design (includes product design, ceramic and glass design etc)
· Textile apparel and accessory design (includes textile design, apparel design and merchandising, lifestyle accessory design)Communication design (includes graphic design, animation film design, film and video communication)