Fashion Industry Overview & Scope

ARCH employs design thinking and creative problem solving strategies in all areas of design creation, styling, retail, branding and lifestyle. Intellectual and innovative dimensions in fashion learning are explored through design knowledge, skills and understanding of form, silhouette, material, texture, colours and processes to create innovative, sustainable and responsible fashion. The Fashion Department prepares the students to establish their own space in this complex, ever evolving and growing industry and professionally handle the challenges distinctive to it.

The Indian fashion and textile industry is set for strong growth, buoyed by strong domestic consumption as well as export demand. According to a report by the India Brand Equity Foundation, the apparel market in India is estimated to grow at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 11.8% to reach US$ 180 billion by 2025. Rising globalization and consumerism are encouraging the fashion industry to explore the broadest contexts and applications of the field.

Sectoral Highlights

• The current size of Indian fashion industry stands at around US$ 58 million (2008), is largely unorganized & accounts for barely 0.3 per cent of the international industry’s net worth.
• With Indian consumer becoming more fashion conscious, it is the gigantic Indian fashion consuming public that will continue to set the growth trends for its fashion industry.
• The Industry is expected to more than double & reach US$ 150 million by 2012
• The Industry is expected to create additional employment opportunities for over 50,000 skilled professionals like fashion designer, merchandiser etc by 2012
• Major disciplines of the industry include fashion design, textile design, leather design, accessory and jewellery design.
• From a survey, out of the total number of designers working in the country, this discipline accounts for nearly 1%.
• According to a survey more than 3000 students are being enrolled into these courses.
• One of the institution has more than 100 centers across India as franchised centres. There are others also offering training franchises in these disciplines.
• Fashion design is an applied art dedicated to clothing and lifestyle accessories created within the cultural and social influences of a specific time.
• A trained fashion designer can work in areas like designer wear production, planning and concept management, fashion marketing, design production management, fashion media, quality control, fashion accessory design and promotion of brands.