Fashion Technology – The big Indian fashion dream
India is a land of dream for all fashion designers due to the sheer variety and availability of different types of material from traditional silk to ikats to jamawars and handlooms in vibrant weavers and dyes. With the Indian fashion conquering the world fashion arena with names like Ritu Kumar, Rohit Bal, Sunit Verma, Tarun Tahiliani there is no looking back of the Indian fashion is the world arena. In is a fact that Indian textiles and garments has been always in the limelight and with the changing prospective of this industry, there is a lot of innovation in garments and the accessory designs that’s happening. Due to this a lot of specialization is required with more concern there is a lot of scope that have been unleashed in the field of fashion technology.
The area a vast spectrum of activities in fashion technology dealing with the design, conceptualizing the whole idea, production management that is required, the quality control prospective, the planning, the printing, the fashion merchandising, the color mixing , the nature of textile to be used and the marketing of the product.
Are you creative enough?
Can you emanate style in whatever you do? Do you have the talent to showcase originality and have creative pursuit to make people look good? If so, a career in fashion technology is the career path for you. A fashion technology person needs to play with colors, shades and different textures with innovative ideas through drawing and sketches. You should possess the capacity to visualize new designs, the patterns of the garment to be worn matching them with accessories. The person should literary enjoy working with various fabrics and accessories. So if you have the power of all these qualities with no hesitation you can jump into the arena of fashion technology.
Prospects are huge
Fashion Technology provides you with an upper hand knowledge and experience on apparel manufacturing technology. It is a true introduction to obtain a theoretical, practical and the industry exposure. Fashion houses and garment manufacturing units are in need of candidates like you and you are expected to get job offers as Production Managers or assistant production managers in these manufacturing units.
Getting placed is no big deal after successful completion of the course. Excellent placement lies ahead of you in the garment, leather sector and the jewellery industry. You can get your hands to become a merchandising executive, or a fashion designer or illustrators or be a fashion co-ordinator. There are export houses, textile mills, various reputed garment stores, boutiques, and leather manufactures, jewelry manufactures and retailers and also fashion show organizers are in a constant look for the creative guys like you.
The salary is not in a higher scale in the initial stages but as you gain experience working with different projects your pay is on a upward rise. As a trainee designer at a very start a stipend of around Rs.10,000 is allotted to you. After acquiring the working knowledge a person can look forward to getting Rs.30,000- Rs.40,0000 on a monthly basis. And if you are able to get yourself trained under a umbrella of a reputed designer, there is no looking back in your career
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