A Textbook of Fashion Studies Class 12 (Skill Education- Code 837) for CBSE 2024-25

Fashion plays an active role in influencing consumers’ lifestyle choices. In some areas such as clothing accessories cars foods wellness vacations and so on it has become the driving force behind global trends. Despite its glamourousness fashion is a serious business with high financial stakes worldwide. India is becoming a prominent figure on the global fashion map as it continues to become increasingly identified with textiles clothing and culture in an International Fashion Scenario. A large variety of useful topics that encourage individual achievement have been offered to students by the existing education environment. Several people want to pursue a non-traditional career in which creativity problem-solving and entrepreneurial skills are integrated into an exciting combination. Fashion Studies is offered at CBSE 11 level as an optional course that reflects the direction in which fashion is considered a creative and challenging career. Fashion Studies provides an insight into the components and processes of garment design textile production and marketing. This includes the entire fiber-to-fabric process from conception to manufacture of clothing. It gives an overview of fashion the understanding of fabrics and surface technologies design fundamentals and elements of garment production. It is proposed that Fashion Studies should be the subject of a student’s curriculum to enable them to decide how best to pursue their dreams. The Subject of Fashion Studies was launched as an independent elective course at the Senior Secondary Level in 2006 to meet the needs of today’s changing fashion industry. The book is designed to provide students with a thorough knowledge of this subject by the same CBSE curriculum. For those interested in fashion and its various aspects it can be considered as an introductory book. For an introduction course in vocational training the book will be a useful tool.