The work of costume designers is part art, part fashion design, part history, and part drama. It's about capturing someone's essence, representing life in a particular time or place, and making a statement about performers that inspires fantasy and distinguishes them from the rest of us. Costume Designer Jill Ohanneson says, "In costume design you're designing for a character. You don't have to just design paints and a shirt and a tie. You're also designing sadness and droopiness and wiltiness." Understanding the nuances of story, setting, and character are typically essential, so a solid foundation in fashion history is usually a must. Costume designers conduct enormous amounts of research, and they should have a natural curiosity about people and history.

Basic coursework includes color, textiles, sewing and tailoring, pattern making, fashion history, computer-aided design (CAD), and design of different types of clothing such as menswear or footwear. Aspiring fashion designers can learn these necessary skills through internships with design or manufacturing firms. Some designers also gain valuable experience working in retail stores, as personal stylists, or as custom tailors. Such experience can help designers gain sales and marketing skills while learning what styles and fabrics look good on different people.

Designers must have a strong sense of the esthetic—an eye for color and detail, a sense of balance and proportion, and an appreciation for beauty. Fashion designers also need excellent communication and problem-solving skills. Despite the advancement of computer-aided design, sketching ability remains an important advantage in fashion design. A good portfolio—a collection of a person’s best work—often is the deciding factor in getting a job.

In addition to creativity, fashion designers also need to have sewing and patternmaking skills, even if they do not perform these tasks themselves. Designers need to be able to understand these skills so they can give proper instruction in how the garment should be constructed. Fashion designers also need strong sales and presentation skills to persuade clients to purchase their designs. Good teamwork and communication skills also are necessary because increasingly the business requires constant contact with suppliers, manufacturers, and buyers around the world.

The Department of Costume and Fashion Design spells out techniques regarding costume, performance, life drawing, illumination, semiotics and make up as well as information about accessories.  This is supported by a sound knowledge of the history of costume and research of historical references with regard to contemporary clothing and how it is worn.  This course aims to train professionals to be able to create costumes for theatre, opera, cinema and audiovisual programmes; to see the costume as an element of visual expression and of theatrical language itself; to create professionals with the capacity to transmit periods and styles, to reflect on and assimilate the influence of fashion, in order to give it a personal and creative meaning.    The department has well equipped labs with latest technology machines;

• PEGASUS - 2 or 3 needle flat bed and cylinder bed interlock machine
• PEGASUS - over edger machine
• BROTHER - single needle direct drive straight lock stitch machine
• BROTHER - twin needle lock stitch machine
• BROTHER - electronic button hole and button sewer

MoU

The college has signed Mou with leading corporates and public and state level undertakings in various fields for development of research and learning