Career Opportunities in Fashion Technology

Fashion design is the applied art dedicated to clothing and lifestyle accessories created within the cultural and social influences of a specific time. Fashion design differs from costume design due to its core product having a built in usually of one to two seasons. A season is defined as autumn / winter or spring / summer. Clothing companies need to hire people in a variety of jobs, ranging from Fashion designers, textile designers, models, retailers, buyers and merchandisers, to provide end to end solutions to their clients. The scope of fashion design jobs is therefore vast and extends beyond India’s markets to global markets too. Fashion designers such as Giorgio Armani, Ritu Kumar, Raghavendra Rathore, Rohit Bal, J.J.Valaya and Ritu Beri are known worldwide. Institutions provide training to budding fashion designers to develop their talent and become entrepreneurs in the fashion world. The India Fashion Week has become an international fashion event, with buyers from international stores making an appearance to transact business.

Course Details :

The qualification required for a candidate to join the graduate course in fashion technology is a pass in class 10+2. There are quite a lot of colleges in India that offer graduate as well as postgraduate courses in fashion technology. To get admitted into these courses, the students will be needed to write an entrance exam. After finishing their studies, it is possible for students of fashion technology to find jobs with textile mills as well as cloth store chains. In addition to this, boutiques and firms that make leather too take in professionals of Fashion Technology.

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 dressmaking

4)      Government / Semi government handloom / textile manufacturers

5)      Fashion show organisers / Fashion publishers

Institutes Offering

Famous institutes in Fashion Technology are National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) at New Delhi, Mumbai, Calcutta, Gandhinagar, Hyderabad and Chennai; National Institute of Design (NID) Ahmedabad; International Institute of Fashion Technology (IIFT), New Delhi; Indian Institute of Art and Fashion Technology (IIAFT), Mumbai; IEC School of Art and Fashion, New Delhi; Pearl Academy of fashion, New Delhi; J.D Institute of fashion Technology, New Delhi; Apeejay Institute of Design, New Delhi; National Institute of Fashion Design (NIFD), Chandigarh etc

Remuneration :

Remuneration mainly depends on the personal Ability and Skills of the Individual. Generally a fresh graduate can look for a monthly pay packet of Rs.10,000/- to Rs.15000/-. After a couple of years experience and maturity in your career and designing skills, your salary would be in the range of Rs.30,000/- Rs.40,000/- per month. For those who are able to mark a career for themselves in international arena, sky is the limit as far as money and recognition is concerned. They also feature in various page 3 parties and so on. But like all beginners, they too had to make a career struggle at least during earlier stages and this will keep your motivation high to dream bigger and better to make a mark in this career.