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Career in Fashion in India (Cochin, Bangalore)

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Fashion technology has a wide scope for choosing a career. Now the fashion industry has become so specialized that it encompasses a vast field of studies in design, concept management, design production management, quality control, planning, fabric design, printing, fashion accessory design, fashion merchandising, textile science, colour mixing, marketing and so on. 

The primary areas of work in the fashion industry are market research, designing and manufacturing of garments and textiles. Fashion design is the most important area of work in fashion industry. Designing involves creating original designs after studying the changing trends of the market i.e market research.

It has various fields of specialisation like garments, footwear, jewellery and even luggage. It is a challenging field as it requires the coordination of various jobs, in small concerns it is usually a one man show but in big organisations the jobs are specialised and allotted to different people. 

Minimum eligibility for the Undergraduate course in this field is 10+2 with 50% marks and for Post Graduate courses graduation. In the prominent institutes, admission is strictly on merit- through written test, situation test, group discussion and interview. The courses include Graduate, Post graduate, Certificate and Diploma in the following areas: 

  1. Accessory designing and fashion designing
  2. Garment Manufacturing Technology
  3. Apparel marketing and Merchandising
  4. Leather and Garment Design and Technology
  5. Knitwear Design and Technology
  6. Textile Design and Development
  7. Fashion Journalism and Presentation

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Career Prospects

There are opportunities for work with the various sectors dealing with fashion. The opportunities for job exist in the following sectors :

     

  1. Export houses dealing with garment/textile/handloom exports.
  2. Retail and wholesale garment businesses in men's/women's/children clothing in sportswear /casual wear, etc.
  3. Haute Courture
  4. Government/Semi government-handloom/textile manufacturers
  5. Fashion show organisers/Fashion publishers
  6. TV/Film fashion programme producers/comperes/costume designers, etc.

Colleges/Universities offering courses in Biotechnology

India

  • International Institute of Fashion Technology, Haus Khas, New Delhi-210016.
  • Indian Institute of Art and Fashion Technology (IIAFT), Mumbai University,
  • Mangalore Institute of Fashion Technology (MIFT), Kulai, Mangalore-574196
  • Calicut University, Calicut University  P.O., Kozhikode - 673635, Kerala

United States

  • American InterContinental University (AIU)
  • Fashion Institute Of Design & Merchandising-Los Angeles
  • International Academy of Science and Technology

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