India Fashion Course

Fashion is generally anything that is a currently popular style or practice, especially in clothing, foot wear or accessories or thinking for that matter.

What we wear and how and when we wear it, provides others with a shorthand to subtly read the surface of a social situation. Fashion today has become an important means of communicating ones image and plays a key role in supporting ones professional, personal and social lifestyles.

We are fashionable people. The demand is so huge that the supply of institutes is immense. Every nook and corner of India has a fashion design college. To feature in the league of famous and successful designers, you not only require talent but the best training as well, from the best institutes in the country.

This page shall tell you all about the fashion design courses in India and the colleges that offer them.

Career Prospects

Fashion design students are employed in export houses, design studios, retail and fashion houses. They can work as Fashion Designer, Fashion Coordinator, Design Manager, Fashion Merchandiser, Production Manager, Buyer, Quality Control Manager, Consultant, Stylist, Exhibition and Visual Display Expert, Fashion and Life Style Journalist, Costume Designer and Illustrator. They can also work independently.

Associated Sectors with fashion career:

• Fashion Show Organizer
• Fashion Publication
• Fashion Merchandising
• Fashion Styling
• Haute Couture
• Contour Design
• T V Production
• Film Production
• Costume Design
• Apparel Marketing and Merchandising
• Leather Design and Technology
• Knitwear Design and Technology
• Garment/ Textile/ Handloom Export Houses
• Retail Garment Business (Men/ Women/ Children/Sportswear/ Casual Wear/ Formal Wear/ Indian Wear/ Western Wear)
• Wholesale Garment Business (Men/ Women/ Children/Sportswear/ Casual Wear/ Formal Wear/ Indian Wear/ Western Wear)
• Garment/ Textile/ Handloom Manufacturing
• Government/ Semi Government- Handlooms/ Textile manufacturing

Name of the Course	Name of the Institution
M.Sc in Fashion Technology (2 Years) Postgraduate Degree in Garment Production & Export Management (2 Years) Degree in Fashion Technology (4 Years) Diploma in Fashion Design (Full Time/ Part Time) (2 Years) Certificate in Fashion Design (Full Time/ Part Time (1 Year)	ARCH Academy of Design 9 Govind Marg, Malviya Institutional Area, Malviya Nagar, Jaipur- 302017 www.archedu.org
Apparel Design & Merchandising (2 and half Years)	National Institute of Design Paldi, Ahmedabad 380 007 Gujarat www.nid.edu
M.F.M. (Master of Fashion Management) (2 Years) M.FTech. (Master of Fashion Technology) (2 Years) B.Des. (Fashion Design)(4 Years) B.Des. (Textile Design)(4 Years) B.Des. (Fashion Communication) (4 Years) B.FTech. (Apparel Production) (4 Years)	National Institute of Fashion Technology GH - 0 Circle, Gandhinagar - 382 007, Gujarat Campus La Block, Near 16 N0. Water Tank, Sector III, Salt Lake City, Kolkata - 700 098 Old Mahabalipuram Road Taramani Chennai - 600 113 National Institute of Fashion Technology Opp Hitech City, Madhapur, Hyderabad- 500081 Sector 4, Kharghar Navi Mumbai 410210 http://www.nift.ac.in
PG Diploma in Fashion Design (2 Years) PG Diploma in Textile Design (2 Years) PG Diploma in Fashion Merchandising (2Years) PG Diploma in Fashion Retail (2 Years) B A (Hons.) Fashion Design (4 Years) BA (Hons.) Textile Design (4 Years) BA (Hons.) Fashion Business Management (4 Years) Certificate Program in Fashion Clothing for Women’s Wear (1 Year) Fashion & Media Make-Up (1 Year)	Pearl Academy of Fashion A - 3, Naraina Industrial Area - Phase II, New Delhi - 110028 SP 38A, RIICO Industrial Area Kukas, Jaipur 82,Sterling Road, Nungambakkam, Chennai - 600034, Tamil Nadu www.pearlacademy.com
PG Diploma in Fashion Retail Management (2 Years) PG Diploma in Apparel Production & Merchandising Management (2 Years) PG Diploma in Fashion Design & Clothing Technology (2 Years) PG Diploma in Computer Aided Textile Design (2 Years) PG Diploma in Fashion Design & Clothing Technology (1 Year) B Design - Fashion Design (4 Years) B Design - Fashion Communication (4 Years) B Design - Textile Design (4 Years)	School of Fashion Technology Soft Campus, Near Cummins Engineering College, Karve Nagar Pune – 411052 www.softpune.com

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