Fashion Design

Hi Ananya!
Fashion Communication is one of the newest and upcoming fields in the fashion industry. The fashion industry is growing very fast and thus, tremendous opportunities have opened up for a fashion communication professional, who will work on design strategies, brands, portfolios etc. He / she is also responsible to work on areas such as visual merchandising, styling, graphic design, display and exhibit design, advertising, public relations, and creative writing. The curriculum of fashion communication includes areas such as graphic design, visual merchandising / retail experience design, exhibition and display design, event management, photography, styling, advertising, public relations and creative writing specific to fashion and lifestyle industry. Fashion Communication students emerge as dynamic professionals qualified to offer the most effective and financially viable communication solutions for the fashion and lifestyle industry. Brands like Pantaloons, Lifestyle, Shopper's Stop, Benetton, Femina etc. Always look out for fashion communication experts. Top Colleges in India for fashion communication are:
National Institute of Fashion Technology, Bangalore
National Institute of Fashion Technology, New Delhi
National Institute of Fashion Technology, Mumbai
National Institute of Fashion Technology, Chennai
Symbiosis Institute of Design.

Hi Sunetra!
You should pursue a Bachelors or Masters in fashion design first. You can apply and pursue internship at some reputed fashion house, which will help you to get an edge over others when you apply for a job. You should gain some experience as an employee with some fashion brand for about 5-8 years if you wish to work independently later. In order to work as a designer for actors and actresses, you need to work hard and exhibit your work at bigger levels. Hence I have advised you to look out for reputed fashion brands to work with. Also, read some case studies of the big brand to understand how they made it big in the industry. If you have the passion and talent, nobody can stop you from being a successful fashion designer.

The new academic year generally begins in the month of July. The course fee for interior designing varies in different colleges, but for an idea, government colleges like, NIFT or NID would charge around INR 8 Lacs for a 4-year course. The private colleges would definitely have higher fees than this. Situation test is a practical based test. It doesn't relates to your specific stream, but is conducted on a basic level for every design student no matter which stream in design he/she further wishes to choose. The situation test is all about creative, innovative ideas, which are to be shown practically with a limited time frame. The material is provided to you which can be anything. Like a paper or a matchstick or may be a rubber band. You will have to use the material to build what the question says. You will be judged on various things like idea, creativity and how you can think out of box in the given time.