Fashion designing in India

Fashion designing is one of the most demanding and exciting career options that one can ever have. In India, fashion has persisted since ages and is flourishing since long. 

There are various fashion courses in India at various levels, such as diploma, certificate course, undergraduate, and postgraduate. The course deals with aspects like garment manufacturing technology, apparel marketing, accessory designing, textile design, development, fashion design and presentation, and many more fields. One can also do specialization in one of the many fields that are provided in fashion designing.

Scope of fashion designing in India:-

Fashion designing involves creation of new designs for garments and accessories to meet the needs of the people with the change of trend. This comes under the part of market research. The scope of fashion design does not limit to designing clothes and garments, it can cover wider areas of design in the field of jewellery, accessories, footwear, luggage, etc. Since the fashion industry is an ever growing field of economy and its growth is the proof of the ever expanding opportunities in fashion industry.

Jobs in Fashion Designing:

The career in fashion designing starts as a trainee designer after the completion of respective courses and later enters into higher stages of fashion industry. The basic instinct of artistic nature, creative mind with excellent talent in making sketches and a good sense of choosing colours suitable for the need, etc., are the necessary attributes for an aspiring fashion designer. To explain the role of designers in this career, some job profiles of several posts of work in fashion design are given below:

Fashion Designers:

They are the key players in the fashion industry as they are responsible for creating new products with new designs and styles that suits the trend prevailing in the market. Salaries and earning are huge provided you are creative and understand the market.

Fashion Illustrator:

This person is the running hand of the ideas and mental creations of the designer. This person makes the primary sketches of what the designer explain and put it into shape.

Fashion Stylist:

This part of job is totally related to maintaining the look and beauty of the show organized at the fashion shows or any promotional programs. They take care of things like make up, hair style, dress codes, etc, to give the best look of the show.

Fashion Designing Courses in India:

Fashion designing courses are easily available across the world and in India also. There are many institutes across the country providing short term as well as long term courses in fashion designing. The duration of the course may vary between 1 to 3 years depending on the choice of course structure. Some of popular fashion designing courses in India are:

Fashion Illustrator:

This person is the running hand of the ideas and mental creations of the designer. This person makes the primary sketches of what the designer explain and put it into shape.

Fashion Stylist:

This part of job is totally related to maintaining the look and beauty of the show organized at the fashion shows or any promotional programs. They take care of things like make up, hair style, dress codes, etc, to give the best look of the show.

Fashion Designing Courses in India:

Fashion designing courses are easily available across the world and in India also. There are many institutes across the country providing short term as well as long term courses in fashion designing. The duration of the course may vary between 1 to 3 years depending on the choice of course structure. Some of popular fashion designing courses in India are:

 Fashion Designing and Apparel Designing

Jewellerydesigning & Management

Interior Designing

B.Des- Bachelor of Design

B.Ftech- Bachelor of Fashion Technology

Diploma in Computer aided Fashioning Designing

Colleges
Some of the top colleges offering different types of design courses are: National Institute of Fashion Technology (Delhi), Vogue Institute of Fashion Technology (Bangalore), Pearl Academy of Fashion (Delhi), School of Fashion Technology (Pune), Symbiosis Institute of Design (Pune), and more. 

Details of the top fashion designing institutes in India --

Top Ten Fashion Designing Colleges in India
Rank	Name of the College	Address	Phone No	College Website
1	National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT)	NIFT Campus, Hauz Khas, Opp. Gulmohar Park, Delhi	011-26542100	http://nift.ac.in
2	Pearl Academy	A-21/13, Naraina Industrial Area, Phase II, Delhi	011-49807100/101	http://pearlacademy.com /delhi.php
3	National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT)	Plot no 15, Sector 4 , Kharghar, Mumbai	022-27745549/ 27747000/ 27747100	http://nift.ac.in/mumbai/
4	National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT)	NIFT Campus, C.A. Site #21, Sector-1, 27th Main , HSR Layout, Bangalore	080-22552550-56	http://nift.ac.in/bengaluru
5	National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT)	(Ministry of Textiles, Government of India) Opp-Hitech City, Madhapur, Hyderabad-500081	040- 23110841 / 42 / 43	http://www.nift.ac.in/
6	Symbiosis Institute of Design (SID)	Survey No. 231, SVC Campus, New Airport Road, Viman Nagar, Pune, Maharashtra 411014	020-2663 4511	http://sid.edu.in/
7	National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT)	NIFT Campus, Rajiv Gandhi Salai, Taramani, Chennai	044-22542755/ 22542756	http://nift.ac.in/chennai/
8	National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT)	NIFT Campus, Plot-3B, Block-LA, Near 16 No. Water Tank, Sector III, Salt Lake City, Kolkata - 700 098	033-23358872	http://www.nift.ac.in/

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