Fashion Design

If you are interested in fashion designing programme and you want to enter into fashion industry, it's good choice. The minimum eligibility criteria for fashion design programme is 50% aggregate marks in 10+2 with English. Fashion design is a form of art. To work as a designer, you should have an artistic and creative personality. You also have to be good at drawing and able to express your ideas in sketches. You don't necessarily have to be a great artist, but you must have some special skills for combining colors, tones and shades. You also have to be able to work with fabric and use textiles in a creative and original manner. Fashion designers have a good visual imagination and are able to think in three-dimensions and put their ideas into garments. Career Prospects:
Fashion designer
Merchandising
Fashion design producer
Technical designer
Fashion coordinator
Apparel production manager
Quality control manager
Fashion writer
Fashion photographer
Fashion Illustrator
Fashion Stylist
Top colleges which are doing good in Fashion Designing:
BIT Ranchi
NSIT, New Delhi
Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar
College of Engineering, Pune
Faculty of Engineering & Technology, Jamia Millia Islamia.

Fashion Design programme fee is vary from college to college. Fashion Design is one of the popular courses among the students who want to make their career in the fashion industry. One of my friend is doing B.Design (Fashion) from Lovely Professional University though he was a science student. I have seen his growth in academic as well as , as a human being, LPU provides a platform for the student to enhance their skills in sports, co-curricular, cultural activities, practical exposure, etc.
He wrote an entrance exam for Eligibility and Scholarship and on the basis of this test he got scholarship for his degree(4 years). His fees was Rs. 24500 per semester. He told me about the a student organizations of which he was a member. His team conducted a fundraising event so that they can provide useful things to a school and an old age home. Their team also took orphans to a science city tour . they had organised many free health check-up camp in villages. All these activities have improved his managing skills, time management, presentation skills. I noticed that after joining LPU he improved a lot.
He also said that university provides a platform to the students to run their own venture, a student can avail seed money for initiating the project. Currently, he started his own venture on campus and doing well in that. He is staying in a hostel because services are too good like mess facility, internet services, tv room, biometric facility and wardens are so supportive. He is also a badminton player and got a chance to play in AIU and won many prizes. He told me he was enrolled in Professional Enhancement programme and curriculum incorporates specific courses to crack the placement processes.

Hi Pawan!
You don't need to essentially join a coaching centre in order to crack NIFT Entrance Exam. You can get admission at a NIFT completely on the basis of self-study. You need to follow an effective NIFT Entrance Exam Preparation Strategy that will separate you from rest of the test takers. Apart from your dedication and sincerity, knowing few practical tips will help you to a great extent in cracking the entrance exam. Read below the top tips on how to crack the entrance exam and secure a seat at the prestigious institute:
1)Develop Observation & Visualisation Skills-The most crucial purpose of the exam is to test candidates creative and imaginative skills. Apart from that, the questions are framed in order to judge their general awareness, observation skills and visualisation as well. It is a common myth among students that only good sketching is essential to crack the entrance exam. This is not true, as developing the aforementioned skills is equally important. You need to work on enhancing this skill set first.
2) Improve your Speed-Having exceptional drawing skills and creativity is useless if you don't have speed. The whole idea is to be able to present your imagination and uniqueness in the exam in the limited time duration. You should work on enhancing your speed so that you can answer all the questions in the given time.
3) Solve Sample Papers- Practice sample papers as much as you can. This will give you an idea about the types of questions that are asked in the exam. You will know the overall difficulty level of the entrance test as well. Moreover, this will aid in increasing your speed to a great extent. Solving previous years papers will also let you know the sequence in which you should answer different sections. Practice NIFT Entrance Exam Sample Papers.
4) Improve General Awareness-It is not necessary that you cram up your mind with each and every General Knowledge book. Awareness about current happenings is more important. For this, read newspapers daily. Moreover, you should also know about famous designers who have contributed in this challenging field. Spend time on reading fashion & design books/magazines. You need to develop a genuine passion for this domain.
5) Don't waste time in Erasing & Redrawing-In the limited hours given to you for completing the exam, you have to make sure that you do not waste time in erasing and redrawing, which most of the candidates do.

Hi,
You can go for B. Design (Fashion) after class 12th. Eligibility for B. Design (Fashion) in most of the top universities is pass with 50% aggregate marks in 10+2, and you might have to qualify some entrance test of the university, (it may vary with the university you choose).
Main aim of this degree is providing extensive input in both the design and technology which is necessary to begin a career in fashion industry. It will be advisable if you do your degree from a well-known university and that provides prime placement opportunity, outstanding industrial exposure and professional enhancement training. I can enlist some university for your help -
Lovely Professional University, National Institute of Design- Ahmedabad, Symbiosis Institute of Design, Pearl Academy, Delhi etc. I hope it helps.