It’s a myth that fashion designing simply means cloth designing but in real Fashion Designing offers numerous designing courses. The fashion designing courses includes Graduate, Post graduate, Certificate and Diploma courses in the following fields:
- Cloth designing
- Shoes designing
- Accessories designing
- Leather and garment designing
- Fabric designing and many more
Different Fashion designing Institutions have following fields to offer:
1. Clothing designers :
Clothing designer is the most common Field in fashion designing . The Cloth designers Design, create and produce men’s apparel , women’s apparel and children’s apparel, which includes casual wears, formal wears, suits, sportswear, evening wear, maternity clothing, bridal wear and intimate apparel.
Their major task is to generate an idea in mind, sketch them out and bring them in reality by designing them.
2. Footwear designers:
This is the second most demanded branch of Fashion Design . The demand of footwear designer has increased in recent years. By graduating or post graduating in footwear design designers can easily get a job of shoes designer in big firms like Puma, Reebok, Adidas, Nike, Bata, woodland etc.
They create and produce different styles of shoes and boots. They also design new shoes with new materials, such as lightweight synthetic materials used in shoe soles which makes them very comfortable. Thus, footwear designers produce new designs that combines with comfort, style and durability.
3. Accessory designers :
In this field of fashion designing you are trained to design different accessories like :
- Handbags
- Belts
- Scarves
- Suitcases
- Hats
- Innerwears
- Watches
- Eyewear etc
4. Costume designers;
Costume designer Design the costumes for theaters , Tv serials etc. They do a deep research on style and trends and design the outfits according to that. Depending of the scene and nature of character they design the outfits to be worn during the period in which the performance takes place, or they also work with directors to select and create appropriate attire for the characters. They also must stay within the costume budget for the particular production.
5. Fabric designers:
Fabric designers do a deep research on different type of fabrics and learn about their speciality and origin. With this they are also trained to design the different fabrics. The demand of this field is also increasing with time.
So before joining Any Fashion Designing Institutes try to be clear with the above mentioned fields and decide your interest area.
