Fashion Design: The Career to be in

What is Fashion?

Fashion is generally anything that is a currently popular style or practice, especially in clothing, foot wear or accessories or thinking for that matter.

This page is meant to let you know about careers and courses in fashion design.

Clothes, Jewelry, Accessories and body adornments are forms of non-verbal communication- as also a means to indicate occupation, rank, gender, sexual availability, locality, class, wealth and group affiliation. Fashion is another expression of Free Speech (Even if don’t want to follow fashion, it is an expression).

What we wear and how and when we wear it, provides others with a shorthand to subtly read the surface of a social situation. Fashion today has become an important means of communicating ones image and plays a key role in supporting ones professional, personal and social lifestyles.

Fact File: The Textile and Apparel Industry

India is today recognized as one of the best sourcing destinations for garments, textiles, accessories and finish: it provides a perfect blend of fashion, designs, quality, patterns, textures, colors and finish. Manufacturers here are ready to innovate, be flexible on quantities, have a hands-on approach to quality control and keep the integrity on deadlines.

The industry proudly supports 7 million people as part of its workforce, and aims to double this figure by 2012-13; even today it is the second largest provider of employment in the country. For every INR 100,000 invested in the industry, an average of 7 additional jobs created.

The Apparel Sector alone contributes to 8% of India’s total exports with exports recording a 1% growth over last year. By the year 2011-12, India expects to record a 15% growth in quantity and 20% growth in values.