Suchitra Das
Fashion designing is one of the most exciting career options in today's world. When we speak of fashion designing our focus mainly goes on textile sector but, there are several other ancillary sectors also like that of jewellery designing, knitwear designing and footwear or leather designing etc., which all come under the umbrella of fashion designing. The job opportunities are varied and many, since it is an emerging and expanding sector with demand for products increasing leaps and bound day by day. The job requires creative talents, and if you have right aptitude to make magic with colours, designs and shapes, it is the right profession for you to excel.
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. You will also find jobs as costume designer, fashion consultant, personal stylist, technical designer, graphic designer, production pattern maker, fashion coordinator, apparel production manager, fabric buyer, fabric quality control manager, show room sales representative, illustrator, cutting assistant and outside sales representative in this industry. Those interested in a career in fashion designing can also become entrepreneurs and form their own enterprises.
Students interested in a career in fashion designing, need to enroll in professional courses to gain expertise in various areas of this industry, such as, garment manufacturing technology, textile science, apparel construction methods, fabric dyeing and printing, color mixing and computer-aided designing (CAD).
There are several institutes that imparts professional courses in fashion designing including Government sponsored NIFT etc. Following is the list of a few courses, which groom the suitable talents for fashion industries.
Fashion Design Courses India
Accessory & Jewelry Design Courses
Modeling Courses
Interior Design Courses
Textile Technology Courses
Textile Design Extensive Course
Footwear Design & Technology Courses
After having discussed about the basic of fashion industry, I would now elaborate on the planetary positions, which act as catalyst for a successful career in the fashion industry. Venus is the primary planet and its interaction and prominence in the house of professional matter and the respective lord of profession in a horoscope is the determining factor whether a person would be successful fashion designer or not. Venus is the planet for creativity, planning, and beauty and all these attributes are essential prerequisites to become a successful fashion designer. The interactions and influences of other planets on Venus decide the fields which one would opt from the drop down sub-menus under the domain of fashion designing.
Textile and apparel designing
Influences, combinations or interactions of Moon and Venus. The textile and apparel are under the domain of Moon;
Jewellery Designing
The planetary interactions among Venus, Moon, Mercury and Rahu to some extent. Jewellery is also under the domain of Moon. Mercury and Rahu provide necessary skills to work on the tinny objects including their designing;
Textile Technology
The Venus, Moon, Mars and Saturn combine. Mars is the fiery planet and the main significator planet for technology and engineering. Saturn provides toiling and mechanical skills;
Leather and Foot Wear Designing including CAD
Venus, Rahu and Mercury trio combine. Rahu is the planet for leather and foot wear. Rahu and Mercury combine give zest for Computer Aided Designing (CAD);
Managerial affluence in the above sectors
Besides the influence of respective sectoral planets as discussed above, the blessing of the Sun is absolutely essential to enable one to climb upto the top most position. The beauticians and beauty parlors can also be bracketed with the fashion industry.
We assess the planetary positions in the natal horoscope (D1), D24 (sub divisional chart for educational purpose) and D10 (the divisional chart for professional matters) while analyzing the career prospects in the fashion industry. The planetary promises are always compulsive and come with as our destiny and fate, which determine the course and path of our life. Astrology is a divine science, the knowledge of which has been gifted by the Almighty God to us, out of His utter compassion to us. As such, those who believe in astrology can take the help of this divine science for amelioration of his fate to the extent possible.
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