India has always been the hub of textile and garment trade. There are as
many as 75 institutes in India that offer courses in fashion, design
technology and related fields. Training at these institutes is imparted
keeping in mind the demands of the international market. The institutes
are equipped with latest technologies, laboratories, workshops, design
and research centres, libraries, and computers.
The main motive behind the idea of this institute was to fulfill the
long-felt needs of the export-oriented garment industry to train
manpower in fashion design, garment manufacturing technology and apparel
marketing and merchandising.
NIFT has become one of the leading fashion schools of India, accepted as being on the lines of Fashion Institute of Technology and Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design.
It is the founder member of "Fashion Schools' Foundation of the World",
which comprises 34 fashion schools worldwide. Many of the leading
designers of India are NIFT alumni. In 2006, the Parliament
passed the National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) Bill, 2005,
thereby receiving a statutory status and empowering the institute to
grant its own degrees and other academic distinctions.
With its head office in New Delhi, NIFT has centers at Mumbai, Kolkata, Gandhinagar, Hyderabad, Chennai, Bangalore, Raebareli, Patna, Shillong, Bhopal, Taliparamba, Bhubaneswar and Jodhpur where it offers four-year bachelor and two-year master programmes in the areas of Design, Management and Technology.
International linkages
NIFT has evolved as a Centre of Excellence imparting
multidisciplinary and pragmatic education to its students. With a vision
to have a strong global connect, NIFT has entered into collaborations
with leading fashion institutes and organisations across the globe. NIFT
has signed MOUs with reputed institutes/ universities like ENSAIT,
France, University of the Arts London, UK; University of Leeds, UK;
Demontfort University, UK; Ryerson University, Canada; Royal Melbourne
Institute of Technology, Australia; Domus Academy, Italy and University
of Philadelphia and University of North Carolina, USA to name a few.
Courses offered :-
The regular full time programs at NIFT are run at two levels namely the Graduate and the Post Graduate level however NIFT has also recently launched a PhD program as well. At the Masters level NIFT offers Master of Fashion Management, Master of Design and Master of Fashion Technology.
Master of Fashion Management
MFM is a two-year Master Programme in Fashion Management (erstwhile
AMM) that started in 1987. The objective of the program is to develop
managerial skills in the field of Fashion Advertising, Communication,
Marketing, Retailing and Merchandising best suited to the requirements
of the fashion & luxury retail (both offline and online), fashion
product export and allied sectors. It specializes in imparting quality
education in a unique way of integrating Fashion into business studies.
Students are exposed to creative advertising & marketing, innovative
fashion management practices, fashion and trend forecasting, and
business practices through field visits and industry internships.The
programme inculcates in the students the right attitude to be part of
the management team of any growing organisation in the fashion industry.
Master of Design
A research centric multidisciplinary design program that aims to
encourage specialized thinking and impart a wider perspective. The
programme will provide an opportunity to choose design specializations
in Fashion, Textiles and communication Design. A research environment
would provide a much-needed platform for answering questions, which may
arise twenty years hence.
Fashion Communication
Fashion Communication is a four-year undergraduate degree program. It prepares student for prestigious professional fields like Photography, Graphic Design, Visual Merchandising, Fashion Journalism, Advertising, Retail Management and Event Managements.
Apparel Production
The department of Fashion Technology at NIFT offers the degree Bachelor of Fashion Technology (Apparel Production)
The four-year bachelor program imparts conceptual, theoretical and
practical knowledge pertaining to textile & garment manufacturing
technology. The emphasis is on best practices in apparel production
coupled with understanding of information technology related to apparel
production industry.
Fashion Design
A faculty of trained and highly qualified staff is a plus point of
NIFT. Here, the "learning by doing" approach is given importance and
hence students are being trained according to the national and
international demands of the market. This is a four-year degree course.
Accessory Design
The Accessory Design program of NIFT started in 1991 and was
available for seven years only at NIFT Delhi. In these seven years, the
program became the most successful at NIFT, and graduates from the
program went on to make remarkable changes within the industry, offering
'Design for Business', a mantra of the AD program that led firms and
establishments to see immense profitability through an intelligent and
almost intuitive application of design.
Earlier available as a three-year diploma course, the Accessory
Design program is now a four-year degree course. It is available in Delhi as AD and Hyderabad, Bangalore, Chennai and Gandhinagar, Shillong as F&LA.
Textile Design and Development
Textile design is the course offered by NIFT as a specialization in
textiles, prints, fabric development, weaves, surface embellishments and
garment construction. It's the backbone of the fashion industry. The
fashion industry depends in large part upon the unseen and yet
hardworking denizens of the textile designing department.
Knitwear Design and Technology
The course was two-year postgraduate diploma program introduced at
NIFT in 1994. Now it is a four-year undergraduate degree program.Few
centers are conducting this technology program, at Delhi, Kolkata,
Mumbai, Channai and Hydrabad. The program is structured keeping in view
the requirements of the knitwear industry. Ludhiana and Tripur both
place are very industrial for knitwear Garment. Tripur is the one of the
top Place of fine knits (for T-shirt), that exports to other countries
in very heavy quantity. Ludhiana Is the bigger ciry for warm knitted
fabrics like sweaters for winter season , there a large no of exporters
are exporting the knitted garments to other countries.
