Where and how you can apply for fashion design internships

Fashion Design Internships

Fashion designing is a career path for people who are extremely innovative and creative and if you are currently undergoing a fashion design course then pursuing an internship with a designer or a fashion house is almost as important as attending your every day classes. We say this because in a hands-on course such as fashion designing not all can be learnt sitting in an air-conditioned room and going through books; one needs exposure and that too practical on-the-job.

Also, if you thought that a fashion design internship was only about designing clothes then you are wrong, because these internships also help to train students on other aspects of the fashion design industry such as business to business transactions between suppliers and distributors, the entire process of clothing and style design, understanding production cycles and budgets, how to market and cross promote a collection, multimedia coverage of the fashion industry, public relations as well as graphic design.

Shiksha.com is therefore, trying to make this task of searching for a fashion design internship easier for you by listing out places where you can apply, what you should expect as well as duration and stipend paid during design internships.

Fashion Design Internship: Where to apply

These days most of the top fashion designers offer internships to design students. But most of them are said to prefer taking recommended candidates. Here are the names of some of the top designers with whom you can apply for internships:

• Shantanu and Nikhil
• Manish Arora
• Rohit Bal
• Pankaj and Nidhi
• Tarun Tahiliani

As per their preference, students can even intern at design houses as well as at retail brands such as:

• ITC Wills Lifestyle
• Pantaloons
• Arvind Brands
• Madura Fashions

Fashion Design Internship: How to apply

Students can apply for internships by sending a request letter along with their CV to the designers and companies of their choice. However, the best way to secure an internship would be to contact the placement and training cell of your respective colleges to know the internship opportunities you may have for yourself.

Fashion Design Internship: Selection process & duration

For under-graduate course in Fashion Design, the process of interview/selection starts in January while for the post-graduate courses, it happens in the month of May.

The duration of most fashion design internships is two months.

Fashion Design Internship: Fee & stipend

Most designers as well as design houses offer internships to fashion design students absolutely free of cost. On the other hand, students are paid a monthly stipend during their internship.

Providing more information, Sunil Gideon, VP, Corporate Relations, Pearl Academy, New Delhi said, “On an average, designers pay around Rs 2000 to Rs 3000 per month to fashion design interns. However, this varies from designer to designer because some of them even pay up to Rs 5000 per month to students during internship”.