Glamour, fashion and design, if this is what drives you then fashion designing is the field you are destined to be in.
Fashion designing is one of the extremely lucrative and glamorous career options and stuffed with opportunities. Although like every other field, this has lots of competition, and you have to be in limelight to be noticed. However, this career provides you with never-ending adventure and experiments. You are not going to get bored here.
Although Indian parents and society still have not accepted fashion designing as a good career choice, it happens to be with other creative career fields. But mindsets are changing and we can see a rise in the number of people going for unconventional, creative and artistic career choices.
Now since you are reading this article, you yourself have thought of trying this field out and have a passion for fashion designing, so let me make this process a little simpler for you and introduce you to the world of fashion designing.
What is fashion designing?
Fashion designing is the art of applying design, aesthetics, clothing construction and natural beauty to clothing and its accessories.
The work of a fashion designer includes creating clothing, like dresses, suits, pants and skirts, and accessories, shoes and handbags, for consumers. They can specialise in clothing, accessory, jewellery design or more than one of these areas.
Courses and colleges
The list below covers different courses one may pursue in order to be in the fashion industry as a designer.
Diploma courses
- Diploma in fashion design
- Computer-aided Diploma in Fashion Design
- Advanced Diploma Fashion Design and Management
- PG Diploma in fashion design
Bachelor courses
- Bachelor of fashion design
- B.Sc in fashion design
- B.A. in fashion design
- B.Sc in fashion and apparel designing
Masters courses
- M. Design in fashion and textile
- M.sc. in fashion designing
- M.A. in fashion design
Top colleges to pursue fashion designing in India
- National Institute of Fashion Technology
- Pearl Academy, Delhi
- Symbiosis Institute of Design, Pune
- Amity School of Fashion Technology, Noida
- JD Institute of Fashion Technology, Bangalore
Career opportunities
Career options of fashion designing don’t only involve high-end fashion shows and couture. Leave that thinking for your parents, when you start searching for opportunities in the fashion design industry, the sky’s the limit.
Listed below are some major recruiters and job providers in the fashion industry-
- Garment and textile export houses
- Branded fashion showrooms
- Television and film industry
- Boutiques
- Retail chains
- Independent, self-employed fashion designers
- Teaching in an institute that offers courses in fashion designing
Skills required to be a fashion designer
The world around us is changing rapidly and new technologies are growing fast, making their way from every other aspect of our lives to the next.
And the fashion industry is not unaffected by these technological advancements. Fashion designing is no longer just about art, creativity or design, it is merged with technology and is leveraging its power to create better ingenious designs for a new world of fashion. We all have seen what the magic of Technology and science could do through the mystical, awestruck creations of Iris van herpen. A new revolution in the fashion industry.
1. Knowing every aspect of design
You must know how to play with colours, shapes and styles and create a piece that sticks. Fashion designing is a place where your ability to understand concepts of design plays an important role in your growth.
2. Be creative and imaginative
It is unstated obvious that creativity and imagination are what will keep you alive, growing and fresh in the cut-throat industry of fashion.
3. Communication and networking
While fashion may be art, it is also a business. You have to have good communication skills and must know how to build relationships because keep in mind that you can’t do everything on your own.
Fashion designing is a job that will please your soul as well as your bank account. But it doesn’t mean you will get paid a loaded amount at your first step.
Like any other industry, fashion design has its fair share of hard work and competition and doesn’t guarantee to rocket you to the top of the industry. You have to work long hours or if working as an independent designer, you might not get paid consistently.
But in the end, these challenges and hardships don’t matter if you have the passion and courage to follow them.
– Manisha Yadav
