B.Design (Hons.) Fashion Design & Styling – Unitedworld Institute of Design

Program Description

The B.Des Fashion Design & Styling Programme focuses on holistic, dynamic and an individuality driven approach to prepare creative professionals for the fashion industry. The course breaks new ground as it has a balanced emphasis on conceptual, curatorial and managerial application of skills with underlying ethos that marries technical ability with industry and technology. The course design lays an equilibrium between fashion creation, fashion representation and fashion management with inclusion of styling, photography, communication, media make-up, global industry practices and entrepreneurship. The course allows the graduates to develop identity, expertise and voice in fashion through the choice of immersive projects and specializations aligned to create deeper and integrative learning experience.

B.Design (B.Des.) Fashion Design & Styling is offered as part of School of Fashion Design

School of Fashion Design

The Fashion Design & Styling programmes at UID enable budding design aspirants to explore and discover their individualistic aesthetic philosophy by creating innovative, ethical and responsible design professionals for a fast-evolving fashion industry. All courses are designed to develop cutting edge product, process and technical understanding narrated by a multidisciplinary and original fashion image and language. The students have the resources and contextual space to develop a macro perspective of all aspects of fashion including textiles, styling and merchandising whilst augmenting micro expertise through choice based modules in chosen areas such as sustainable fashion, craft based design, denim, lingerie and intimate wear, couture, athleisure, knitwear among many others.

Why Study Fashion Design & Styling at UID?

Fashion Students at UID have a distinctive eco-system of learning in a culturally progressive city with a diverse heritage and industry and a multi-disciplinary university having labs equipped with tools and techniques ranging from traditional craft based practice to the latest digital technologies
The ethos of all course is driven with a research-oriented, iterative, inquisitive and eclectic approach with overarching critical contextualisation of culture, society, sustainability, ethics, trends, crafts, technology, market and business.
Students engage in numerous design processes, analysis of design in various fields, working with various materials and engaging in creating garments for women’s wear, men’s wear or kidswear in all categories of pret, couture and avant garde
The pedagogy of design course allows the students to develop a intra-disciplinary and contextual foundation in fashion with strengthening core fashion skillsets with inclusion and prominence on fashion styling, advanced textile expertise, media- make-up, photography, global business practices and social media marketing
There is a strong impetus on collaboration and engagement through numerous masterclass, workshops and projects with eminent Indian and International designers and professionals, industry leaders, academic institutions and organizations such as IFFTI, Cumulus, WDO, ADI, WGSN to develop new practice, paradigms and though leaders.
The internships and placements are done with top designers and corporations of the garment manufacturing industry. Access to our extensive infrastructure, multidisciplinary workshops in the campus and international collaborations with various international universities with respect to summer schools, summer internships and projects keep the students up to date with fashion forecasts and the world trends.

Bachelor of Design (Hons.) Fashion Design & Styling Syllabus

Semester 1

Course Code	Course Title	L	T	P	Credits
DDD 1641	DESIGN SKILLS & CONCEPTS-I	0	12	0	12
DDD 1643	DSIGN & SENSITIZATION-II	0	7	0	7
DDD 1645	DESIGN & CONTEXT BULIDING-I	0	8	0	8
DDD 1647	COMPUTER SKILLS-I	0	3	0	3
	Total Credits				30

Semester 2

Course Code	Course Title	L	T	P	Credits
DDD 1642	DESIGN SKILLS & CONCEPTS-II	0	12	0	12
DDD 1644	DSIGN & SENSITIZATION-II	0	7	0	7
DDD 1646	DESIGN & CONTEXT BULIDING-II	0	8	0	8
DDD 1648	COMPUTER SKILLS-II	0	3	0	3
	Total Credits				30

Semester 3

Course Code	Course Title	L	T	P	Credits
DFD2641	Studio Project - 1	0	4	0	4
DFD2643	Studio Project - 2	0	5	0	5
DFD2541	FD Core I	0	3	0	3
DFD2543	FD Core II	0	3	0	3
DFD2545	FD Core III	0	3	0	3
ITA 2001	Italian Language and Culture-I	3	0	0	3
DDD2841	History of Art Architecture & Design	3	0	0	3
DEL	Co-curricular Course	0	3	0	3
IPT	IDP	0	0	0	3
	Total Credits				30

Semester 4

Course Code	Course Title	L	T	P	Credits
DFD 2642	Studio Project-3	0	4	0	4
DFD 2644	Studio Project-4	0	6	0	6
DFD 2542	FD Core-IV	0	3	0	3
DFD 2544	FD Core-V	0	3	0	3
DFD 2546	FD Core-VI	0	3	0	3
DDD2842	History of Art Architecture & Design	2	0	0	2
ITA2002	Italian Language & Culture (ITA2002)	3	0	0	3
IPT2001	IDP(IPT2001)	0	3	0	3
DEL	Elective	0	3	0	3
	Total Credits				30

Semester 5

Course Code	Course Title	L	T	P	Credits
DFD 3641	Studio Project ?5	0	4	0	4
DFD 3643	Studio Project ? 6	0	6	0	6
DFD 3541	FD Core VII	0	3	0	8
DFD 3543	FD Core VIII	0	3	0	3
DFD 3545	FD Core IX	0	3	0	3
DDD 3441	Design & Society	0	3	0	3
DDD3443	Business Basics	1	1	0	2
DDD 3543	Internship	0	3	0	3
Co-Curricular Course	DEL	0	3	0	3
	Total Credits				30

Semester 6

Course Code	Course Title	L	T	P	Credits
DFD3642	Studio Project-7	0	4	0	4
DFD3644	Studio Project-8	0	7	0	7
DFD3646	Studio Project-9	0	7	0	8
DFD3542	FD Core-X	0	3	0	3
DFD3544	FD Core-XI	0	3	0	3
DDD3442	Design & Sustainability	1	2	0	3
	Total Credits				30

Semester 7

Course Code	Course Title	L	T	P	Credits
DFD4641	Studio Project -10	0	4	0	4
DFD4643	Studio Project -11	0	6	0	6
DFD4645	Studio Project -12	0	8	0	8
DFD4541	FD Core XIII	0	3	0	3
DFD4543	FD Core XIV	0	3	3	3
DDD4441	Research Project	1	2	0	3
DDD4841	Intellectual Property Rights	3	0	0	3
	Total Credits				30

Semester 8

Course Code	Course Title	L	T	P	Credits
DFD4636	Project Report	0	12	0	12
DFD4634	Industry Project studio	0	18	0	7
	Total Credits				30

Open Electives

Course Code	Course Title	L	T	P	Credits
DEL2515	Co-curricular Course ( UI/UX)	0	3	0	3
DEL2508	Co-curricular Course ( Weaving)	0	3	0	3
DEL2605	Co-curricular Course ( Prints & Pattern)	0	3	0	3
DEL2512	Co-curricular Course ( Water Colour and Sketching)	0	3	0	3
DEL2607	Co-curricular Course( Visual Merchandising)	0	3	0	3
DEL2517	Co-curricular Course ( Film Studies)	0	3	0	3
	Total Credits				30