A Career in Fashion

Fashion designing is a exciting art form and at the same time provides a stimulating and rewarding career path to many stalwarts. Fashion designing is more than just creating beautiful pieces of fahion. It extends to a myriad of activities and opportunities that lie within the fashion industry itself which is a thriving and lucrative industry. The local and export market for the fashion industry is one of thetop 10 leading revenue drivers for the country. In this region, the fashion market especially in manufacturing accounts for a large valume of consumer wearable’s found throughout the world today.

Fashion isn’t just about clothes. Fashion accessories and consumables such as handbags, shoes, belts, jewellery and other items can be included within the scope of a fashion designer. The industry itself requires skilled and knowledgeable people constantly and it is with this criteria that IFTC structures if courses and fashion programmes to provide the necessary skill sets and individual would require to adapt and blend into the fashion industry almost immediately.

The Fashion industry offers a large scope of job career opportunities includes:

• Fashion, product and accessory designer
• Professional pattern drafter
• Boutique business in bridal, evening and couture
• Fashion stylist and image consultants
• Fashion merchandiser and buyer
• Fashion writer, journalist and editor
• Fashion manufacturer for mass production
• Fashion entrepreneur
• Textile and colour specialist
• Fashion creator and consultant
• Fashion couturier

These are just some of the various opportunities a right qualification can offer and as our graduates will testify, an IFTC qualification has helped many achieve their goals and aspirations.

IFTC is linked with Paris American
Academy in France since 1991

IFTC was awarded
Brand Excellence in the
Education Industry for
Fashion Design
 by Brand Laureate
in 2007 & 2008