Fashion Designer

Fashion designing, one of the most emerging careers in today’s world and mostly youngsters are taking keen part in this field. Youngsters with their broad mind and vast thinking are providing a fashion statement by creating their own styles and hence setting a new trend every time in the market. This field of fashion designing just not only gives the opportunity to meet the celebrities but also provides a platform to the young minds to express their views and to create a new sense of style. Fashion designers can go alone. Various persons are also involved from sewing the clothes to the marketing of the clothes. The new designs are promoted by organizing ramp shows.

In India the fashion trend is becoming a social issue. The fashion designers have covered the whole Indian market. Their excellent skills along with traditional fabrics and lively textures had made them the leading designers of the world.

Now let us consider what kind of work is done by a fashion designer?

1. A fashion designer creates designs for the garments of men, children and women.
2.  By understanding the needs and demands of their clients they had to design attractive and traditional clothing which suits the client in all aspects including color, size, style and material.
3. Once the deal is finalized between the client and designer then the sketching of garments is done. Only when this rough model sample is accepted only then the designer goes for the final fabric.
4. Much time had to be spent in exploring the needs of the consumer and lots of research has to be done for finalizing the fabric, design, color, material. Also new going trends have to be kept in mind.

Main qualities of fashion designers are: -

1. His thoughts and ideas should be carefully and neatly expressed in his sketches.
2. A designer must have the good ability to make color combinations and shades.
3. He should be totally aware of the latest ongoing fashion trends.
4. To widen his perception a designer must read fashion journals and books. Fashion designers must attend various events and art exhibition to have the knowledge of traditional art.
5. He should know the basic sills w
6. He should be artistic and should have a creative mind.
7. hich include sewing and cutting. Also must have the sound knowledge of good fabric.
8. Good interaction must be made between client and designer. For this a fashion designer must be a good communicator and must be able to express his thoughts and creative ideas.

Some of the colleges and institutes which are generating the budding fashion designers are: -

NAME OF THE COLLEGE/INSTITUTE	CORRESPONDING ADDRESS
National Institute of Fashion Technology Pearl Academy of Fashion National Institute of Design J D Institute of Fashion Design y.m.c.a. new delhi	NIFT Campus, Hauz Khas, Delhi-210016 C-56/2.Okhla,Phase II, Delhi-210020 Paldi, Ahmedabad-380007 D-247, Savitri Path, Bapu Nagar, Jaipur jai singh road,near bangla sahab gurudwara

Main areas of fashion designing include: -

• Handling Designing department
• Marketing and promoting
• Controlling Manufacturing department
• Working as a fashion coordinator.

Here’s a brief look at some of their profiles.

Famous Indian Fashion designers
 
Ritu Kumar
She started out small and long ago with a small group of block print artisans in the hinterlands of Kolkata. She redefined the meaning of fashion and began when this field was nascent. With an expertise in art history and museology she has magically fused the realms of modern with the contemporary and is popular for her traditional designs used in classic manner. Today she has about 12 of her own retail boutiques with a high range of silk, cotton and leather designs under the sub-brand LABEL.
 
Aki Narula
One of the premier fashion designers, he is a proud winner of the Damania Fashion Designer Award. His collections are available in most designer shops including Ensemble, Melange, Efolio etc. One f his USPs is his extreme comfort levels in designing for both men as well as women.
 
Hemant Trivedi
Equipped with a qualification from the Australian Technical Institute of Fashion Design, Hemant Trivedi today has made a name for himself through the beauty pageants for whose contenders he has designed the dresses. He has achieved immense success as the likes of Aishwarya Rai and Diana Hayden have donned his designs during their golden days

The modern Bollywood actresses and models have transformed themselves into Cinderellas as the doyen of contemporary fashion, Manish Malhotra has literally evolved the flashy and gaudy filmily dressed actors and actresses into suave and hot-looking chicks. Awarded with a Filmfare in costume designing, he has surely made a mark for himself in the glitzy fashion capital.

These are a few of the famous fashion designers who have worked their way to the top. Most of them also have their own designer labels and exclusive boutiques such as Manish Arora, Ritu Beri, Salim Asgarally, Anita Dongre, JJ Vallaya’s ‘LIFE’ etc. Many of them design for local, national and international retail brands like Roopam, Harrods etc.

To become a famous fashion designer, one does not necessarily need to be ‘well-connected’ as they say. With sheer hard work, talent, a great aesthetic sense, ability to sense fashion and new trends etc. are more than enough to make a mark in the industry despite competition.

Today there are several fashion shows on both national and international levels organised by different fashion houses or authorities like Fashion design Council that render a platform to aspiring fashion professionals.

The IMG led Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week and the Lakme Fashion Show are some of ‘the’ properties to be in if one needs to be showcased and get there.

All in all, fashion designing has got an impetus and the need for famous fashion designers has expanded.