Fashion Design

What is Fashion designing ?

Fashion designing as a career is the art of innovating, inventing, or adding excellence in clothing by utilizing certain accessories. The role of a fashion designer entails drawing fashion designs, cutting out and stitching the clothing item, visiting fashion shows, practicing tailoring abilities to correct the fit, drawing designs to produce garments, choosing materials and any specific additions for the outfit, and so on. Hence, powerful business knowledge plays an essential part in the flourishing career of a fashion designer.

Scope of Fashion designing and Fashion designing Branches

Fashion designing is among the remarkably productive and exciting career options and unfolds a world of possibilities for anyone with enthusiasm for this profession. Today anyone can pick to specialize in any one of the sub-areas of fashion, such as Accessory designing, Jewelers designing, Apparel designing. The opportunities are endless! The fashion designer job is very demanding, which entails meeting everyday deadlines, driving dusty roads to arrive at the local markets for getting material, etc. Skilled people in this field experience glamour, prosperity & high salary.

Fashion designing Courses

Candidates can seek Fashion Design as a career at the undergraduate or postgraduate level. Aside from this, candidates can even seek short-term Diploma or Certificate programs in the domain of Fashion Design. Some of the successful Fashion Design programs offered at various colleges in India include:

Level	Courses
UG Level	Bachelor of Design (BDes) Bachelor of Arts (BA) Diploma Bachelor of Fashion Technology (BFTech) Bachelor of Science (BSc) Certificate
PG Level	Master of Design (MDes) Master of Fashion Management (MFM) Master of Science (MSc) Master of Fashion Technology (MFTech) Master of Arts (MA) PG Diploma

Eligibility of Fashion designing Courses

Eligibility for all the courses provided by the Information Technology Courses are as follows:

Courses	Eligibility
Undergraduate	Candidates must have passed the 10+2 exam from a recognized board with the any stream with a minimum aggregate marks criteria provided by the examining authority of government, universities/institutes, etc.
Postgraduate	Candidates must have passed a B.Sc. Fashion Designing/ B. Des. Fashion Design for 3- 4 years  from a recognized board with a minimum aggregate marks criteria provided by the examining authority of government, universities/institutes, etc.

Fashion designing Entrance Exams

Most institutes shortlist applicants for admission in their institutes for Fashion Design course based on a design aptitude test followed by portfolio and personal interview round. Some famous fashion design entrance exams candidates should consider giving are:

·         NIFT

·         CEED

·         SEED

·         NID DAT

·         FDDI AIST

·         AIFD WAT

·         UCEED

·         AIEED

·         Pearl Academy Entrance Exam