Fashion is highly complex, billion dollar industry today. Fashion business includes all the processes involved with producing raw materials, apparel, accessories and the retail store that sell fashion merchandise to public. In India the fashion industry is having a phenomenal growth since last decades. The fashion market is increasing at national and international level with a tremendous pace day by day.

Fashion is now considered as an instrument one's personality. It is an instrument for self-expression and celebration of style. The growing western influence has led to a fashion boom in India. The trend of fashion consciousness is bound to stay and grow.

Fashion designing, Accessory designing, Textile designing and related areas offers global opportunities. Fashion fields an exciting and demanding profession that requires special skills and abilities. Today fashion is a field with glamour, ramp, archlights and money. Career in fashion offers challenges, artistic satisfaction and personality development with financial security. There is a unique mix of creative art and business in fashion industry.

Personal Qualities required in a Fashion Technology Professional :
Vibrant imagination; capacity to translate ideas on paper; an eye for design; creative bent of mind, good visual imagination, good sketching skills, inventiveness, enterprising and persevering capacity, team spirit, right attitude, commitment and willingness to work for long hours are considered as assets.

Job prospects and career options : The candidates after successful completion of the course can find excellent placements in garment, leather and jewellery industry as merchandising executives, fashion designers, illustrators, fashion co-coordinators, etc.