The industry of Fashion and fashion designing has been growing steadily for over a century now. AT present, fashion designing has become one of the most popular Design specializations for people or rather students. Every year thousands of students have been applying to various fashion designing institutes all across the country and even in the world to pursue their dream of becoming successful fashion designers in future. If you too want to become a successful fashion designer, your best choice would be to get a degree from our institute, JD Institute of Fashion Technology. We have been a pioneer institute for all those students who want to pursue a future in the fashion industry. Besides offering Bachelor’s degrees in streams such as interior designing, fashion management etc., we offer both Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Fashion Designing. 

In India, fashion designing is not considered a mainstream career owing to societal standards. Therefore, there is a prevalent opinion that fashion designing is not a preferable course. However, it would help if you always believed in your dreams, and we are here to tell you all about the different careers and opportunities open for you in the fashion industry. You can rest assured that the fashion industry is here to stay and flourish for quite the foreseeable future.

Fashion designing courses

When you are a student aspiring to pursue Fashion as a professional career, you would first need a degree, which is a Bachelor’s degree in Fashion Designing. It is an undergraduate degree. In universities and colleges throughout the country and the world, students can earn a Master’s degree in Fashion Designing and specialize in the stream of Fashion they wish to pursue. However, before that, you would first need to know how to follow the required degrees and the careers that constitute the fashion industry. In some cases, students can also opt for a Short-term Diploma or certificate programmes in Fashion Designing. It is important to note that it will be better for you as an aspirant to get a degree as it will open up more opportunities for you, and you will be learning all of the basics thoroughly.

Fashion Designing Eligibility criteria and Skills required

To pursue a Bachelor’s degree in Fashion designing, you have to first clear your 10+2 level examination in any stream from a recognized board. After that, you will be eligible to pursue Fashion Designing at the graduation level at various institutes. Therefore, passing out from a recognized board is an essential eligibility criterion. Because of this, you must keep this in mind being a fashion aspirant. 

After completing your Bachelor’s degree in Fashion Design, your first choice could be to pursue a Master’s degree in Fashion Design. You could specialize in a particular stream in the fashion designing stream. For pursuing a Master’s degree, you must complete your Bachelor’s degree with a minimum percentage of 45% from a recognized university or institute.

Besides the required educational qualifications, you will need to have specific skills to enter into fashion designing. For example, you can succeed in your job even better if you have a creative and artistic personality. You would also need a knack for drawing and sketching. Here are the skills that would help you achieve your dreams in Fashion better.

• A creative and artistic taste and an imaginative mind would help you in your job more.
• Make sure you are sensitive to different colours, tones and shades.
• It is essential to be goal-orientated and must be able to meet deadlines.
• You must be able to turn visualizations into a garment by imagining in three-dimension
• It would help if you had a thorough understanding of the customer lifestyle and also understand the business.

Fashion designing careers after graduating with B.Des in Fashion 

If you do not wish to do a Master’s Degree in Fashion Design, there are still several paths open for you that you could take after completing your graduation with a fashion design degree. After doing your Bachelor’s, you will gain the required knowledge of various weaves, fabrics, colours, the upcoming trends and much more. Here is a list of careers you can opt for after completing a B.Des in Fashion Design.

1. Fashion Designer: In this job, you will have the chance to either open your fashion label or work under a fashion firm. As a fashion designer, aspirants have to work with different varieties of clothes and style them such as women’s wear, children’s wear, jeans, jackets, evening wear, sportswear, etc.
2. Fashion Marketer: When you become a fashion marketer, you have the option to work in boutiques, clothing companies or any outlet chain. Aspirants must publicize increasing awareness of a particular brand or label or any departmental store in this job. Thus, an individual would be required to plan, direct and coordinate the programmes and marketing policies.
3. Quality controller: The first and foremost task of a quality controller is to set some quality standards for everything purchased under a new collection. Besides this task, a quality controller or the quality control (QC) manager also issues specific guidelines for each department to ascertain the quality of garments and other processes.
4. Fashion Consultant or Personal Stylist: This is a job where fashion aspirants are self-employed. This job has higher risks as you won’t have the job security of working in a firm or departmental store. You can only succeed if you build an excellent reputation for yourself in the fashion industry. The primary task of a fashion consultant or personal stylist is to help their clients develop a wardrobe that suits their style and image.

Besides these careers, you could also opt for pursuing a career as a fashion show organizer, fashion coordinator, technical designer, etc.

Top Recruiters for Fashion Design

After your Bachelor’s degree, you could apply for a job in fashion designing in any of these companies.

1. Raymonds
2. Benetton
3. Spykar
4. Swarovski India
5. Indus League
6. Levi’s
7. Shopper Stop
8. Lifestyle 
9. ITC Ltd.
10. Orient Craft

Conclusion

Thus, you now know the various careers you have the opportunity to pursue after your Bachelor’s degree in Fashion Designing. To achieve a degree in this field, you must follow this degree from a reputed institute. At JD Institute of Fashion technology, we guide all fashion aspirants in the best way possible as we modify our teaching methods according to each candidate’s needs and specific skill set. We do not believe in the “One size fits all” philosophy and believe that aspirants can only succeed in the fashion industry if you train them according to their aptitudes.