As the world grows into a global village, the incomes all across the segments increases and a large number of people come into the middle-class bracket, this has increased the need of people to be more and more fashionable. This increased scope of creative careers in the field of fashion. Which in turn increased the scope of its training, courses, and institutions. Fashion technology courses are aimed to suit the needs of the students who aspire to be future designers, merchandisers, and entrepreneurs. Developing designing and form generation skills of students is an important focus area throughout the duration of the programme. These programs aim at educating the students on all facets that make up this growing industry, through workshops/ seminars, market research, Industry visits & craft documentation.
The main areas studied and various skills imparted to students are:
Basic sketching skills. Fashion drawing, Apparel manufacturing process. Fundamentals of Textile Science, Technical design development using
Graphic tools like Adobe Photoshop, Core Draw, Adobe illustrator, Macro media Flash, and CAD/CAM. Fashion accessories (Costume Jewellery, Bags, Hats, etc. ).
Some MUST-HAVES for a good programme are:
Availability of international forecast WGSN for trend forecasting. The latest machinery & soft wares to keep students at the cutting edge of technology. The various programs of the dept. Are supported by materials like books of various international publishers, state of the art labs and design studios. The emphasis is on self-motivated learning by using creativity, exploring techniques & innovating new applications in fashion. In B. Design (Fashion) the students are provided with an opportunity to showcase their design collection through an Annual fashion shows and festivals
The career prospects in Fashion technology:
Merchandiser in Export/ Buying houses (The link between buyer-seller). Visual Merchandiser (Creation & execution of Shop-window display). Apparel production manager. Fashion retail store Manager, Fashion designers (B. Design has brighter probabilities to pursue as freelance or self-employed designers), Sales executive/Fashion Consultant
Lovely Professional University is doing pioneering work in all this, it has invested a lot in quantitative and qualitative parameters discussed in must-haves above. So, give a direction to your career.
