PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME INFASHION DESIGN
Our industry-focused Fashion Design programme emphasises comprehensive project-based learning, covering research, design development, pattern-making, and production techniques, as well as marketing and merchandising strategies. Students cultivate a heightened appreciation for design and refine their fashion aesthetics while nurturing their unique creative abilities. Through industry exposure, students gain a competitive edge, enhancing their creative thinking, ideation clarity, and presentation skills. Encouraged to cultivate their personal style, students learn to make a distinctive fashion statement. They acquire the confidence and expertise to conceptualise, design, produce, and showcase their collections.
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FOUNDATIONS OF FASHION DESIGN
- Drawing and Geometry
- Basic design elements, principles of design and colour theory
- Fashion model drawing and illustration
- Design Project: Theme concept mood board
- Basic pattern making
- Basic garment construction
- History of art and design: Indian and Western
- Computers
- Introduction to embroideries: Basic embroidery and Indian embroidery
- Textile Science 1: Fiber to fabric
ADVANCED DESIGN AND TEXTILES
- Basic Design - 2
- Design Principles - II
- Basic draping - Draping skirt and bodice
- Design Project I - (Skirt): Research, design development, theme concept mood board, pattern making and garment construction
- Design Project II - (Dress): Research, design development, theme concept mood board, pattern making and garment construction
- History of textiles: Indian and Western
- Fashion marketing
- Fashion forecasting - Market research
- Textile Science 2: Dyeing and printing
PROFESSIONAL PORTFOLIO AND PRODUCTION
- Design Project: Draping - Draped Dress
- Design Project III - (Evening Wear): Research, design development, theme concept mood board, pattern making and garment construction
- Design Project IV - (Ethnic Wear): Research, design development, theme concept mood board, pattern making and garment construction
- CAD/CAM for Fashion and Textiles - Industry Software (Optitex / ReachCAD)
- Fashion Merchandising
- Managing export import business
- Manufacturing methods and processes, and quality control
- Portfolio development
- Project Styling: Films and advertisement
- Textile: Product development
- Fashion photography
- Fashion accessories
- Design Project V - (Final Collection): Research, design development, theme concept mood board, pattern making and garment construction
- Digital portfolio
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Student Profile
This course enables students to be professional fashion designers and work in the apparel industry, export houses, garment manufacturing, fashion retail stores, online fashion businesses, bloggers, and stylists in the media and film industry. As an entrepreneur, students learn how to launch their brand and open a boutique or fashion store.