National Institute of Fashion Technology

National Institute of Fashion Technology
National Institute of Fashion Technology
Established:	1986
Type:	Public
Location:	New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Gandhinagar, Hyderabad, Chennai, Bangalore, Raebareli, Patna, Shillong, Bhopal and Kannur, India
Campus:	Urban
Nickname:	NIFT
Website:	http://www.nift.ac.in

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National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT), Delhi was established in 1986 under the Ministry of Textiles, Government of India. 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 is one of the leading fashion schools of India. It is the founder member of "Fashion school foundation of world", which comprises 23 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..^[1]^[2].

With its head office in New Delhi, NIFT has centers at Mumbai, Kolkata, Gandhinagar, Hyderabad, Chennai, Bangalore, Raebareli,Patna, Shillong, Bhopal and Kannur, where it offers four-year bachelor and two-year master programmes in the areas of Design, Management and Technology.

[edit] Courses offered

[edit] Apparel Production

This four-2003. All the centres except Raebareli, Bhopal, Patna offer this course.

[edit] 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 as well as international demand of the market. This course is a 4-year degree course.

Some Star Alumni of the Fashion Design Department include: Rohit Bal, Ritu Beri, J J Vallaya, Ashish Soni, Rajesh Pratap Singh, Sabhyasachi Mukherjee, Aarti Solanki, Abhishek Gupta, Nandita Basu, Anshu Arora Sen who have gone on to launch their own labels. Some of them are prominent in other fashion industries as well, like exports, domestic design, design consultancy & buying, etc. These include Vaseem Ahmed, Karunesh Vohra, Shaunak Sen Barot, and Nitin Gupta, to name a few.

[edit] Accessory Design

(Available in Delhi as AD and Hyderabad, Bangalore, Chennai and Gandhinagar as F&LA) 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.

One of the most focused design courses in the Indian design education environment, the program emphasizes on the fashion perspective in personal product design as well as on the appreciation and application of traditional Indian crafts base in a contemporary milieu. NIFT infrastructure provides a thorough working knowledge of related materials, processes and technologies in the areas of leather goods, footwear, gift wear, tableware, precious and costume jewellery, and students graduate with conceptual as well as technical strength.

It also delves into the design of personal products such as writing instruments, watches and eyewear. Graduating students move on to work and contribute significantly in the domain of fashion based accessories, products, packaging and display design.

Earlier available as a three-year diploma course, the Accessory Design program is now a four-year degree course.

[edit] Textile Design and Development

[edit] 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. The program is structured keeping in view the requirements of the knitwear industry.

[edit] Program structure

Continuous evaluation process of students
Frequent and regular feedback
Collaboration with leading educational institutions; namely, Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), New York, U.S.A., Nottingham Trent University (NTU), UK and other premier institutions in the country.

[edit] Faculty

[edit] First year

Ms. Sushma Saijwal
Ms. Sashmeeta
Ms. Nitika Rana
Ms. Rashmi Gulati
Mr. Samson
Ms. Kavita Patare
Mr. Ranjan

And guest faculties

[edit] Second year

Mr. Prakash
Ms. Kavita Patare
Ms. Rashmi Gulati
Mr. Dhananjay
Mr. Jyomichan(Also the course co-ordinator of AMIT)
Mrs. Jyomichan

[edit] 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)
DAT(Design Automation Technology)
Tuka-tech and Lectra for marker making.

[edit] Library

NIFT's premises has their own well stocked libraries.

[edit] Entrance test

Written test for NIFT admissions are conducted around the first week of February at Bangalore, Bhopal, Calcutta, Chandigarh, Ahmedabad, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Lucknow, Chennai, Mumbai, Thiruvananthapuram, Jaipur, Raipur and Bhubaneshwar. The written examination consists of the following tests: General Ability Test, Creative Ability Test (CAT) and, for the Apparel Marketing course, the Managerial Ability Test.

[edit] See also

[edit] Notable alumni

Aditi Tandon, co-founder - IDesign for Baby & Founder TwoDotts.com, Winner of the Most Commercial Award
MANISH ARORA
ROHIT BAL
JJ VALLAYA
ASHISH SONI
RAJESH PRATAP SINGH
Liaqat Rasul

[edit] References

^ The National Institute of Fashion Technology Bill, 2005 passed by Parliament Press Information Bureau, Ministry of Textiles, Govt. of India. May 23, 2006."...NIFT will get a statutory status and will formally recognize the contribution and pre-eminent role played by the premier institution for its leadership role in the fashion industry, business and crafts."
^ New Fashion School in India Draws From a Rich Heritage] By Barbara Crossette, New York Times, June 21, 1989.

[edit] External links

[0] The National Institute of Fashion Technology Bill, 2005 passed by Parliament Press Information Bureau, Ministry of Textiles, Govt. of India. May 23, 2006."...NIFT will get a statutory status and will formally recognize the contribution and pre-eminent role played by the premier institution for its leadership role in the fashion industry, business and crafts."

[1] New Fashion School in India Draws From a Rich Heritage] By Barbara Crossette, New York Times, June 21, 1989.

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