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Top Fashion Designing Colleges in India

A career in fashion design surely sounds good, doesn’t it? There are few other career options that would let you explore as much with creativity as this one. There are no rules to limit you; there are no barriers that would prevent you from taking an entrepreneurial role. It isn’t surprising that thousands of youngsters join fashion designing courses every year. However, you must be careful when it comes to choosing a college as not every institution will offer you the same kind of knowledge and training as far as these courses are concerned. Here we list the top fashion designing colleges in India that can add wings to your career –

  • National Institute of Fashion Technology, New Delhi – It is one of the oldest and surely the first-choice among government fashion designing colleges in the country. There are several UG, PG and short-term courses being offered at this institution and the kind of hands-on training offered makes them popular among the students.
  • International College of Fashion – Based in Delhi it is one of the top colleges for fashion designing in the country. Boasting of a seasoned faculty team ICF offers a wide choice of short and long term courses that are in sync with the development in the industry. Apart from designing their course programs also focus on marketing and entrepreneurship which are as important in this industry.
  • National Institute of Fashion Technology, Mumbai – Like its cousin it Delhi the one in India’s tinsel town has established itself as one of the premier institutions for fashion studies in India. It offers several under-graduate, post-graduate and continuing education programs and offers great exposure to its students.
  • Pearl Academy, Delhi – Since its establishment in 1993 it has slowly risen up in the ranks to be ranked as one of the top fashion designing college in country which is known for offering several courses at Under Graduate level and Post Graduate levels to its students. The institution is known to offer hands-on training to its students.
  • Amity School of Fashion Technology, Noida – Part of the Amity University this institute has gained immense popularity in the recent years offering great placements to its students and exposure to the industry.

To conclude the choice of a fashion designing college would determine the success in your career. If you are able to make it to one of these institutes you will sow the perfect seeds for your career.

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The Best Institute for Fashion Designing

When it comes to choosing an institute for fashion designing there are two things that every aspirant must focus on. The first is of course the obvious – the institute should harness your creativity and offer you exposure that will help you grow your ideas. At International College of Fashion (ICF) we create the most conducive environment for you to express your creativity and fine tune it for the competitive market outside. What separates us from other institutes is ‘second’ thing that we inculcate in every student i.e. in-depth understanding of the business side or economics of this industry.

If you take a close look at our course program and compare with some of the other colleges for fashion designing in India you’d see that we have created the perfect balance between designing and business side of the industry. As you’d already know without in-depth knowledge in either of these you won’t be able to achieve success in this career path. With competition having grown at a tremendous pace over the last decade or so with the entry of several foreign brands and labels into the Indian market your success is often determined by how well you understand the business of fashion.

Develop skills to meet competition
Our core aim has always been to develop the right kind of skills in our students to help them face competition that one is expected to find in the industry. From spotting the trends to developing problem solving skills we focus on overall skill development for our students.

Fostering innovation… 
While every fashion designing college claims of boosting your creativity and innovation the truth is they tie you up with a fixed course curriculum. This is where we offer great room for flexibility in our course program to help you shape the dreams that you bring along and add bigger wings to them.

A step into global world of fashion…
We are an Indian fashion designing college with a global frame of mind. Our aim isn’t merely to help our students find employment in India or start with their entrepreneurial venture but also to make sure they have one foot into the global fashion business. Many of our students have moved abroad and have been able to establish their footprint in this industry.

Come and join us. We shall lay the perfect platform for your success in this competitive industry and write the first chapter in your career’s success.

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The Best College to Start Your Career in Fashion Designing

There is something about the fashion industry that separates it from all others and it is your ability to express your creativity in true sense. There is no other career path that would allow you to lead a creative live day in and day out. But where creativity meets strong business acumen you can expect to see great competition. Naturally you will have to build strong foundations for your career and need to choose the best college in the country. If you are looking for one in Delhi, International College of Fashion (ICF) would be a good choice. It is the first choice among several students and has over the years we have helped our students succeed.

Why Join Us?

  • Because we are part of the evolution – The fashion industry is in a constant churn. It is not only the styles and designs that change but also how a product is sold in the market. As one of the premier institute of fashion designing and entrepreneurship we are part of this evolution. Our courses are prepared by leading names in the fashion industry and it undergoes regular change to keep you updated on the latest trends in the industry.
  • Because we give you the exposure you need – You won’t become a successful designer or an entrepreneur merely completing your course work and reading case studies. This is one career option where you need to gain hands-on training. You need to undertake real assignments to polish your skills and rise above competition. By inviting leading designers to interact with you and offering you the desired internship opportunities we at International College of Fashion provide you the exposure you are looking for.
  • Because we prepare you for the challenges – If you thought fashion industry was all about glitz and glamour, you are wrong. It is one of the toughest career options that you have selected but at the same time it is also very rewarding. This is where we prepare you for all the challenges that you are likely to come across in your career. From helping you find the best placements to letting you see the challenges from up close we do everything it takes to make you succeed in this industry.

Your dream to make a mark in the fashion industry is all set to begin. Come onboard and it will be one of the best decisions you will ever take in your life.

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IT’S JOURNAL THING!!!

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People belonging to ‘art world’ like doodlers, designers, artists, etc. have their own dimensions yet have so many similarities. These people have the abilities to mold themselves in any situation and they can express it in a tangible form. Creating a journal for everything makes them a ‘tourist’ as they create reminiscences and then note them as memories. These memories always have some thought and a spirit to get remembered. For a designer, journals are their printed sheets and their eyes are their cameras with their minds as the printers.

journal2A to-do list is always there to get filled. To make reports, create forecasts, designs, a collection, a doodle art, a landscape or portrait art, a journal is always present there to join all the points with each other and then come up with something new and original. This originality defines an individual’s thoughts and his work. A self-made, self-believed thing has got a more powerful spirit than the captured and printed one. The cycle always runs alike, somewhere somehow it is not highlighted much to create a journal in the fashion industry but you need to collect all of it what you have got because that’s how successful ones have worked.

journal3It could be anything as it’s said it is a Journal thing! To match all the points, link them and create something different from everything is the daily task for every creative person out here. People are journalizing everywhere every second to create a trend report for others.

journal4That is why it is all observed and processed every time to run the fashion world because it can trickle up or trickle down the story anytime.

For a designer, it’s a die-hard thing not maintaining a journal and to gather all research creatively in just one scarp book. Every scrap out there has some emotion, research, thought, idea and knowledge with a beautiful story behind it and only a journal can spell it out loud.

Whether it’s a doodler, graphic artists or someone else journal teaches the following to them:
-fonts
-arrangements
-to express
-to compile
-to place
-to clear everything out
-to create
-and always to get to the result!

Shubhi Goel

BBA-FE(2017-20)

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Short term courses in fashion designing

Short term Courses in Fashion Designing

If you are in the fashion industry you’d be aware of the pace at which this industry undergoes change. It thus becomes important for you to stay updated with the latest changes that are taking place. This is where joining short term courses in fashion designing will help you ride over competition.

We at International College of Fashion (ICF) have been at the forefront of fashion designing and entrepreneurship in India and bring to you courses that help you build strengths and competitive edge in this fast changing industry. Here are some of the benefits of enrolling into our short term fashion designing Course:

Benefits of  courses in fashion designing

They are convenient:

Short term courses are popular as they are very convenient. You don’t have to invest lot of money to join these courses and neither quit your regular job. Few weeks of break from your regular life is all that’s required to learn about the new things in the industry and acquire skills that would help you push your career forward.

They refresh your knowledge:

You will need to constantly update your skills and knowledge to stay ahead of the curve in the industry. You may have been employed with a big fashion label or running your own business but you need to constantly acquire new knowledge on a constant basis and this is where these courses help you.

They offer specialized training

If you are into merchandising you may wish to learn only about this and not spend your time leaning about other concepts in fashion designing. This is where these courses by helping you acquire specialized skills.

They offer insight into upcoming trends

Success is the fashion industry belongs to those who are aware of the upcoming trends in the market. How do you spot for these trends? How do you filter out the dozens of signs and signals that you come across in the market.

They prepare you for challenges

As with any business that is undergoing constant change there are also new challenges that emerge. What worked for your business or career in the past may not work in the future. To survive in this market you will need to know about these challenges beforehand and deal with them.

By joining our short term courses in fashion designing you will lend a new dimension to your career. You must bear in mind that in this industry things around you are constantly changing and you need to keep these things in mind and choose a short term.

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Retail Analysis of Party Denim: Men & Young Men 2019

For men both young and those in their teens, denims are the backbone of their wardrobe. Talk of party wear and few men can think anything other than wearing denims. For the uninformed men’s denims might look all the same. This notion isn’t fully misplaced though as all you see is variations of blue all around. But as someone in the fashion industry you can’t think like the ordinary and need to gain insights into the retail industry. After all the popularity of styles in the retail market is what matters in a competitive business like fashion. So what is selling in the retail market this season? What are the latest trends in party denim for men and young men in 2019? Let’s find out –

  • The 90’s Grey Wash – If you are millennial you’d probably not know this. But nineties was all about grey wash denims. While they never really went out of fashion they lied low for decades. But 2019 has seen a grand comeback of this trend. Retailers across the world are reporting increased demand for this style. And talk of the favorite cut – the classic looser fit seems to be making buzz in the market.
  • Double Denim – You’d probably think this has passed its expiry date but like many other denim styles it is making a strong comeback. People are picking denim shirts and jackets and wearing them all over again. What’s changed though is that men no longer stick only to the blue and black shades but are trying out different colors at will.
  • White Denims – A decade or two back few people could have imagined men wearing white denims. Well it was a style for the fairer sex and surely a no-go territory for the men in the past. But not anymore if signals from the retail business is anything to go by whites are trending in the market and people are increasingly going for them.
  • Distressed Denims – Purist never like these but if you ask the teenagers they would spend anything to buy these distressed wears. This trend has been in the market for quite many years and if sales figure from the retail market is anything to go by these definitely sell like hot cakes or rather the drinks at any bar!

If you are in the business of designing denims or selling them you got to embrace these trends because the retailers and going gaga over the business these trends are generating.

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Partners in Crime

It’s time to stop overbuying and instead choose stuff you love, and invest in it. We believe there is a better way.

partners in crimeThis time it’s an alert for shopaholics! Where we girls spend so much to buy our clothes now there is a better way to do the wardrobe makeover. Partners in Crime(P.i.C) style is a place where you can recreate your outfit by just having some of them. These people has emerged with a thought and applied it as well in a very appropriate manner.

P.i.C Style was born out of an obsession to do fashion in the right manner. Simply put, people want to know where their clothes come from and who makes them. As they say,

‘Buying with us gives you more. Our P.i.C collection is rotatable and interchangeable, giving you more flexibility than a lifetime of downward dogs. You can create over 50 clean looks from just eight beautiful pieces.’

We people always think to mix and match but at last it just end up with our general taste and does not look that much appealing or different but according to P.i.C style we can create 50 looks from just eight pieces.

“WE ALL NEED TO CARE FOR THIS PLANET.

BUT NOT IT’S POSSIBLE TO CARE AND LOOK CHIC”

It’s always hard to balance things like- to spend or to save or to get better in less, to be different in the same. All these things just create a fact in our mind to let go off the things but now it’s possible to care yet look elegant by spending less but getting more. Even if you people are not able to buy stuff, there are plenty of videos available of various tutorials to create new styles.

Join us. Rebel.
Be part of the slow fashion revolution.

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P.i.C style travelled around the word to explore more and find out the people that match there ethos after starting their setup in London. The partners they have with them are- MVDT, Mud Jeans, SUITE 13, MIRABELLE and more. Together these all creates a family to save the planet by keeping fashion in mind.

The category named ‘Capsule Wardrobe’ have the styles and their different ways to put on so if you guys ever wish to spend less yet want more, just roll over the website and see how creatively it is possible in fashion world to roll with few outfits.

FASHION FOR THE FUTURE

Simran Dhingra

BBA-FE (2017-2020)

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SUSTAINABILITY THIS TIME

The fashion industry today is a multi billion dollar business which is affecting everyone around the world in some way!

Fashion is the second most polluting industry in the world, following right after oil. Due to speedy production and over consumption, the fashion industry has landed itself on an environmentally damaging path, much different than 100 years ago. It was not until fast fashion took over our closets, that the real numbers started to show. In today’s world sustainability is a very important factor to focus on as the fashion industry is growing day by day.

Many organizations are working in the favor to promote sustainability. One such great example is PETA! PETA focuses its attention on the four areas in which the largest numbers of animals suffer the most intensely for the longest periods of time: in laboratories, in the food industry, in the clothing trade, and in the entertainment industry. We also work on a variety of other issues, including the cruel killing of rodents, birds, and other animals who are often considered “pests” as well as cruelty to domesticated animals.

Every year, millions of animals are killed for the clothing industry—all in the name of fashion. Whether the clothes come from Chinese fur farms, Indian slaughterhouses, or the Australian outback, an immeasurable amount of suffering goes into every fur-trimmed jacket, leather belt, and wool sweater.

This tells clearly that we are heading to wear the living ones after killing them, just to wear! No one will get agree that we all are involved in killings just to look nice and different.

In the year 2018, people took a step towards getting vegan moreover to promote and get awareness of sustainability. Organizations like Arture, which is vegan fashion accessories brand, are in the running to make this world sustainable by using materials like 100 per cent Mediterranean-derived natural cork fabric, which is sustainable and cruelty-free, to design sleek wallets, handbags and travel accessories for women and men.

It’s very harsh to listen and see that just to look good, people do killings; to obtain materials in this fashion industry, they do not care of lives. But on the other side it’s true that people are working over it as well. We should keep in mind the following things at the time of starting over a garment-

  • Think of organic fabrics
  • Ignore fabrics like fur, pure wool and more
  • Try to design the garments which do not include animal skins
  • Think and look twice for the fabrics and it’s blends
  • Last but not the least,

Love animals with the real smile not the greedy smile!!!

love-animal

Shubhi Goel

BBA-FE(2017-20)

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How to Choose a Fashion Designing College?

If you have set your eyes on a career in fashion designing your first aim should be to choose the right college for the course. Like all other courses that require hands-on training the choice of the college can determine your success (or failure). With so many colleges out there it isn’t the easiest of things to decide upon. Here we shall take a look at few things you should bear in mind when it comes to choosing a fashion designing college –

  • Location – You aren’t taking up a course in English literature but one where location of your college would have a very important role to play. If you join a college in Delhi you will have more exposure with the industry than studying in a college in the hinterland. Colleges in Delhi and Mumbai bring in people from the industry to share their experience with the students. This opens your eyes to the challenges and opportunities in the industry.
  • Course Program – This is the most important thing that you need to take note of while choosing a college. The course program should cover all major aspects of the industry from designing to promoting the products. The best fashion designing colleges keep updating their courses to keep it in sync with the changes in the industry. They also offer you a choice between short-term and long-term courses.
  • Internships – Internships are a crucial part of any fashion designing course. In fact you will learn as much during your internship as you will during your course work. Which brands and labels are the current students in the institute interning with? How many of these internships have turned into actual placements? You need to figure out all that before you choose a college.
  • Placements – Last but not the least you need to take note of the placement record that the institute has. Even if you wish to tread the entrepreneurial role in future you shouldn’t ignore this fact. Good placement record is a testimony to the quality of education and training that a fashion designing college offers. Don’t just look at the numbers but take note of the fashion labels and brands that have recruited in the past from the college.

When you keep these things in mind you will be able to choose the right fashion designing college and prepare yourself for the challenges and opportunities that lay ahead of you in this glamorous industry.

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5 Skills Required for a Fashion Designer

If you have always aspired to be a fashion designer or one who is seriously giving this career option a thought, you must keep in mind that it isn’t a career for everyone. If you don’t bring in the right skills to the table you aren’t likely to find your way into the top colleges for fashion designing. No matter how closely you follow this industry or how passionate you are, you need to have these five skills to become a fashion designer –

  1. Creativity – If ‘creativity’ as a word has never been associated with you, you should give the idea of becoming a fashion designer a second thought. Without creativity you won’t go anywhere. From how you dress to how you can make use of pen and paper you need to have creative skills. It is like knowing math for an engineer or human anatomy for a doctor.
  2. Eye for detail – As a fashion designer every day is a learning opportunity. From visiting a museum looking at royal attire of the past to watching the latest Hollywood flick you should be able to study the finer points of a design and be able to recall when you need it.
  3. Visualization – Whether it is understanding clients’ demand or planning a design in your mind you need to have strong visualization skills. You need to see things before you show it to others. Strong visualization skills will help you imagine what will work and what won’t beforehand and help you take the right course of action when it comes to designing a clothing or accessory.
  4. Drawing Skills – You don’t have to draw a Mona Lisa but at the same time you can’t be a complete mug as far as drawing skills are concerned. While computer tools are pretty common you still need to have good drawing skills to put your idea into a piece of paper anytime and anywhere.
  5. Logic & Numbers – People often think of fashion as being an expression of creativity. But if you are poor with numbers or logic you aren’t likely to succeed. It is important to be good in fundamentally playing with numbers and secondly having business acumen at the start of the course will keep you ahead of the curve.

If you have these skills in you, it is time for you to search for the top colleges for fashion designing and get your career in this industry rolling.

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