Fashion Designing – On the Right Course

The desire to look best, better than the rest and availability of money has made a simple profession of tailoring into an art called Fashion Designing. People have realized that clothes are not simply about putting two things together and stitching them. It’s a creative art, wherein lot of in depth knowledge about colours, cuts and matching is required. With the film and television industry titillating the mind of young generation, the interest in dressing up has really caught on. This has prompted many to choose fashion designing as career. Tapping this potential are many institutes which provide fashion designing courses across the length and breadth of our country.

 

Fashion Designing is the creative art to apply aesthetics to clothes or accessories. It has really become popular in our country as around the world. Surprisingly it’s the Tier 2 and 3 cities where the craze to adopt fashion designing is more as compared to the big metros. Of course it’s the big cities which lead as far as quality fashion designing education institutes are concerned. Students from small cities prefer to come and study in big cities as the exposure to the trade and education quality is better.

With garment and textile exports touching a new high, fashion designing is a, hot career to choose. A career in fashion designing can be made after passing 10+2 as many institutes offer fashion designing courses in the form of degrees and diplomas. Some of the leading fashion design education institutes in our country are:-

• NIFT (National Institute of fashion and technology), New Delhi
• Pearl Academy of Fashion, New Delhi
• SOFT ( School of fashion Technology) , Pune
• SID (Symbiosis Institute of Design), Pune
• NID (National Institute of Design), Ahmadabad
• JD Institute of Fashion Technology, Mumbai
• International Institute of Fashion Design, Chandigarh
• Northern India Institute of Fashion Technology, Mohali
• Apeejay Institute of Design, New Delhi.

Many of these institutes like the NIFT, has branches in many parts of the country. The students can enroll in the branch nearest to their home towns. Some branches are better known for their education quality but the course is at par at all the centers across the country. Some of the institutes like NIFT and NID conduct a national level entrance test for admissions, while the other institutes intake students on the basis of marks scored in 10+2.

The course of Fashion Designing is not just about learning how to design clothes and accessories. It comprises various fields like designing, textile and garment production, merchandising etc. One can opt for various degree and diploma courses like :

• 3 and 4 year Bachelor of Design degree
• 4 year Bachelor in Fashion Technology
• 2 year Masters in Design, M.F.M. and M.F.M. Tech.
• 3 year B. Sc in fashion / accessory designing
• 2 year M.A. in fashion design, marketing and retail management
• 1 year diplomas in Apparel production, fashion retail, Merchandising, CAD textile design and Creative fashion and Technology

The prospects in this field are immense. With the growth of the export in textile and apparels from India and the retail market booming with the economical liberalization, the demand for professionally qualified workforce in this field is rocketing sky high. Garment Export houses, retail chains, online retailers are some of the potential employers. Creativeness and a relative professional degree take you a long way in this field. 

Besides, the best part of making fashion as your career is that it gives you a freedom to work independently and start up your own boutique or a fashion house. No wonder the fashion designing courses are so much in demand these days.

Author Bio

"Being a freelance Marketing and Human Resource consultant for the last 17 years, Manoj Malhotra has had the opportunity to gain exposure and thorough knowledge about people and their behavioral patterns and an insight into varied fields."  He regularly contributes her ideas about different educational information like IT courses, about interior designing courses, medical courses and many more.

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