Department of Fashion Design endeavours to create a new generation of creative, highly skilled designers, and entrepreneurs, who are able to understand the demands of the local and international markets. The programmes focuses on developing skills, progress of individual creativity, learning about tends & forecast, and exploring new methods and techniques of creating fashion.
Fashion Design programme at PIFD has a history of success and an exceptional reputation for producing fashion graduates for their creativity, originality, versatility, and professional skills. This programme was developed in affiliation with Ecole de La Chambre Syndicale de La Couture Parisienne, France. Our aim is to educate students who are globally-competitive by gaining skill & training through comprehensive design education to lead the creative industry with socially conscious solutions, innovations and entrepreneurial drive.
Students are selected for two weeks training at Institut Français de la Mode, previously training were conducted by Ecole de La Chambre Syndicale de La Couture Parisienne, France. In Paris, students are engaged in intensive training of Fashion Design and Draping project conducted by senior faculty of IFM. Certificates are awarded after successful completion.
At PIFD students gain the understanding of fashion design process through theory and studio practice courses. Students are encouraged to develop individual creative abilities and own personal design philosophy & identity which is reflected in final year collection along with fashion design portfolio and textile design portfolio.The scope of the fashion design programme is to prepare the students to work as creative heads in design houses and enterprises of the fashion and apparel industry, as well as resource persons in academia. It strongly cultivates the entrepreneurial skills amongst students to start their businesses for a global consumer:
The Fashion Design programme endeavors to create a new generation of creative and highly skilled designers and entrepreneurs who are able to understand the demands of the local and international markets.The programme focuses on developing skills, progress of individual creativity, learning about trends & forecast and exploring new methods & techniques of creating fashion design.
| Semester III and IV | ||
|---|---|---|
| Course Title | ||
| Fashion Design-I (Research-based Studio Practice) | ||
| History of Costume and Fashion-1 | ||
| Fashion and Digital Mediums-I | ||
| Creative Studio-I (Draping) | ||
| English-III (Expository Writing) | ||
| Technical Studio-I (Pattern) | ||
| Materials Exploration and Textile Design | ||
| Fashion Silhouette, Vocabulary & Detail | ||
| Technique-II (Sewing) | ||
| Fashion Design-II (Research-based Studio Practice) | ||
| History of Costume and Fashion-II | ||
| Fashion and Digital Mediums-II | ||
| Creative Studio-II (Draping) | ||
| Technical Studio-II (Pattern & Sewing) | ||
| Textile Design - Surface Design & Development | ||
| French-l | ||
| Entrepreneurship | ||
| Civics and Community Engagement | ||
| Semester V and VI | ||
|---|---|---|
| Course Title | ||
| Fashion Design - III (Research-based Studio Practice) | ||
| History of Costume and Fashion-III (Western) | ||
| Fashion and Digital Mediums-III | ||
| Creative Realization-I (Draping) | ||
| Technical Studio -III (Pattern & Sewing) | ||
| Textile Design & Experimentation | ||
| Fashion Management | ||
| French-II | ||
| Elective 1* | ||
| Elective 2* | ||
| Fashion Design-IV (Research-based Studio Practice) | ||
| History of Costume and Fashion-IV | ||
| Fashion and Digital Mediums-IV | ||
| Creative Realization-II (Draping) | ||
| Technical Studio -IV (Pattern & Sewing) | ||
| Textile Design and Processes | ||
| Sustainable Fashion | ||
| English-IV | ||
| French-III | ||
| Capstone Project (Entrep. Project & Presentation) | ||
| Semester VII and VIII | ||
|---|---|---|
| Course Title | ||
| Fashion Design -V (Research-based Studio Practice/ Thesis) | ||
| Creative Realization-III (Draping) | ||
| Pattern Making and Grading (Manual & Digital) | ||
| Textile Design -Experimentation & Innovation | ||
| Creative Development (Sewing) | ||
| Sustainable Solutions for Fashion | ||
| English-V | ||
| French-IV | ||
| Internship / Field Experience | ||
| Thesis: Design Studio-VI | ||
| Thesis: Creative & Technical Realization | ||
| Thesis: Textile Developments | ||
| Thesis: Product Execution | ||
| Thesis: Portfolio Development | ||
| English - Thesis Report | ||
