Institute of Fashion Designing in India

WLCI Fashion students participated in draping session on 28th April 2012 taken by Ms. Sumina Gupta in the campus. Drape is the way that fabric hangs. The process of draping involves sewing loosely hanging material to a garment to create a flowing look. Though it can make for a very dramatic effect when done properly, it does take skill and practice. Many designers choose to experiment with the way fabric hangs, but there are also objective ways to measure drape. This technique is commonly used in making dresses, but can also be used to make blouses, skirts, and pants.

Draping usually begins with a designer taking a basic garment and putting it on a dressmaker's model. The garment is generally already sewn into its core shape — for instance, a bias-cut dress would start out as a bias tube on the model. Next, the designer takes pieces of fabric and pins them to the garment where the drape is desired, which will give the final garment its shape. Most of the time the pinned fabric is not the same as the fabric that will be used for the final garment, but rather a similar cheaper fabric. This is because the fabric that's pinned on the dress will often be cut or marked on during the design process, which can be expensive with fine cloths.

The ever growing fashion industry

Fashion designing in the recent past has grown tremendously. It’s no more just only for high class people, rather people in day to day life have adopted fashion as part of their lifestyle. Earlier, where designer clothes were afforded by only rich people, now the situation has changed totally. Fashion designing has become an essential part of today’s culture and society. Everybody, despite of geo economical factors is influenced by fashion and has incorporated their life accordingly.

Fashion Designers now a day’s make lot of money through this profession. These designers first learn this art and polish their creativity by pursuing any integrated course from any university or school of fashion design. The fashion designing courses nurture the creative talent of young minds and employ them in the right direction. Now days, there are a lot of sub fields offered in this industry. It is not only the creative minds that can make career in this industry, whereas people interested in operational work can also enter this arena. To know more about this profession, you can check with different fashion schools like wlci and others. 

WLCI Fashion Testimonial

NAME: ADITI GUPTA

BATCH: 2009-2010

LEVEL: HCL-II

Fashion is important in life.I always wanted to be unique and wanted to explore my ideas in the world in Fashion.

 I choose fashion as my carrier option because I wanted to make myself irreplaceable in this world and prove.

It is a great and a beautiful time we spend in WLCI; got nice faculties, friends and lot of fun with studies... During the lectures waiting for a break to go to the canteen to get relax enjoy with friends… Submission days of each project were actually fun… spending time with faculties in the class solving everyone’s problems enjoying every moment in the college. Once graduated, we will be missing these days spent in WLCI.

I have got traineeship and internship through WLCI, which other colleges generally don’t provide…. Gaining experience while doing our course with appropriate knowledge. College also arrangeslectures by best of the people from industry coming as guest lecturer.

After completion of course, I see myself working under some good designer and then launching my own brand in future…. 

Fashion As A Career

Fashion today has become a very lucrative job for young students to carve their path in. In the past ten years, the Fashion Industry has boomed to great extents. Many fresh and creative talents have been induced from today’s generation, and as we speak the fashion industry is on its path to become an alpha industry and a very attractive career advancement opportunity for youngsters who can be as creative and passionate.

Today, many universities offer a degree in Fashion which is looked upon highly. In india, there are quite a few excellent institutes for studies in Fashion and related subjects.  Some of them are the  WLCI Fashion School, NIFT and Pearl Academy of Fashion.

What one can do with a degree in Fashion and its relative subjects is countless and also increasing. Some of the top programmes related to fashion that are offered in these institutes are Fashion Textile, Fashion Management, Fashion Marketing and Fashion Merchandising.

WLCI Fashion School offers Cerificates in Fashion Management, Professional Studies in Fashion Marketing, among a few.

What is Fashion

When one thinks about Fashion,  the lingering question remains, “What is Fashion?”

Once Coco Chanel had said, “There is nothing more comfortable than a caterpillar and nothing more made for love than a butterfly. We need dresses that crawl and dresses that fly. Fashion is at once a caterpillar and a butterfly, caterpillar by day, butterfly by night.” What I think she had meant by this statement was that it is important for one to look good but it is also integral for one to feel comfortable in his or her skin. No one, (not even Coco Chanel) can pull off a look as beautiful as a butterfly without being comfortable in it as well as his or her skin.

Fashion is a fusion of inspiration, style and individuality. The greatest of fashion designers know the importance of individuality. Style should generate from within you and you should present it in the physical form via the media of fashion. One should strive for individuality and not lose their identity. In fashion, one should strive to be the herder and not the sheep. The late Alexander McQueen, one of the greatest designers of our time had once said “I kind of like it the way it is right now, ... I believe in that one-on-one sell. I don't really believe in flooding the market with loads of goods that don't mean much, and (you) lose your identity.”

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