Alphonsa Institute of Fashion Technology (AIFT)

Fashion design seems to be a glamorous mystery for which only a fortunate few have sufficient talent. The word fashion signifies change. This pace of change shows no design of hatting and designers are under contrast pressure to maintain their creative momentum. New development in mass production and information technology have helped to increase their speed of change by decreasing the lead time between design and finished stock entering the retail environment quickly turning catwalk fashion into high street equivalents.

Designing apparel is an exciting and demanding profession that requires special skills and abilities. The successful designer is usually skilled sketches and sometimes a qualified pattern maker and sewer heading a team and interpreting fashion trends from the many source of fashion information for a specific customer are other necessary skills.

Designing apparel is a career in which both men and women can excel. Creativity and skills - not the gender of the designer or crafts person - are the ingredients of success. Men and women have equal abilities to function in most occupation in an apparel factory.

AIFT empowers its students with a total perspective of the fashion and garment industry. The course consists of two sememters of six months durations. Many students on successfull completion of the course have got placement in different parts of the country.