Costume Designing and Interior Designing have become more popular nowadays. Before students could complete their Higher Secondary, they undergo career guidance courses which give them clarity to identify what is their niche. When it comes to pursuing a degree it is always good to do a course which matches with one’s innate talents and has job opportunities.
One such course is fashion and interior designing which is lucrative and the most opted. This course is designed in such a way it is inbuilt with lot of practical sessions.
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Fashion designers create clothing, accessories, and footwear; whereas interior designers make interior spaces look aesthetic, safe, and functional. One who is innovative, has flair for glamour, and good imagination can pursue fashion and interior design technology. Fashion design course includes CAD, pattern making, draping, haute couture, sewing, and production.
Basic and advanced concepts of drawing, materials used in interior elements, to create digital drawings and interior floor plans using CAD, 3 D software usage to complete interior designs includes interior design curriculum.
Admission Process And Eligibility Criteria
Aspirants who passed 10+2 exams from any stream (commerce, arts, science) are eligible for a fashion and interior design degree or diploma course. To do post-graduation fashion and interior design graduates are preferable, and aspirants from other streams may apply too. Most of the colleges require the candidates to clear national level entrance examination or their own entrance level exam followed by personal interview.
Few of the common entrance examinations are:
- Design Aptitude Test (DAT)
- All India Entrance Examination For Design (AIEED)
- National Institute of Fashion Design (NIFT)
- School Of Fashion Technology (SOFT)
- Indian Institute Of Art And Design ((AIID)
Infrastructure And Facilities Available
Many fashion and interior design colleges are there in India which are in collaboration with international institutes in order to offer quality education for their students. Courses are offered in different category; Diploma, Degree, Post graduation, Graduate Diploma, and Post graduate diploma. The duration of each course differs; starting from one to four years.
Fashion and design colleges have good infrastructure, well equipped computerised labs with AC , Auditoriums, conference halls, good transport and canteen facilities.
Job Opportunities
100 percent placements are provided by almost all the colleges. The package varies from 2.5 lakhs to 3 lakhs per annum. Their job titles includes apparel manufacturer, costume and accessory designer, professor, set designer, 3D modeller, interior designer and interior decorator, and more.
