Bachelor of Design (Hons.) - (with specialization in Fashion Design & Styling)

Program Description

The B.Des Fashion Design & Styling Programme focuses on holistic, dynamic and an individuality driven approach to prepare creative professionals for the fashion industry. The course breaks new ground as it has a balanced emphasis on conceptual, curatorial and managerial application of skills with underlying ethos that marries technical ability with industry and technology. The course design lays an equilibrium between fashion creation, fashion representation and fashion management with inclusion of styling, photography, communication, media make-up, global industry practices and entrepreneurship. The course allows the graduates to develop identity, expertise and voice in fashion through the choice of immersive projects and specializations aligned to create deeper and integrative learning experience.

B.Design (B.Des.) Fashion Design & Styling is offered as part of School of Fashion Design

School of Fashion Design

The Fashion Design & Styling programmes at UID enable budding design aspirants to explore and discover their individualistic aesthetic philosophy by creating innovative, ethical and responsible design professionals for a fast-evolving fashion industry. All courses are designed to develop cutting edge product, process and technical understanding narrated by a multidisciplinary and original fashion image and language. The students have the resources and contextual space to develop a macro perspective of all aspects of fashion including textiles, styling and merchandising whilst augmenting micro expertise through choice based modules in chosen areas such as sustainable fashion, craft based design, denim, lingerie and intimate wear, couture, athleisure, knitwear among many others.

Why Study Fashion Design & Styling at UID?

Fashion Students at UID have a distinctive eco-system of learning in a culturally progressive city with a diverse heritage and industry and a multi-disciplinary university having labs equipped with tools and techniques ranging from traditional craft based practice to the latest digital technologies

The ethos of all course is driven with a research-oriented, iterative, inquisitive and eclectic approach with overarching critical contextualisation of culture, society, sustainability, ethics, trends, crafts, technology, market and business.

Students engage in numerous design processes, analysis of design in various fields, working with various materials and engaging in creating garments for women’s wear, men’s wear or kidswear in all categories of pret, couture and avant garde

The pedagogy of design course allows the students to develop a intra-disciplinary and contextual foundation in fashion with strengthening core fashion skillsets with inclusion and prominence on fashion styling, advanced textile expertise, media- make-up, photography, global business practices and social media marketing

There is a strong impetus on collaboration and engagement through numerous masterclass, workshops and projects with eminent Indian and International designers and professionals, industry leaders, academic institutions and organizations such as IFFTI, Cumulus, WDO, ADI, WGSN to develop new practice, paradigms and though leaders.

The internships and placements are done with top designers and corporations of the garment manufacturing industry. Access to our extensive infrastructure, multidisciplinary workshops in the campus and international collaborations with various international universities with respect to summer schools, summer internships and projects keep the students up to date with fashion forecasts and the world trends.

ROGRAMME SPECIFIC OUTCOMES

PSO 1: Textile and Apparel Competency
Develop expertise in textiles, fabrics, and apparel production processes to create innovative and high-quality fashion designs.

PSO 2: Design through Pattern Making and Garment Construction
Master the techniques of pattern making and garment construction to bring design concepts to life with precision and creativity.

PSO 3: Consumer Adaptability
Understand and anticipate consumer needs and preferences to design fashion that is both market-relevant and trend-setting.

PROGRAMME OUTCOMES

PROGRAMME OUTCOMES

PO1. Apply design principles intelligence, speculation, and analytical skills, methods and techniques to develop original solutions for design problems and scenario.

PO2. Critically understand, identify and evaluate historical, cultural, contemporary, socio- political, and aesthetic contexts of multidisciplinary design settings.

PO3. Develop a research oriented inquisitive approach to apply appropriate research tools and techniques for investigation, data collection, analysis, synthesis, and interpretation.

PO4. Demonstrate transferable skills of adaptability, collaboration, time-bound execution, and leadership in multidisciplinary design settings.

PO5. Evolve a personalized design philosophy and approach to the development of design
ideas and solutions.

PO6. Understand the impact of human centric design in the dynamic context of people and communities from the perspective of social, economic, and cultural impact

PO7. Understand the impact of design on environmental sustainability and the application of principles of circular economy and sustainable consumption into design.

PO8. Demonstrate sensitivity and understanding of concerns related to the experience of human and other living beings and incorporating them into design practice

PO9. Develop effective verbal, written and digital communication skills in the context of design

PO10. Demonstrate the appropriate application of existing and emerging tools and technologies, materials, media, techniques, and other methods in the process of design

PO11. Recognize personal and professional development goals and upgrade skills for disciplinary and contextual currency and future directions in the field of design.