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Fashion Design Foundation

The principles. Form, line, fabric, silhouette, season. The vocabulary every designer must own.

Duration4 months · 320 hours
CertificationDiploma in Fashion Design Foundation
ModeOn-campus · full-time
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01Overview

The programme

Before a designer can design anything that sells, she needs the vocabulary: the names, the proportions, the fabrics, the seasons. This course covers all of it. It is foundational by intent — every subsequent fashion programme assumes the student has done this one or the equivalent.

Half of the work is studio practice: silhouettes, mood boards, swatches, and figure sketches. The other half is taught seminar-style: fashion history, the contemporary Indian and global industry, the working calendar of a design house.

The course finishes with a small capsule project — three garments, sketched, sourced and presented as a concept board, plus a one-page brand statement for the student herself.

02What you will learn

Modules

  1. 01Elements of design: line, form, balance, rhythm
  2. 02Fashion history: Indian and global, with a focus on post-1947 Indian design
  3. 03Fibre and fabric: cotton, silk, wool, blends, weaves
  4. 04Indian textiles: handloom, block print, ikat, jamdani
  5. 05Silhouettes and the figure
  6. 06Colour theory and seasonal palettes
  7. 07Mood-boarding and concept development
  8. 08Figure sketches: proportion and rendering
  9. 09Garment vocabulary: bodice, yoke, gusset, gore
  10. 10The fashion calendar and seasonal collections
  11. 11The Indian fashion industry today
  12. 12Capsule project: three garments, concept to board
03Who this is for

The student we have in mind

  • —First-year fashion students
  • —Career-changers entering design
  • —Self-taught makers seeking formal grounding
  • —Future entrepreneurs in textile and apparel
04Included

Tools & materials

  • ✦Sketchbook, drawing kit and basic art supplies
  • ✦Course-period access to the textile library
  • ✦Reading list and digital archive access
05Faculty

Who teaches it

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06Outcomes

Where graduates go

Pathways
  • —Pathway into specialist fashion programmes
  • —Assistant designer roles
  • —Buying and merchandising entry roles
  • —Founders of small-batch labels
Starting income (indicative)

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Alumni note

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07Investment

Fee structure

Base fee

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EMI

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Scholarship

Merit and need-based scholarships available — apply during enquiry.

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