Fashion is ever changing. Today everybody is fashion conscious. Men, women and children like to keep themselves update with the current fashion trends. Fashion is not limited to designers’ clothes. Perfect make up, matching jewelry, hairstyle in combination of with various accessories including purse, hang bags, scarf etc that matches with the dresses completes what we call fashion. Fashion designers are the one who always come up with new dress designs, quality textiles, matching accessories in accordance with the changing trends, local conditions and budget of the client etc.
Today fashion designing is the most sought after career option available for the youth.
Basic personality trait require to make career in fashion designing
To make career in fashion designing, you need to have
- Creativity and artistic flavor
- Love for color, ability to combine color to different tones and shade
- Good visual imagination
- Ability to think in three dimension to translate textile into garments
- Flair for creating with fabrics
- Ability to grasps market requirements and latest fashion trend
- Basic tailoring skills like stitching, sewing, draping etc
- Ability to identify different fabrics qualities
Required educational qualification for pursuing fashion designing course
For making a career in fashion designing, you need to pursue a course in fashion designing. The minimum qualification required for the course is Intermediate pass. However different institutions have different eligibility criteria that you need to check before applying for fashion designing course.
Career options after successful completion of fashion designing course
A student of fashion designing after successful completion of the course can work in garment industries, jewelry industries and leather industries etc as:
- Fashion designer: Responsible for developing new and original design of the clothes according to client’s taste, local market conditions, current trends etc.
- Fashion Coordinators: Responsible for arranging and supervising marketing fashionable clothes in manufacturing house, retail stores and textile firms.
- Illustrator: Responsible for drawing free hand sketches of designers ideas and is most sought after by big fashion house and garment industries.
- Fashion Consultant: Posses’ wide knowledge on new trends and transitions in the fashion world. Provide new ideas to develop a product to make it more demanding by the customer.
- Cutting Assistants: Responsible for cutting samples and making and altering the patterns that can be converted into real garments.
- Sketching Assistants: Responsible for making technical sketches of the garments and drawing for presentation. This helps in deciding how a garment can be fabricated.
- Fashion Stylist: Responsible promoting sales of the products by coordinating entire wardrobe for a fashion show or any other fashion program. Nature of the job involves coordinating the dress, accessories, make up, hairstyle, even the color of the nail polish of the model according to the theme and the overall look of the show.