National Institute of Fashion Technology
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National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) is a prestigious fashion
institute in India. It was set up in 1986 under the aegis of the Ministry of Textiles
, Government of India
and is a premier institution in design, management and technology, developing professionals leadership positions in the international fashion business. NIFT has been granted statutory status under the act of Parliament of India in 2006, empowering the Institute to award degrees and other academic distinctions, making it the first-of-its-kind in the world.
The institute provides fashion business education through a network of fourteen domestic centres at New Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai, Gandhinagar, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai, Raebareli, Bhopal, Taliparamba, Patna, Shillong, Bhubaneswar, Kangra and Jodhpur. NIFT has opened an international centre in Mauritius.
NIFT teachers are professionals in their fields. The institute provides a common platform for fashion education, research and training.
NIFT has become one of the leading fashion schools of India, accepted as being on the lines of Fashion Institute of Technology
and Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
. It is the founder member of "Fashion Schools' Foundation of the World", which comprises 34 fashion schools worldwide. Many of the leading designers of India are NIFT alumni. In 2006, the Parliament passed the National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) Bill, 2005, thereby receiving a statutory status and empowering the institute to grant its own degrees and other academic distinctions.
With its head office in New Delhi, NIFT has centers at Mumbai
, Kolkata
, Gandhinagar, Hyderabad, Chennai
, Bangalore
, Raebareli
, Patna
, Shillong
, Bhopal, Taliparamba
, Bhubaneswar
and Jodhpur
where it offers four-year bachelor and two-year master programmes in the areas of Design, Management and Technology.
At the Masters level NIFT offers Master of Fashion Management, Master of Design and Master of Fashion Technology.
, Graphic Design
, Visual Merchandising, Fashion Journalism
, Advertising
, Retail Management and Event Management.
Earlier available as a three-year diploma course, the Accessory Design program is now a four-year degree course. It is available in Delhi
as AD and Hyderabad, Bangalore
, Chennai
and Gandhinagar, Shillong
as F&LA.
Fashion
Fashion, a general term for a currently popular style or practice, especially in clothing, foot wear, or accessories. Fashion references to anything that is the current trend in look and dress up of a person...
institute in India. It was set up in 1986 under the aegis of the Ministry of Textiles
Ministry of Textiles
The Ministry of Textiles is responsible for the formulation of policy, planning, development, export promotion and regulation of the textile sector in India. This includes all natural, artificial, and cellulosic fibres that go into the making of textiles, clothing and handicrafts. As of May 2009,...
, Government of India
Government of India
The Government of India, officially known as the Union Government, and also known as the Central Government, was established by the Constitution of India, and is the governing authority of the union of 28 states and seven union territories, collectively called the Republic of India...
and is a premier institution in design, management and technology, developing professionals leadership positions in the international fashion business. NIFT has been granted statutory status under the act of Parliament of India in 2006, empowering the Institute to award degrees and other academic distinctions, making it the first-of-its-kind in the world.
The institute provides fashion business education through a network of fourteen domestic centres at New Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai, Gandhinagar, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai, Raebareli, Bhopal, Taliparamba, Patna, Shillong, Bhubaneswar, Kangra and Jodhpur. NIFT has opened an international centre in Mauritius.
NIFT teachers are professionals in their fields. The institute provides a common platform for fashion education, research and training.
History
The main motive behind the idea of this institute was to fulfill the long-felt needs of the export-oriented garment industry to train manpower in fashion design, garment manufacturing technology and apparel marketing and merchandising.NIFT has become one of the leading fashion schools of India, accepted as being on the lines of Fashion Institute of Technology
Fashion Institute of Technology
The Fashion Institute of Technology, generally known as FIT, is a State University of New York college of art, business, design, and technology connected to the fashion industry, with an urban campus located on West 27th Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues in the Chelsea neighborhood of...
and Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London. The school has an outstanding international reputation, and is considered one of the world's leading art and design institutions...
. It is the founder member of "Fashion Schools' Foundation of the World", which comprises 34 fashion schools worldwide. Many of the leading designers of India are NIFT alumni. In 2006, the Parliament passed the National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) Bill, 2005, thereby receiving a statutory status and empowering the institute to grant its own degrees and other academic distinctions.
With its head office in New Delhi, NIFT has centers at Mumbai
Mumbai
Mumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...
, Kolkata
Kolkata
Kolkata , formerly known as Calcutta, is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly River, it was the commercial capital of East India...
, Gandhinagar, Hyderabad, Chennai
Chennai
Chennai , formerly known as Madras or Madarasapatinam , is the capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, located on the Coromandel Coast off the Bay of Bengal. Chennai is the fourth most populous metropolitan area and the sixth most populous city in India...
, Bangalore
Bangalore
Bengaluru , formerly called Bengaluru is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. Bangalore is nicknamed the Garden City and was once called a pensioner's paradise. Located on the Deccan Plateau in the south-eastern part of Karnataka, Bangalore is India's third most populous city and...
, Raebareli
Raebareli
Raebareli is a city and a municipal board in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is the administrative headquarters of Raebareli District....
, Patna
Patna
Paṭnā , is the capital of the Indian state of Bihar and the second largest city in Eastern India . Patna is one of the oldest continuously inhabited places in the world...
, Shillong
Shillong
-Connectivity:Although well connected by road, Shillong has no rail connection and a proper air connection. Umroi Airport exists but has only limited flights.-Roadways:Shillong is well connected by roads with all major north eastern states...
, Bhopal, Taliparamba
Taliparamba
Taliparamba is a city and a municipality in Kannur district in the Indian state of Kerala and spread over an area of 43.05 km2. It stretches from the coastal area of Ramanthali to Nuchiyard and Vayathur villages, touching the Karnataka border.Taliparamba is a big town of 67,000 people...
, Bhubaneswar
Bhubaneswar
Bhubaneswar is the capital of the Indian state of Orissa, officially Odisha. The city has a long history of over 2000 years starting with Chedi dynasty who had Sisupalgarh near present-day Bhubaneswar as their capital...
and Jodhpur
Jodhpur
Jodhpur , is the second largest city in the Indian state of Rajasthan. It is located west from the state capital, Jaipur and from the city of Ajmer. It was formerly the seat of a princely state of the same name, the capital of the kingdom known as Marwar...
where it offers four-year bachelor and two-year master programmes in the areas of Design, Management and Technology.
International linkages
NIFT has evolved as a Centre of Excellence imparting multidisciplinary and pragmatic education to its students. NIFT has entered into collaborations with leading fashion institutes and organisations across the globe. NIFT has signed MOUs with reputed institutes/ universities like ENSAIT, France, University of the Arts London, UK; University of Leeds, UK; Demontfort University, UK; Ryerson University, Canada; Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia; Domus Academy, Italy and University of Philadelphia and University of North Carolina, USA to name a few.Courses offered
The regular full time programs at NIFT are run at two levels namely the Graduate and the Post Graduate level however NIFT has also recently launched a PhD program as well.At the Masters level NIFT offers Master of Fashion Management, Master of Design and Master of Fashion Technology.
Master of Fashion Management
MFM is a two-year Master Programme in Fashion Management (erstwhile AMM) that started in 1987. The objective of the program is to develop managerial skills in the field of Fashion Advertising, Communication, Marketing, Retailing and Merchandising best suited to the requirements of the fashion & luxury retail (both offline and online), fashion product export and allied sectors. It specializes in imparting quality education in a unique way of integrating Fashion into business studies. Students are exposed to creative advertising & marketing, innovative fashion management practices, fashion and trend forecasting, and business practices through field visits and industry internships.The programme inculcates in the students the right attitude to be part of the management team of any growing organisation in the fashion industry.Master of Design
A research centric multidisciplinary design program that aims to encourage specialized thinking and impart a wider perspective. The programme will provide an opportunity to choose design specializations in Fashion, Textiles and communication Design. A research environment would provide a much-needed platform for answering questions, which may arise twenty years hence.Fashion Communication
Fashion Communication is a four-year undergraduate degree program. It prepares student for prestigious professional fields like PhotographyPhotography
Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...
, Graphic Design
Graphic design
Graphic design is a creative process – most often involving a client and a designer and usually completed in conjunction with producers of form – undertaken in order to convey a specific message to a targeted audience...
, Visual Merchandising, Fashion Journalism
Fashion journalism
Fashion journalism is an umbrella term used to describe all aspects of published fashion media. It includes fashion writers, fashion critics or fashion reporters...
, Advertising
Advertising
Advertising is a form of communication used to persuade an audience to take some action with respect to products, ideas, or services. Most commonly, the desired result is to drive consumer behavior with respect to a commercial offering, although political and ideological advertising is also common...
, Retail Management and Event Management.
Apparel Production
The department of Fashion Technology at NIFT offers the degree Bachelor of Fashion Technology (Apparel Production)Fashion Design
A faculty of trained and highly qualified staff is a plus point of NIFT. Here, the "learning by doing" approach is given importance and hence students are being trained according to the national and international demands of the market.Accessory Design
The Accessory Design program of NIFT started in 1991 and was available for seven years only at NIFT Delhi. In these seven years, the program became the most successful at NIFT, and graduates from the program went on to make remarkable changes within the industry, offering 'Design for Business', a mantra of the AD program that led firms and establishments to see immense profitability through an intelligent and almost intuitive application of design.Earlier available as a three-year diploma course, the Accessory Design program is now a four-year degree course. It is available in Delhi
Delhi
Delhi , officially National Capital Territory of Delhi , is the largest metropolis by area and the second-largest by population in India, next to Mumbai. It is the eighth largest metropolis in the world by population with 16,753,265 inhabitants in the Territory at the 2011 Census...
as AD and Hyderabad, Bangalore
Bangalore
Bengaluru , formerly called Bengaluru is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. Bangalore is nicknamed the Garden City and was once called a pensioner's paradise. Located on the Deccan Plateau in the south-eastern part of Karnataka, Bangalore is India's third most populous city and...
, Chennai
Chennai
Chennai , formerly known as Madras or Madarasapatinam , is the capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, located on the Coromandel Coast off the Bay of Bengal. Chennai is the fourth most populous metropolitan area and the sixth most populous city in India...
and Gandhinagar, Shillong
Shillong
-Connectivity:Although well connected by road, Shillong has no rail connection and a proper air connection. Umroi Airport exists but has only limited flights.-Roadways:Shillong is well connected by roads with all major north eastern states...
as F&LA.
Textile Design and Development
Textile design is the course offered by NIFT as a specialization in textiles, prints, fabric development, weaves, surface embellishments and garment construction. It's the backbone of the fashion industry. The fashion industry depends in large part upon the unseen and yet hardworking denizens of the textile designing department.Knitwear Design and Technology
The course was two-year postgraduate diploma program introduced at NIFT in 1994. Now it is a four-year undergraduate degree program.Few centers are conducting this technology program, at Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Chennai and Hyderabad. The program is structured keeping in view the requirements of the knitwear industry. Ludhiana and Tripur both place are very industrial for knitwear Garment. Tripur is the one of the top Place of fine knits (for T-shirt), that exports to other countries in very heavy quantity. Ludhiana Is the bigger ciry for warm knitted fabrics like sweaters for winter season, there a large no of exporters are exporting the knitted garments to other countries.Computer center
The main educational courses offered to the students are- CAFI (Computer Application for the Fashion Industry)
- TIFF (A Design Technology Course)
- ATD (Computer Aided Textile Designing)
- Tuka-tech and Lectra
NIFT Institutes
Some of the NIFT Institutes are- National Institute of Fashion Technology Chennai
See also
- Delhi Fashion WeekDelhi Fashion WeekDelhi Fashion Week is a bi-annual fashion event held in fashion capital of India New Delhi. The name Delhi Fashion Week follows the international practice of christening the fashion week event after the name of the city in which it is being held...
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