courses available to become a fashion designer

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What are the courses available to become a fashion designer

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Courses in fashion merchandising and management are available largely at the postgraduate level. There are specific courses dealing with fashion marketing as well at the postgraduate diploma level in select institutes. Some institutes also offer a course in fashion merchandising at the graduation level.

The fashion management programs impart training in the marketing, merchandising and management of the product Like any other specialized management course, fashion management provides a basic grounding in general management, followed by a specialization; In fashion management, which focuses on merchandising, marketing, manufacturing and integrated studies.

There is a heavy focus on the convergence of domestic and export marketing strategies, change and innovation management, IT integrated marketing strategies, merchandising and marketing from fibre to fashion, fashion e-business and retail technologies.

Some of the other aspects a student learns in this course include which product will sell where, where to open a retail outlet, how to promote the product and how to develop the brand. Students also get to understand the dynamics and structure of fashion organisations, are asked to conduct market surveys of fashion trends and even taught fashion forecasting.