Fashion and Textile Design Course

Fashion and textile design is about bringing cohesiveness and sophistication to the product which can provide a holistic experience, be it an article of clothing, fabric or even the smallest denominator i.e. a yarn. It includes designing, manufacturing and marketing of the clothing, footwear, fabrics and other textile products. With the advancements in technology, such as augmented reality, AI, 3D printing, automated production techniques etc. the meaning and interpretation of fashion and textiles are changing. The push towards sustainability is also driving the major players of the industry to innovate and create new fabrics and techniques. At The Design Village , the Fashion and Textile design programme considers all these factors continuously making TDV amongst the best fashion designing colleges in Delhi.

The volatility of the changes in this field of Fashion calls for a programme which can develop designers who are capable of dealing with these changes. The Bachelor in Fashion and Textile Designing programme at TDV encompass the two seemingly specialist fields of fashion and textile design into one by highlighting their inherent relationship and enabling students to look at this realm holistically. It questions the stereotypical definitions of Fashion and Fashion design studies. It pushes to discover and embrace the relationship of the fashion sector with other sectors.

The programme follows an integrated approach where students look at the domain in the larger context of India and the world. This helps to bring together the concepts and values of sustainability, environmental studies and living traditions. The curriculum helps in sensitizing students towards consumption and confronts them with the responsibility that has to be taken for this cause. The versatile curriculum of the programme allows it to be the best fashion designing course in Delhi and TDV to be one of the best fashion designing institutes in Delhi.

The focus of the programme is to equip the students with tools and techniques which can help them to become a fashion and textile designer who doesn’t only solve problems of today but also proposes new ways for the future. Areas of focus include :

• MAKING: It includes a history of yarn and science of yarn, weaving and knitting, Industrial manufacturing production and processes.
• SURFACE: It includes learning techniques of dyeing, printing and surface appliqués.
• Manifestation: This includes illustration, Pattern making, Draping and Construction of Garments and Lifestyle products.

In addition courses like Implications of Design, Visual Aesthetics, Conflicting concerns, Context Mapping, Design for values, and many more are offered as electives alongside.

The pedagogy at The Design Village is driven by intrinsic motivation, personal responsibility of the students and lifetime learning attitude, all of which is held together by support of facilitators. The journey of a student is based on the learning manifesto of each student and the itinerary chalked out to achieve it and hence the journey undertaken by every design villager at TDV is unique, and bespoke and it does not have to cease at the end of four years.

Although the journey is individual, the villager is not alone. There is a support system of relevant people, to assist the villagers at every junction.

Each villager charters their own personal learning path. This path is custom made for them with a great mix and match of experiences, projects and tools through three streams of interrelated activities:

• Taskbox: It includes design problems of various scales and durations derived from real-life situations.
• Basket: It is a cluster of courses characterized by a common theme, discipline or learning objective.
• Villaging: It consists of the activities for personal development, with the goal to build the TDV community and oneself.

The pedagogy makes TDV a unique and the best fashion institute in Noida and Delhi.

The curriculum for Bachelor’s degree in Fashion and Textile Design is designed in such a way that over a course of four years, students will become aware of themselves and their values. They will understand what they consider important in the world and how to let this drive their design education. This gives students the freedom to choose what kind of fashion designer they want to become as they evolve.

In basket courses, students will understand the entire product cycle through – Making, Surfaces and Manifestation modules. As their names indicate, the modules pan across the entire gamut of fashion and textiles right from understanding the cultural context of the production of yarn, weaving/knitting of fabric, employing various traditional and contemporary practices of surface techniques to the actual manifestation of textiles without being limited to just garments or lifestyle products. Briefs for taskbox are offered in a variety of contexts ranging from fashion, accessories, lifestyle to a range of cross disciplinary as well as manifestation independent ones. The villaging modules are intentionally the same for all the programmes to ensure development of the self and the village community.

India holds around 14 percent share in the production of textile fibres and yarn, and around 63 percent share in loom production in the global market. These figures indicate the scope in Indian market. After graduating as Bachelor of Fashion Design, a student can choose to engage in their career as:

• Fashion Designer
• Textile Designer
• Lifestyle Designer
• Fashion Blogger
• Brand Manager
• Fashion Merchandiser
• Fashion Illustrator
• Fashion Stylist
• Fashion Journalist
• Fashion Photographer
• Fashion Publicist
• Costume Designer
• Fashion Consultant
• Fashion Curator
• Visual Merchandiser
• Design Entrepreneur
• Strategy Designer
• Design Researcher
• Systems Designer
• Social Designer
• Chief Design Officer
• Chief Creative Officer
• Design Thinker
• Design Manager

Necessary and intense support is provided by TDV facilitators to help kickstart careers of young Design Villagers.