Your career after a course in Fashion or Textile Designing

Fashion Designing is a form of art dedicated to the creation of clothing and other lifestyle accessories. In other words, it is an attempt to design clothes which are functional and as well as aesthetically pleasing. Modern fashioning designing is divided into two basic categories: Haute couture, and Ready-to-wear.

Textile designing, on the other hand, is the process of creating designs and structures for knitted, woven, non-woven or embellishments of fabrics. Fiber, yarn and finishes are the key elements to be considered during the textile design procedure.

Eligibility Criteria:

An aspiring fashion designer can pursue a Diploma or Degree in Fashion designing after clearing class 12 with Science stream. They may also pursue Postgraduate studies in Fashion Designing after completing a Bachelor's Degree in Science or Arts or should be a Bachelor's Degree holder in Fine Arts.

Textile Designers can pursue 2 to 4-year Diploma or Degree programmes in Textile designing after class 12. Institutes offering specialized postgraduate programmes in Textile Designing ask for wither graduation in textile design and allied subjects or may conduct entrance tests for their programmes.

Career Prospects:

Fashion designing offers a promising scope for financial as well as professional growth. The programmes in fashion design can lead to careers as a:

• Fashion designer
• Accessories designer
• Design production management
• Quality controller
• Fashion merchandiser
• Sketcher
• Patternmaker
• Color mixer
• Design director
• Marketing researcher

Export houses dealing with garments, textiles or hand loom exports; retail and wholesale garment businesses; government/semi government-hand loom or textile manufacturers; fashion show organizers; fashion publishers; and TV/Film fashion programme producers also readily hire fashion designers.

Textile designers can find good job prospects in design studios, textile mills, export houses, textile dyeing, printing units, and fashion garment houses. They can also work with cottage industries, small scale industries and as entrepreneurs.

Fashion designers can usually earn Rs. 12, 000 to Rs 15, 000 per month as a fresher. The remuneration also depends upon the designer's team, and working area. Textile designers from reputed design schools earn between than Rs. 15,000 to Rs.20, 000 per month during training for a job.