The economic improvements in the Indian society along with greater emphasis and need of people towards their dressing sense has led to the emergence of fashion designing profession as one of the most sort after careers. The urban society has accepted the need and is highly influenced and inspired by the words 'fashion' and 'style'. Hence, pursuing a career in fashion designing seems not only a lucrative profession but for some inspired people it's a means to satisfy their creative requirement. They want something of their own – may be brand, name, fame and money!
The new, young, talented and ever creative generation has shown a huge interest in taking up courses in fashion institutes to enhance their creativity and get a first hand information on how the fashion world works. These young aspirants have their unique and creative style of dressing and believe in setting up trends rather then being trend followers

Indian Fashion Designers

Indian fashion designers have gone by leap and bounds in last so many years. Not just ethnic Indian styles – the usual Salwar-kurti, Churidaars, Saris and Lahengas – but they have very openly adopted and drawn inspiration from both Indian and western styles nowadays. Hence, Fashion admirers and followers in India have a wide variety to choose from the best of West and East. This fusion of fashion has led to another line of hybrid fashion statement evolve which can be easily seen on the ramps and the streets.

Some very successful and renowned Indian designers are Ritu Beri, Satya Paul, Ritu Kumar, Manish Arora, Sabyaschi Mukherjee, Manish Malhotra, Neeta Lulla, Rohit Bal, Hemant Trivedi, Shahab Durazi, J.J Walya, Shantanu & Nikhil and Krishna Mehta.