“Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.”– Coco Chanel
Fashion Designing is considered one of the most booming vocational education streams not only in India but abroad as well. It is one of the most creative courses and the best career option. This is primarily because the Fashion Industry has grown up by leaps and bounds within a decade.
Fashion Designing Course Details
Fashion Designing courses after 12th Standard are designed according to the uniqueness, experiences of creativity and with the approach of taking this career ahead. Full time fashion design courses offered at the undergraduate level are usually of three to four years in duration.
Aspirants can pursue Fashion Design as a course at the undergraduate or even at the postgraduate level. Apart from this, aspirants can even pursue short – term Diploma or Certificates programmes in the field of fashion design. There are best fashion designing coaching institutes in Patna that helps candidates in preparing for their NIFT/NID/UCEED exams.

Eligibility for Fashion Design Courses:
The minimum and basic eligibility criteria for fashion design courses are 10+2 for bachelor of degree courses with minimum 50% marks. Admission criteria will be strictly based on merit via written test, group discussion and personal interview. Aspirants who have cleared their class 12th from any stream (Science/ Commerce/Arts) can pursue a fashion designing course at the graduate level.
The duration of this course is generally 4 years. The curriculum is divided into 8 semesters. However some institutes offer Bachelor of fashion design courses with a duration of 3 years.There is an option of Diploma in fashion designing courses too with complete duration of 1 year and minimum eligibility is 10th pass from a recognised board in India with minimum percentage of 45%. For this course average fee incurred INR 1,00, 000 per annum.
NIFT, Pearl Academy, JD Institute of Fashion Design etc.offer some of the best diploma courses in fashion designing that every fashion aspirant dream of going in.
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Fashion Design Courses are Divided into UG, PG and Diploma:
PG Courses are generally for 2 years which is streamlined with fundamental and technical knowledge of tailoring, sewing and basic fashion theory. (This varies from course to course). Bachelor degree program is for 4 years and the basic course of fashion designing in the first year is the time when students will learn technical, artistic and conceptual skills.
Admission Process for Fashion Design Courses:
There is an entrance exam for this course after 12th, NIFT entrance exam by (National Institute of Fashion Design) and NID entrance exam by (National Institute of Design). After cracking these entrance exams, an aspirant becomes accessible to take admission in these top design colleges of India.
Some other popular entrance exams like AIEED, UCEED, CEED, FDDI etc. are also conducted to grant admission to the design courses.
Secondly, Interview and GD (Group Discussion) are equally important to get admission in designing courses. In GD, there will be 5-6 candidates at a time and you will be given a topic to present your views and discuss on the topic.
Based on these three parameters the students are granted admission in the design colleges. Once you are in the institution, the student is exposed to the world of fashion technology and concepts.