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In LPU, fashion design course offers an ideal career choice for students with a creative mind. You can choose to design anything ranging from apparels to accessories such as handbags, scarves, shoes, patterns, styles, fabrics, colours, and trends. The course aims to cultivate design skills to serve the society within given resources and sustainability. LPU School of Design offers its students cutting-edge labs and equipment to simulate the industry environment with practical exposure to fashion industry right from designing to merchandising.The school provides a platform for students to experiment with creative designs, patterns, fabrics and colors. Live with fashion events, visits by renowned national and international fashion designers, innovation and creativity is fostered in the students at every step.
LPU offers following streams under fashion designing in diploma , graduation and post graduation -
Moving beyond the brick and mortar classroom, Lovely Professional University expose you to experience from around the world using online platforms, alumni networks etc. LPU curriculum is benchmarked with some of the best universities of the world, but continues to retain its uniqueness and innovativeness. It is up-to-date and linked closely with employer demands making the graduates best fits. Along with basic and technical inputs in a programme, curriculum provides extra inputs for improving your language, analytical and reasoning, and soft skills. Live and entrepreneurial assignments and projects integrated in the curriculum provide you opportunities to explore an entrepreneur in you. LPU curriculum provides the flexibility to pick elective subjects of your choice and design your own pathway of learning. A wide variety of interdisciplinary electives allow you to widen your horizon and explore your hidden potential. Based on this programme a student has the career opportunities like Visual Merchandiser, Apparel procurement manager, Fashion retail store manager, Fashion designer in Export/ buying/ Retail houses, Apparel and design production manager, Fashion educators (teaching) or entrepreneur of fashion boutique, owner of production house of fashion apparel, Fashion stylist and many more options are there. The workshops are conducted for hands on experience on graphic design, knitting technology, digital marketing, design portfolio, fashion design and grooming, fabric draping etc. LPU organizes various styling workshops as well as Mega fashion shows which are very helpful to the students.
Major companies in this field are:- Michael Kors, Armani Exchange, SatyaPaul, Genesis, Tommy Hilfiger, Raymond, Ginni&Jony, Gant, JCT, Monte Carlo, Duke, Neva , U-V & W, Rage, Shopper's Stop, DNMX, Pantaloons,HiDesign, Madame, Derby, York , Rituwear, Mufti, Diva, Nahar, Lagoona exports, Vinayak exports, matrix clothing etc. Based on all the above facts I believe Lovely professional university is good in all the aspects.
Fashion designing is one of the extremely lucrative and glamorous career option and opens a world of opportunities for anyone with a passion in this field. Today one may choose to specialize in any one of the sub-fields of fashion such as Apparel designing, Jewelers designing, Accessory designing. The options are limitless! The job of a fashion designer is very demanding which involves meeting daily deadlines, traveling dusty roads to reach the local markets for procuring material, dealing with workers and managing a team effectively. Talented people in this domain enjoy glamour, success & high compensation.
Career Opportunities in Fashion Design
* Garment and textile export houses
* Textile and fabric manufacturing units
* Branded fashion showrooms
* Television and Film Industry
* Boutiques
* Retail Chains
* Independent, self-employed fashion designers
* Teaching in an institute that offers courses in fashion designing
Top Fashion Design Institutes in India:
NIFT
Lovely Professional University
Symbiosis Institute of Design
Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology
Indian school of Design and Innovation
LPU is the best option for Fashion Design.
LPU shines in different categories in NIRF 2020 Ranking Released By MHRD, Government of India
Lovely Professional University's commitment to teaching excellence and providing highest quality education to its students has once again brought laurels. The Ministry of Human Resource Department, Government of India has released NIRF Ranking 2020 and LPU appears in Top 100 in its most crucial Overall category, which includes IITs and Central Universities. LPU is also ranked 78th in the list of all the government and private universities of the country. University’s Engineering School is in the Top 100, Management School in the Top 50, and Pharmacy School in the Top 30 institutions of India.
Fashion designing has become very popular in India in the last few years and many people are now considering it as a career choice. With economic prosperity, the average income of Indians has increased. Hence, people have better lifestyles compared to the past and they can afford to spend more on their attire. As a result, there is an increased demand for professionals who can design and create new garments, dresses and attires to cater to the tastes of people from different walks of life.
A career in fashion designing is considered as financially rewarding and has become very popular with people with creative mindset. It is normally looked at as a field full of glamor, though the field is full of very intense competition and huge number of challenges as well. However, there is a wide scope of fashion designing in India as well as abroad. Fashion designing students enjoy a lot of choices once they complete their fashion designing professional studies.
The fashion designers in the 21st century have multiple number of options including research, designing, cloth production and textile designing, etc.
There is also a huge scope of fashion designing in Canada, USA, UK and countries in the European Union.
They are free to join garment manufacturing companies, fashion houses, export units etc. after the completion of their studies.
The scope of fashion technology is not only limited to garments. It covers many other aspects such as jewellery, accessories, footwear, etc.
Scope of Fashion Designing Professions in India
Fashion designing aspirants can opt for a variety of professions and the most popular among them are as follows:
Lovely Professional University is regarded as one of the Best Design colleges in India and Punjab, LPU School of Design offers its students cutting-edge labs and equipment to simulate the industry environment with practical exposure to fashion industry right from designing to merchandising.
My cousin sister is pursuing B.Design (Fashion) from LPU itself.she has discussed few points with me about her course:-
She told me Study tours are an integral part of curriculum with visitation of architectural and prominent sites provides maximum exposure to learn technicalities of architecture.
She said. Fashion designing is a branch having a lot of scope and in LPU, they give a lot of exposure to students, through guest lectures from industry top shots, various in campus and out campus fashion shows, and also they have their own store where the students’creations are showcased and sold.
The school provides a platform for students to experiment with creative designs, patterns, fabrics and colors. Live with fashion events, visits by renowned national and international fashion designers, innovation and creativity is fostered in the students at every step.
They are encouraged to experiment with different materials to create conceptual wear and accessories.Also Students are exposed to fashion shows, craft fairs, industry internships and craft documentation.
They get intensive exposure to practical work in Pattern making, Draping, Weaving, Printing, Dyeing, Garment Construction labs.Students are given various Live-projects during the course of the program to create commercially viable designs.
School of Design organized Face Painting and nail painting competition for students to showcase their creative talents.
She has attended workshop on "Fashion styling" by Anuj Lalawani (Renowned Designer & Stylist) where students got training in different creative endeavors like body fit, make up, dressing and grooming.
She went to educational tours to complement in-class learning. Students visit various monumental buildings and industries across India such as marble industries, tile industries, Thermax industry, Ashok Leyland, Tata Motors etc.
She talked about placements,
So, LPU provides a good platform for placements for all streams and programs. LPU has a separate dept which looks after placement opportunities. apart from that, each school has its own placement coordinator who is responsible and actively works for not only calling companies to the campus, but also for preparing students for placements by giving them proper training.
LPU students have been placed in well reputed national as well as international clothing brand like H & M, acquiring 14 Lakhs + per annum pay package.
Genesis, a premium brand under Reliance Retail selected 6 students at an average pay package of 4 lac Per annum.
SatyaPaul selected 4 students @ the average package of 4 lac Per annum. Satya Paul is India’s premier designer label with an International presence.
Marks & Spencer one of the leading global brand selected 5 students of graduation and post graduation @ 4.5 Lakh p.a. during campus placement drive.
Prominent brands like Coach, Genesis, Michael Kors, Armani Exchange, Diesel, Kate Spade, Steve Madden selected LPU students.
Marks & Spencer one of the leading global brands selected 5 students of graduation and post graduation @ 4.5 Lakh p.a. during campus placement drive.
Well Fashion designing is one of the most glamorous,fascinating and appealing career options in today's world that satiate your passion for creativity and is fulfilling in terms of fame and high pay package if you are talented.
There are various courses available to help you create a space in this field like Diploma,Undergraduate,Postgraduate diploma in Fashion Designing.There are courses after fashion designing after 10th as well as 12th.
UG Programmes include BBA in fashion designe and Business,B.A. in fashion and textile design.It takes around 4 years and provides you with the required skills that would help you survive in fashion business on the whole.
Short duration programmes:
1. Computer Aided and Fashion Designing- 6 Months
2. Fashion Illustration- 2 Months
3. Certificate in Fashion Design- 1 Year
4. Fashion Draping- 2 Months
5. Fashion Illustration & Design- 3 Months
6. Pattern Making & Garment construction- 2 Months
Vocational programme:
3 Year course
Top colleges for Fashion designing programmes are:
National Institute of Fashion Technology(NIFT),Delhi
Lovely Professional University,Jalandhar
Symbiosis Institute of Design, Pune
Pearl Academy,Delhi
The admission process is generally an entrance exam that includes a written test,a situation test,group discussion and an Interview.
There are various career prospects like a professional fashion designer,Merchandising,Technical designer,Apparel production manager ,Quality control manager ,Fashion writer ,Fashion photographer,Fashion Illustrator,Fashion Stylist,Merchandising.
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