What would you imagine as soon as you hear the word “fashion”. “Fashion” is a word that conjures up such images in the common person, as glamorous fashion shows and fantastic ramp walks and such clothes that blow one’s mind. Yet, most of us only see what is on display and not what goes on behind the scenes. It takes many people and countless hours to put together each fashion show with its glamorous ramp walks. Indeed, each costume requires intense training, and this is not very different from any other profession. If you are not very familiar with the fashion industry, it could seem that fashion is a single stream without any tributaries. However, the fashion industry has many specializations and offers a wide variety of careers to choose from. Of the many careers you could choose in this industry, fashion design and textile design are the most popular careers. A layperson may be confused between the two and may think that both are the same career. However, this is not true at all. Both textile design and fashion design careers have very different roles in the industry. Keep reading on to understand the difference between textile design and fashion design.
Fashion designing is the field in the fashion industry that is most popular. Indeed, if you tell most people that you want to pursue a career in the fashion industry, they assume you want to be a fashion designer. This is because fashion designing deals with creating artistic and unique jewellery, garments, footwork and other accessories. The top institutes in India that provide many fashion courses are the National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT), JD Institute of Fashion Technology, and a few more.
The primary task of a fashion designer is to create artistic designs and patterns for garments. As mentioned above, fashion designs also make footwear and other such accessories. Their methodology follows a particular order. They first think of a design for clothing and sketch it out on paper with their desired colours. Then they select fabrics that would be best for the development of the designs onto garments. Finally, they cut the fabric and sewed the garment. It is essential for fashion designers to have a thorough knowledge of the properties of different fabrics, pattern making on garments, garment fittings and different body shapes. Fashion designers then create a collection of garments for retailers for every new season. It is also up to the fashion designers to source the fabrics and other accessories they would require to create their garments. When needed, fashion designers sometimes take the help of textile designers for the fabric designs that they had imagined for the garments.
Fashion designers generally work in apparel buying houses, boutiques, garment manufacturing companies or with fashion firms. However, before you can become a fashion designer, you will be required to have some educational qualifications. To pursue a career in fashion designing, here are the degrees that you could opt for-
You could pursue the following degrees if you wish to pursue a Master’s degree.
Textile designing is yet another stream in the fashion industry, like fashion designing. In the field of textile designing, an individual can open for themselves various opportunities. For example, they could opt for jobs in textile houses, apparel manufacturers, fabric houses and many more.
The main task of a textile designer is to create patterns and designs on fabric and develop various fabric structures. A textile designer aims to produce material and various embellishments on fabrics. Being a textile designer, you would have to select yarns, the colour of the yarns and dyes to make fabrics of different textures and give each fabric a unique look and feel. Like fashion designers, textile designers have to source their raw material and provide instructions for the knitters and weavers about making a fabric they have designed. They also select prints that would go on each fabric. Textile designers also have to consider such factors as how environmentally friendly and cost-effective the fabrics are. Textile designers are the ones who develop the raw material for fashion designers.
As we said earlier, textile designers generally work in textile manufacturing companies or textile design firms. But before one can become a textile designer, one will be required to meet some educational requirements. Here is a list of degrees that would help you on the path to pursue textile designing as a career.
To open more opportunities for yourself in textile designing and the fashion industry as a whole, you could also opt for a Master’s or higher degree to specialise in the field you want. Here is a list of degrees you could pursue.
You will find that both fashion design and textile design, though they may seem related, each field is quite different. The fact is that fashion design covers many areas under textile design as well and can thus be deemed informally as an umbrella term. Suppose you are an aspirant who wants to make a career in this industry. In that case, you must complete your education in a reputed industry like the JD Institute of Fashion Technology. Besides getting the opportunity to pursue your desired stream, we will nurture you according to your skillset. We do not believe in the “One size fits all” philosophy and pay special attention to every student. This makes us one of the pioneer institutes for fashion technology.
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