Fashion Design
Fashion Technology Courses - Career Options For Fashion Designers
Submitted by PremsankarC on Fri, 09/03/2010 - 15:27.The student’s who have passed the +2 exam with 50% mark can apply for the BF tech entrance examination for the fashion designing and fashion technology studies.
In India places like Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, and Kannur have the national institutes of Fashion Designing. The admission for the course BF tech is based on the entrance examination.
- Indian institute of fashion technology
- Vogue institute of fashion technology
- JD institute of fashion technology
- Satyam institute of fashion technology
- Lanka institute of fashion technology
- Cepz institute of fashion technology
- National academy of fashion technology
- National institute of fashion design
Fashion design is the art of the application of design and asthetics to clothing and accessories. Fashion design is influenced by cultural and social attitudes, and has varied over time and place. Fashion designers work in a number of ways in designing clothing and accessories. Some work alone or as part of a team. They attempt to satisfy consumer desire for aesthetically designed clothing; and, because of the time required to bring a garment onto the market, must at times anticipate changing consumer tastes. Some designers in fact have a reputation which enables them to set fashion trends.
Fashion designers attempt to design clothes which are functional as well as aesthetically pleasing. They must consider who is likely to wear a garment and the situations in which it will be worn. They have a wide range and combinations of materials to work with and a wide range of colors, patterns and styles to choose from. Though most clothing worn for everyday wear fall within a narrow range of conventional styles, unusual garments are usually sought for special occasions, such as evening wearor party dresses.
Career as Costume Designer and Costume Designing Courses
Submitted by PremsankarC on Sun, 05/23/2010 - 01:36.In today’s world of hype and drama where visual media seems to be having a strong impact on the youth of today, one can be pretty sure of carving a snug niche in the field of performing arts, film and fashion. Anyone with excellent creative skills and a basic aesthetic sense, who has the ability to put their ideas onto paper effectively through their sketches and communicative abilities stand a good chance of becoming successful costume designers.
Why Costume Design so Important ?
Role of Costume Designers
Skill Required for a Costume Designer
- The art of costume designing requires an aspirant to
- possess strong designing skills
- pattern making and draping skills
- besides extensive knowledge about the history of costumes trends textures
- different kinds of materials and also a thorough understanding of the evolution of fashion and trends.
Best colleges for Costume Design and Fashion
- National Institute of Fashion Technology
- National Institute of Design
- School of Fashion Technology
Career Opportunities for Costume Designer
Their work involves designing costumes which exponentially enhance the character and intensity of the role played by each artist. Costume designers can also work as designers for garment stores or work under eminent designers to aid in adding to their clotheslines. With experience, expertise, networking and ample funds, one can even launch a clothesline of one’s own.
The film and fashion industry is ever-expanding and so are the opportunities that are related to the field. Hence, all the young aspiring designers who want to make it big in the creative world of design, cinema, or drama, do not hesitate to pursue a career in Costume design! After all, in the words of William Shakespeare “All the world’s a stage”, isn’t it? So set the stage ablaze by unleashing your creativity!
Career Options - Fashion Accessory Designing
Submitted by PremsankarC on Fri, 02/12/2010 - 16:19.
Fashion Accessory Designing includes making and exhibition of products ranging from precious gifts, jewels to products like belt, button, handbag, gloves and materials like feather items, glass, footwear, watch, scarf, table wear and silver wear. The experts who visualize and design these products are called Fashion Accessory Designers. They also work as freelancers.
Selecting a product based on one’s own interest is the best technique. It may be the creation of jewels or foot wears. Big institutions appoint permanent designers or appoint freelancers on the basis of commission. Relatively small institutes do the work based on the orders placed by fashion houses or whole/retail dealer.
The ability to foresee the increased demand for a particular product, making contracts with related institutes and a certain amount of luck will help to succeed in this field.
National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT), New Delhi provides training in several areas of Fashion Accessory Designing like Brand Manager, Stylist, Visual Merchandiser and so on.
NIFT centers throughout India provides different courses like
Personal Products and Interior Accessories in Bangalore
Foot Wear and Leather Products in Chennai
Jewelry and Precious Products in Gandhi Nagar
Handicraft, Mix media and Glass in Hyderabad.
For more details, visit www.nift.ac.in.
Footwear Designing Courses in India
Submitted by PremsankarC on Wed, 01/05/2011 - 00:17.- FOOTWEAR TECHNOLOGY DIPLOMA (Three years course, qualification: plus two)
- FOOTWEAR TECHNOLOGY PG DIPLOMA (qualification: degree inscience or engineering)
- FOOTWEAR DESIGNING DIPLOMA (qualification: finearts degree or degree in any subject and little taste in art)
- FOOTWEAR MANAGEMENT PROGRAM (qualification: degree in mechanical/productionengineer or in leather technology).
Also many other courses are available. Thestudents win in high mark can achieve loans from FDDI for starting their ownbusiness.
Visit : www.fddiindia.com for More details
There is B.tech, M.tech and diploma pg courses are available in leather and footwear science and engineering by joining with two poplar vocational training institutes in Bangalore and in the institute named as CENTRAL LEATHER INSTITUTE (CLRI) in Chennai. There are facilities for research in this institute.
There are courses like degree footwear technology and diploma courses in
- CHENNAI CENTRAL FOOTWEAR TRAINING INSTITUTE
- GOVERNMENT LEATHER INSTITUTE
- HARCOURT BUTLER TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FASHION TECHNOLOGY
have some footwear designing specialized courses.
FOOTWEARS ARE NOT SIMPLE
While taking seven people from the whole world, one of them is wearing foot wears made in INDIA. India is in the second position in the global footwear market. The donation of India is about 14% in the world market. China is in the first position. In India about 250 crores pairs of foot wears are making per year. In this year the Indian footwear market is targeting about 20,000 crores in the export sector. India is exporting mainly to the European countries and United States.
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