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Hi Muskan,There is wide scope of Fashion Design in India as well as abroad. Students have innumerable choices in front of them after completing their professional studies in Fashion Design. The fashion designers have varied options including designing, research, cloth production, textile designing, etc. They may join fashion houses/manufacturing/export units for a paid job or launch their own label in market. Your career will start as a trainee and after getting the in-depth knowledge will lead you into the higher stages of fashion designing like:
Fashion Designer
Fashion Illustrator
Fashion Stylist
Retail Manager
Pattern Maker
While the academic requirements are not very high, you need considerable aptitude and talent to be labelled designer material. You must be highly creative to combine colours, shades and textures and express your ideas through sketches. Your race for admission into a reputed fashion school will begin straight after school. Subjects like drawing, painting, home Science and computer graphics will develop your creativity. After successful completion of the course, you can remain self-employed. Alternatively, several export houses, garment store chains, textile mills, leather companies, boutiques, fashion show organizers, jewellery houses and media houses recruit professionals interested in a career in fashion designing. The Starting monthly package can be around Rs.10, 000 to Rs.15, 000. With experience, you will acquire maturity in designing skills and a few years down the line your salary would be in the range of Rs.30, 000 to Rs.40, 000 per month. Of course, if you become a reputed designer you could demand the world.