Best Footwear courses

It is often said – judge a man by his shoes. And so be it! To think of it, you can actually be put off if you see someone wearing unpolished, dirty, torn or unshapely footwear. Be it shoes (formal and informal), sports shoes, sandals, chappals, juttis, bellies, stilettoes, or any other footwear, the right one surely defines the persona of the person wearing it.

While in earlier days, footwear was simple and minimal, in design and texture and materials used, with time, the same became elaborate and experimental. It was more about making a fashion statement with footwear than just clothes. And so, with the emergence of fashion institutes, footwear courses became an important part of the curriculum. And footwear course acquired its own identity with elaborate footwear design courses in institutes that were promoting and teaching fashion.

Many premier fashion institutes sprang up all across the country and some like FDDI made a special name for themselves. Providing a bachelors’ degree and even a masters in these specialized courses like footwear design was a very new field for the young college going crowds. But because fashion grew and gradually developed into an industry, footwear, an integral part of the fashion world, too became important.

While earlier on when the course was introduced, it was not much sought after. Fashion – that was defined by apparel and styling – ruled the roost. But soon, footwear design course began to gain precedence. It was a specialization, after all.

While only a few colleges and institutes offered the course when it was initially introduced, soon some major institutes across the country began to highlight the course and it has since become much sought after.

Gaining inspiration from the likes of Jimmy Choo, the fashion fraternity made footwear as important in fashion as apparels, accessories and the rest. And with the introduction of computers, designing became fun. It would no longer be limited to working with a pencil and colour pencils to put a design on paper. The computer tools with their plethora of options and several software made footwear designing as any other – interesting and exciting.

At FDDI, students get a chance to learn footwear designing from talented teachers and learn to innovate and create under experienced supervision. The footwear design courses here encourage the youth to experiment with the weirdest in design.