Top Companies Hiring Fashion Design Graduates: Recruiters and Salary
Fashion Design Graduate
Fashion Design as a career profile requires one to design clothes, shoes, accessories, and the like. A career in fashion design requires aspirants to sketch designs, followed by selecting patterns as well as fabrics, and then giving instructions to people on how these clothes should be stitched. However, to join the fashion design industry, one needs to be adequately trained regarding what to expect and what tasks to undertake in such a job profile. And for that, one needs to undergo training at a good college offering fashion designing as a course.
Further, one needs to shortlist the design course they want to pursue. There are various courses a fashion design aspirant can consider pursuing. Further in this article, we will be listing the job profiles as well as the top companies that hire fashion design graduates.
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- Fashion Design Job Profiles
- Top Companies Hiring Fashion Design Graduates
- Fashion Designers Hiring Fashion Design Graduates
- Salary of a Fashion Design Graduate
Fashion Design Job Profiles
Job profiles selected by a fashion design graduate largely depend on the sphere of design that they have a keen interest in, as well as the arena in which their skill set lies.
Typically, a fashion design graduate can pursue a career as a fashion designer, fashion concept manager, fashion consultant, technical designer, and similar job profiles.
Top Companies Hiring Fashion Design Graduates
After pursuing a fashion design course, one can either join the corporate sector or work under a designer. Some corporations that hire fashion design graduates are listed below:
- Raymonds
- Arvind Garments
- Levis
- Madura Garments
- Omega Designs
- Pantaloon
- Shahi Exports
- Spykar
- Uni Style India
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Pearl Global
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Kimaya
- Indus League Clothing
- United Colors of Benetton
- ITC Ltd.
- Lifestyle
- Modelama Exports
- Orient Craft
- Proline
- Span India
- Swarovski India
- Texport Overseas
- Shoppers Stop
- Mahajan Overseas
- Gokuldas Images
- H&M
- Zara
- Marks and Spencer
- FabIndia
- Aditya Birla Fashion
- Myntra
- Nykaa
- Ajio
Fashion Designers Hiring Fashion Design Graduates
Some famous Fashion Designers of India who hire graduates of the fashion design course are listed below:
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Salary of a Fashion Design Graduate
The salary of a Fashion Design graduate is as follows:
| Experience Level | Role | Average Salary (INR/Per Month) |
|---|---|---|
| Entry Level (0-2 years) | Asst. Fashion Designer, Production Assistant, Fashion Illustrator | 25,000 to 40,000 |
| Mid Level (3-6 years) | Fashion Designer, Product Developer, Merchandiser | 50,000 to 1,00,000 |
| Senior Level (7+years) | Design Manager, Creative Director, Head Designer | 1,00,000 to 2,50,000 |
| Own Label or Freelancer | Brand Income or Project-based | 50,000 to 5,00,000 |
The fee structure for the design courses offered by the NIFTs is published in the information brochure. The NIFT fee structure includes components like tuition fees, library fees, exam fees, mediclaim, etc. Additional, the fee may also be divided into refundable and non-refundable types.
We can have a look at 2025 fee structure and understand the NIFT fee structure (Regular):
Academic Fee Semester Wise For Non-NRI Category (In INR) | ||||||||
| 2023-24 | 2024-25 | 2025-26 | 2026-27 | ||||
| Semester 1 | Semester 2 | Semester 3 | Semester 4 | Semester 5 | Semester 6 | Semester 7 | Semester 8 |
Tuition Fee (Non-Refundable) | 143000 | 143000 | 150000 | 150000 | 158000 | 158000 | 166000 | 166000 |
Library Fee (Non-Refundable Per Year Payment) | 9500 | 0 | 10000 | 0 | 10500 | 0 | 11000 | 0 |
Mediclaim & Student Development Fee (Non-Refundable Per Year Payment) | 4700 | 0 | 4900 | 0 | 5100 | 0 | 5400 | 0 |
Exam Fee (Per Year) | 4700 | 0 | 4900 | 0 | 5100 | 0 | 5400 | 0 |
Total | 161900 | 143000 | 169800 | 150000 | 178700 | 158000 | 187800 | 166000 |
One Time Payments | ||||||||
Security Deposit (Refundable) | 12000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Alumni Association Membership Fee (Non-Refundable) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5900 | 0 |
Registration Fee (One Time) | 9300 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Total | 21300 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5600 | 0 |
Total | 183200 | 143000 | 169800 | 150000 | 178700 | 158000 | 193700 | 166000 |
NIFT Bengaluru has 190 BDes and 38 BFTech seats. NIFT Bengaluru is one of the leading fashion design colleges in India. The admission cut-off for the institute tends to be higher, so the candidate must have a high merit rank to have a good chance of admission. Admission to both the BDes and BFTech courses at the institute will be conducted on the basis of the merit rank of the candidate in the NIFT 2023 exam. Candidates seeking admission to the BDes programme need to appear in the CAT GAT and Situation Test. However, BFTech applicants only need to take the GAT exam.
The candidate will be able to select their choice of NIFT 2025 participating institutes (in the order of priority) at the time of filling out the NIFT 2025 counseling registration form.
Online registration for NIFT 2025 counseling will start soon after the final results are declared.
The counseling registrations for NIFT 2025 will be open to candidates who have qualified in the NIFT 2025 entrance exam.
The allotment of seats (or campus) to the B. Des programme will be on the basis of merit rank of the candidate in the NIFT 2025 entrance exam and campus selected. So, candidates who are higher in the NIFT 2025 merit rank will be given preference in the seat allotment.
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There are 19 NIFTs that will accept NIFT 2026 Scores for admission purposes. These institutes are known as participating colleges.
However, in addition to the participating colleges, there are other private colleges that will also consider NIFT 2026 scores for admission to their UG and PG design courses. The candidates are urged to go through the list of result-sharing institutes.