What is the scope for fashion designing in India?

Hi there, For people who are creative and have passion towards the trade, Fashion designing is one of the extremely lucrative and glamorous career option. May sub fields, subtypes can be chosen such as Apparel designing, Jewelers designing, Accessory designing. The options are limitless! A demanding and deadline oriented job involves meeting daily deadlines, traveling dusty roads to reach the local markets for procuring material, dealing with workers and managing a team effectively. Talented and creative people in this domain enjoy glamour, success & high compensation. Career Opportunities in Fashion Design Garment and textile export houses Television and Film industry Boutiques Textile and fabric manufacturing units Branded fashion showrooms Independent/ self employed designers Teaching and training Retail Chains Designing of clothing and fashion wear are the primary area of work. Job varies from designing concept to final production of outfits. Skills combined with a personal vision is what marks out the best designers. These professionals normally find themselves performing the following actions: Visualizing /creating an idea and producing a design by hand or through computer-aided design Understanding designing from a technical outlook Coordinating closely with sales, buying and production teams to ensure the item suits the market and price Planning and developing wardrobe Supervising production of garments Adapting prevailing designs for bulk production Be up to date on emerging fashion trends along with general trends concerned with color, fabrics and shapes Visual merchandising Negotiating with customers and suppliers Source, select and buy fabrics The first step towards this career is to attain the skills and knowledge of nuances of the trade. You must choose a right institution which has expertise and reputation in curating the fashion programs. NIFT, NIFD and LPU are some of the good ones for starting the career on the right note. DVD.

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<p>* The scope depends on your interest in the field of fashion design like Fabrics, apparel, texture, materials, combinations, accessories, etc. * After selecting one of the fields fashion design, then it depends on your work and portfolios, scores and internships grades for getting an opportunity anywhere. * Fashion Design Industry serves great to people who are creative and passionate in their respective fields. * Scope is real high in Fashion Industry as now people are more aware and concerned about their wardrobes and apparel nowadays. There are several choices for pursuing your career in the fashion design field as B. Des Fashion Design, B.Sc. Fashion, B.A. , or Diploma courses as well but amongst all B. Des Fashion Design 4-year programme is considerably more professional and industrial specific in comparison. It carries more weightage in several areas. You can make your specialisation with Master's to choose an industry in a fashion design career, like accessories, apparel, or textile designing, etc. You can also have a look at IILM University, Gurugram. You can appear for IILM University Gurugram's Design Aptitude Test Design Aptitude Test with the Interview Process for applying. They offer B. Des degree programs with various specializations like Fashion, Interior, Interaction, and Product Design of 4 years with an added advantage of Liberal Education in their curriculum with good and advanced pedagogy in teaching. The School of Design &amp; Fashion at IILM University, Gurugram offers a choice of career by combining a major and minor degree within design fields or other mainstream courses like a combination of major in Fashion and minor in Graphic Design or major in Interaction and minor in Business. You can visit their website to apply for the programme or to enquire more.</p>

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The various career prospects in this field are Merchandiser in Export/ Buying houses (The link between buyer-seller). Visual Merchandiser (Creation &amp; execution of Shop-window display). Apparel production manager. Fashion retail store Manager. Fashion designers (B. Design has brighter probabilities to pursue as freelance or selfemployed designers). Moving beyond the brick and mortar classroom, Lovely Professional University expose you to experience from around the world using online platforms, alumni networks etc. LPU curriculum is benchmarked with some of the best universities of the world, but continues to retain its uniqueness and innovativeness. It is up-to-date and linked closely with employer demands making the graduates best fits. Along with basic and technical inputs in a programme, curriculum provides extra inputs for improving your language, analytical and reasoning, and soft skills. Live and entrepreneurial assignments and projects integrated in the curriculum provide you opportunities to explore an entrepreneur in you. LPU curriculum provides the flexibility to pick elective subjects of your choice and design your own pathway of learning. A wide variety of interdisciplinary electives allow you to widen your horizon and explore your hidden potential. Based on this programme a student has the career opportunities like Visual Merchandiser, Apparel procurement manager, Fashion retail store manager, Fashion designer in Export/ buying/ Retail houses, Apparel and design production manager, Fashion educators (teaching) or entrepreneur of fashion boutique, owner of production house of fashion apparel, Fashion stylist and many more options are there. The workshops are conducted for hands on experience on graphic design, knitting technology, digital marketing, design portfolio, fashion design and grooming, fabric draping etc. LPU organizes various styling workshops as well as Mega fashion shows which are very helpful to the students.

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