Career scope in fashion designing in India


The word is Fashion is not unknown to anyone. The Fashion designing is one of the fast growing industry and giving more job opportunities in India from the past ten years. Let's try to understand some details about the course, scope, career and its future prospects.

The media has made the concept of fashion very famous. We are always astonished to see the different fashionable clothes from famous fashion houses. Some fashion houses are famous in India as well as in foreign countries. Have you ever thought about the people standing behind these modern fashionable clothes? The degree in fashion designing and hard work is the secret behind this fabulous career.

Fashion designing in India


India is always famous for its traditional clothing style, garments and textile. Diversity in clothing according to each state has made the career of fashion designing famous in India. In India the course of fashion designing or fashion technology carries a vast scope. There are so many top colleges offering this course. If you love new fashionable clothing and making new designs cloths for others with your creation, then fashion designing is the correct career for you. Fashion designing is not only limited for fashion house or fashion boutique but also you can get a chance to participate in various television shows and programs. The fashion channels, fashion shows and programs can give you the clear idea about the fabulous future of this course in India. What you need is proper training, creative mind and a lot of hard work.

Eligibility for the course of fashion designing


You can do the fashion designing course after 12th standard also. You need to pass 12 th standard with minimum 50% to join the course. The higher level course can be done only after the completion of graduation. The post graduation course of fashion designing can be done only after obtaining graduation degree from recognized university. The admission of the course completely depends upon the entrance tests along with group discussion and final personal interview.

What skills you need to have?


Creativity: The first and the most important thing you need to have is creativity. The world of fashion always demands something new and if you wish to enter the field of fashion designing, you need to have a creative mind. New ideas about the fashion and perfect knowledge about latest style is necessary. Only creative mind can achieve success in the field of fashion designing.

Original designs: Along with creative mind and imagination, it is also necessary to maintain your originality. Copying the designs from others cannot be survived for a longer period. You need to take efforts to create your own designs every time. You need to update yourself with latest fashion craze, and you need to work accordingly.

Update your knowledge: If you are interested in fashion designing then you need to have a very good knowledge about clothes also. Which cloth is suitable for a particular fashion should be checked properly. Some designs are complicated and you should have that knowledge to understand and work upon difficult designs. One more important thing you need to have is having knowledge about colors and fabric.

Fabric and color selection: The perfect color combination is very important in the matter of fashion. The color combination should be attractive enough to bring the design popular. You should also have knowledge about the fabric and material. The color, the fabric and the quality of the cloth is the main investment of a fashion designer. A successful fashion designer knows the skill of draping, weaving and designing too.

Tailoring skill: Skill of tailoring is also an additional advantage for a perfect fashion designer. Sketching a beautiful design and creating it on special occasion will give you work satisfaction and lots of fame. You should always have knowledge about the market demand. You should have the information about the latest fashion as well as the preference of the customer. All these skills can make you a very successful fashion designer.

Scope for Fashion designing


Fashion designing is one of the very few courses which has high demand and very bring future in India as well as in international market. In India garments and textile industries have captured a very good market. Within these few years the field of fashion designing has developed extremely. Various fashion houses are introducing new designs and capturing markets. New innovative designs are introduced in market. So if you are stylish, creative and have lot many ideas about the fashion then this is the best career option for you. This course will not only offer you a job satisfaction and creativity but also the job as a fashion designer offers you huge success and high social status. You can get a highly pain job opportunity or you can open your own fashion house.

Career prospects


After completing the course you can work as a fashion designer in fields like planning and concept management. You can enter in the field of fashion marketing or designer wear production. The fields like fashion accessories also need the eligible fashion designers. Apart from these fields you can also avail jobs as fashion consultant or technical designer. The job of personal stylist or personal costume designer can be a highly paid job. The production pattern maker and fashion coordinator are also new fields after completing fashion designing. If you have through knowledge about the colors and fabrics then you can take a job as a fabric buyer or fabric quality control management. The fashion houses hire apparel production managers on high salary. You can also work as an illustrator or sales representatives in big showrooms.


Comments

Guest Author: karthikala02 Jul 2016

Excellent article! It was helpful to us to learn more and useful to teach others.

Author: K Mohan04 Jul 2016 Member Level: Platinum   Points : 3

Rightly summarized by the author that Fashion designing is one of the most promising career and there is no dearth for creativity even. India is having so much population and most of the young and youth are falling prey to the Western fashion and their outfits. Now it is the expressed duty of every fashion designer to fulfill the aspirations and asking demand of every citizen and in that process this career is going to be ever promising because one can always create new designs and acceptance of the same is in abundance. Moreover having own selling ability of finished designed clothes will fetch much money and that is lucrative business being carried out by every designer.

Author: Juana16 Aug 2017 Member Level: Diamond   Points : 8

If you have the requisite training, talent and the resources you can start you own line of clothing. It could be couture or ready-to-wear. There is a big scope.
As a trained fashion designer you could design the followings:
1. Wedding and trousseau clothing
2. Kids clothes
3. Just gowns
4. Party/evening wear
5. Designer cholis
6. Indian ethnic
7. Formal or corporate wear
Fashion is something that near goes out of fashion. It keeps evolving, but it's there to stay. In the materialistic world that we live in today, people will always look for something fashionable to wear and you could provide it to them.
The advantage with this profession is that you can begin small scale, operating from your home or start a medium range business. The opportunities are galore. Your initial investment would not be much. You would also be in a position to give employment to others – become an entrepreneur.

Author: Mjaay16 Aug 2017 Member Level: Silver   Points : 3

Designing has two aspects. One is fashion designing and the other is product designing.
Apart from NIFT there is an institute in Ahmedabad named NID (National Institute of Design). It offers various courses ranging from furniture design, infrastructure design,animation,painting etc.
People who are interested in NIFT might also be interested in NID. It has state of art faculty and campus. Many eminent interior designers are alumina of this institution.



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