Fashion Design

Hi, NIFT is undoubtedly the best Institute in India and is well reputed internationally as well.nNIFT Alumni are always given an edge over the other colleaguesnYou can apply for scholarships, which is given on the basis of merit, financial background or bothnIn Design course, you do have a lot of projects and submissions. Yes, it does involve extra expenses. On an average you'll be spending approximately 6-7000 on them. But they do add to your portfolio and are totally worth it.nIn terms of package, you can expect a min of 23-25000 INR pm in hand.nYou do have a lot of spare time during the course. So, you can always utilize them to earn few extra bucks.nIf you are very much interested in design and strongly want to pursue it as your profession, Ill say yes. But if you are not sure about it, don't take it forward. Design is too much of hard work and extensive research and getting practical as well as balancing the artsy side. Most don't find it suitable and that become their the worst decision. So if you really want to ask if its worth, ask yourself will you able to? And how interested are you? All the best.

Hello,
Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology or KIIT began it's journey in a two room apartment as a vocational skill imparting institute to today's deemed to be university spread over 25 Sq. Km area. It's equipped with almost all sports facilities and uses state of the art facilities for teaching. This Bhuvaneshwar based institution is one of the best in Odisha. Right from beginning, it has aimed at placing it's students with the industry. It has a good rapport with industry and it definitely helps to achieve placements. Of course this greatly depends on the students who put in lot of hard work with the motivated faculty to achieve excellence in academics. It claims to have placed 100% students last year. It's a four year Bachelors course in fashion design is a hit with students. With almost 20 different streams of studies, and hence related close knit network with Industry, students get opportunities to work as interns that in turn helps in final placements. It is a good Institute to opt for.

I am listing down several methods to learn about fashion, trends and fashion designing for you:
1 - WGSN : You should check out WGSN website every now and then. It's all about fashion, the latest trends, forecast reports, market reports, new silhouettes, new brands, the latest collections. They also have reports in form of power point or PDF presentation.
2 - VOGUE : Keep yourself updated with the latest runways and fashion week. By doing that you will get to know what designers are up to and what all new techniques and details they are using. You will find all of these things easily on VOGUE website because they keep updating there website very frequently. You will get to know what happened at Paris fashion week last night also with the review report.
3 - Promostyl: Go through the latest promostyl books, you will get an idea about the fashion forecast. They have different books for different category. For example - one for women's wear, one for men's wear, children wear and colors etc. I know it's not a magazine which you will get anywhere, but what are college libraries for?
4 - Social networking sites: follow the fashion designers, magazines and fashion blogger on Instagram and Facebook. So, that whenever you get time you can have a quick glance over the latest stories for designers.
5 - Magzter: subscribe Magzter, if you are a magazine lover, you will get each and every fashion magazine there.
6 - International online shopping sites: it's one of the best way to look for the designers and fashion brands the latest collection. There are several sites like XOXO and anthropology.

Since fashion designing is a vast field, one needs a skill set to survive in the industry otherwise it's too tough. But, the skill requirements also depends on the person's job profile or the company he/she are working with. Anyways, I am listing down a set of skills which you need to be good in:
1 - Communication skills, because no one knows how good are you at your work, or how creative ideas you have in your mind, until and unless you will explain them in words. And, it is better if you also know some other foreign languages like - French, Italian, German, Spanish etc.
2 - Pattern making knowledge (basics at least), so that you can have a rough idea about the fabric consumption of your designed garment, or the garment you designed on paper is possible to make or not. It will also help you in developing and designing new and creative silhouettes.
3 - Drawing skills, even if you are not good with your hand, I will suggest you to develop it. You won't have a desktop in front of you always. And, it is necessary to explain your ideas or design to someone in drawing or illustration form. You will always have an upper hand, if you are good at sketching.
4 - Softwares like Adobe Photoshop (Ps), Adobe core draw, Adobe illustrator (Ai), Adobe InDesign (Id) etc. And it's always good, if you know more.
5 – You should know about the different textiles and weaves (especially Indian textiles).
6 - Embroidery techniques (traditional as well as modern and contemporary).
7 - Fabric manipulating techniques (for example pin tucks, smocking etc.). Sand surface ornamentation with conventional / non-conventional material.
8 - Should know about various dying and printing methods like digital printing, block printing, screen printing, shibori, tie and dye etc.
9 - DRAPING: Because you will always be creating a new silhouette, whenever you will start draping a piece of cloth.
10 - Garment construction: Yes, you are not a tailor but it is important to know the basic of garment construction. So that you know what finishing should be given in a particular silhouette and fabric. Also, you will know that how time that garment going to consume.
11 - Good color and aesthetic sense: Because at the end of day, your garments should look good aesthetically, also color play an important role to add up in a garments beauty.
12 - Photography basics.
13 - Styling, so that you know that what coordinates good with your garment. Because, bad choice of coordinates can ruin the outfit.