Fashion Design

With our Fashion Design programme, you receive comprehensive training in the conception, development, and realisation of contemporary fashion collections. From the outset, we place strong emphasis on research, cultural investigations, and historical and material contexts so you can develop original design concepts that are truly your own. These ideas are progressively translated into garments through drawing, textile experimentation, and construction, leading to fully realised collections presented in both physical and digital formats.

Throughout the course, you develop both independent and collaborative working methods, building key professional skills including:

• The ideation and development of original fashion collections grounded in research and experimentation
• The creation of fashion illustrations and design proposals informed by silhouette, proportion, and material exploration
• The application of pattern cutting, draping, and construction techniques to realise innovative garment forms
• The production of technical drawings and digital visualisations for a professional portfolio and collection presentation

Our Fashion Design programme is open to students who have completed their 10+2 education from any stream. No prior experience in fashion or design is required, making it ideal if you're looking to explore your creative potential for the first time. What truly matters is a genuine interest in fashion, creativity, and design thinking. If you want to step into the world of fashion design, we give you the right foundation to begin. You should prepare a portfolio of creative ideas for the application process.

A central pillar of our Fashion Design programme is research led design, where investigation and experimentation drive the entire creative process. You engage in both primary and secondary research, exploring visual culture, history, and contemporary contexts through drawing, photography, and material study, transforming references into original ideas through collage, sketching, 3D prototyping, and AI aided experimentation. Textile development deepens this further, with dyeing, printing, and manipulation directly informing design outcomes. This approach builds critical thinking, conceptual clarity, and material sensitivity, ensuring that illustration, construction, and communication come together within a coherent, innovative design practice.

Our programme covers a wide range of creative and technical skills essential for a career in fashion design. You learn fashion illustration and sketching, gain hands on experience in pattern making and garment construction, and develop a deep understanding of fabrics and textiles. You're also introduced to digital graphic design and presentation software as well as 3D fashion design tools like CLO3D and Generative AI that help you communicate ideas with clarity and confidence. Portfolio development runs throughout, ensuring you graduate with a strong, industry ready body of work.

At Marangoni Mumbai, the focus goes beyond education to ensuring students are truly industry-ready, with structured support in portfolio building, interview preparation, and career planning, alongside access to internship and placement opportunities that ease the transition into the professional world. Students learn under experienced faculty who blend academic expertise with real-world industry insight, offering personalised guidance throughout their creative and career journeys. The three-year Fashion Design programme stands apart for its research-led approach, exploring fashion through culture, history, material experimentation, and digital tools, with live projects and final collection presentations that mirror real industry expectations, and a simple application process where the admissions team guides prospective students from enquiry through to enrolment.

The Fashion Design Programme provides participants with the techniques to design and create menswear or womenswear, while responding to changing needs in the international fashion and luxury industries. Fashion designers are the inspiration for creative ideas and new trends, not only in clothing, but also in fabric development. They create collections based on an informed analysis of materials and fabrics in connection with art, design, creativity, and fashion. Starting with skills in sketching and drawing, this programme moves on to address key notions and techniques in fashion design and fabric and clothing manufacturing, as well as cultural studies in the history of dress, and the fashion system. Working directly from their own illustrated ideas participants progress on to collection design and garment making; selecting the most appropriate materials, analysing fabrics, applying draping and pattern cutting techniques, and final garment construction. On successful completion of each level,  participants gain a solid foundation in developing ideas through research, and are encouraged to apply critical thinking to their own design development. 

The Fashion Design Programme is delivered  two distinct certificate levels programmes, and participants can choose when to build on their experience by progressing from one level to another, giving them complete control on their own progress and achievement. On successful completion of each  participants acquire a solid base in fashion design and garment construction to enable them to enter the industry, or to progress further in their studies to a higher level of comprehension and skill. The programme is aimed at candidates who have the ambition to become professional fashion designers, or who are looking to enter the fashion design and creative industries.

Fashion Design 1 (24 weeks)

The first level certificate programme or ‘block’ starts with an overview of sketching and drawing techniques, pattern cutting basics, and the principles of art and dress in history. Participants then move on to acquiring and developing skills to design collections based on an informed analysis of body proportion, looking at the influences of art and culture on design, fabrics, garment construction and researching ideas.

Fashion Design 2 (24 weeks)

This second and final phase of the certificate level programme further progresses in collection design, where participants fully understand and apply their acquired expertise to their own designs and collection projects. They will work on a group project and create a collective collection, as in a real working fashion design environment. The project results in a joint fashion show collection and is part of a final individual fashion collection portfolio, that participants can present to eventual prospective employers.

Alongside a solid base in fashion design and garment construction, at the end of the course (2 levels) participants will have gained familiarity with the international network of contacts, contexts, and opportunities that surrounds the vibrant world of fashion, to independently enter into the working world. Fashion designers can work for private labels or in collaboration with national and international fashion houses and style studios, designing collections for womenswear and menswear, while keeping an eye on new evolutions in fashion design.

The Fashion Design Programme is delivered  two distinct certificate levels programmes, and participants can choose when to build on their experience by progressing from one level to another, giving them complete control on their own progress and achievement. On successful completion of each  participants acquire a solid base in fashion design and garment construction to enable them to enter the industry, or to progress further in their studies to a higher level of comprehension and skill. The programme is aimed at candidates who have the ambition to become professional fashion designers, or who are looking to enter the fashion design and creative industries.

The Fashion Design Programme provides participants with the techniques to design and create menswear or womenswear, while responding to changing needs in the international fashion and luxury industries. Fashion designers are the inspiration for creative ideas and new trends, not only in clothing, but also in fabric development. They create collections based on an informed analysis of materials and fabrics in connection with art, design, creativity, and fashion. Starting with skills in sketching and drawing, this programme moves on to address key notions and techniques in fashion design and fabric and clothing manufacturing, as well as cultural studies in the history of dress, and the fashion system. Working directly from their own illustrated ideas participants progress on to collection design and garment making; selecting the most appropriate materials, analysing fabrics, applying draping and pattern cutting techniques, and final garment construction. On successful completion of each level,  participants gain a solid foundation in developing ideas through research, and are encouraged to apply critical thinking to their own design development. 

The Fashion Design Programme is delivered  two distinct certificate levels programmes, and participants can choose when to build on their experience by progressing from one level to another, giving them complete control on their own progress and achievement. On successful completion of each  participants acquire a solid base in fashion design and garment construction to enable them to enter the industry, or to progress further in their studies to a higher level of comprehension and skill. The programme is aimed at candidates who have the ambition to become professional fashion designers, or who are looking to enter the fashion design and creative industries.

The first level certificate programme or ‘block’ starts with an overview of sketching and drawing techniques, pattern cutting basics, and the principles of art and dress in history. Participants then move on to acquiring and developing skills to design collections based on an informed analysis of body proportion, looking at the influences of art and culture on design, fabrics, garment construction and researching ideas.

This second and final phase of the certificate level programme further progresses in collection design, where participants fully understand and apply their acquired expertise to their own designs and collection projects. They will work on a group project and create a collective collection, as in a real working fashion design environment. The project results in a joint fashion show collection and is part of a final individual fashion collection portfolio, that participants can present to eventual prospective employers.

Alongside a solid base in fashion design and garment construction, at the end of the course (2 levels) participants will have gained familiarity with the international network of contacts, contexts, and opportunities that surrounds the vibrant world of fashion, to independently enter into the working world. Fashion designers can work for private labels or in collaboration with national and international fashion houses and style studios, designing collections for womenswear and menswear, while keeping an eye on new evolutions in fashion design.