About Us

Footwear Design and Development Institute is an Institution of National Importance under FDDI Act 2017. FDDI is committed towards providing world class education in the fields of Footwear Design & Production, Fashion Design, Retail & Fashion Merchandise and Leather Goods & Accessories Design.establi by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Govt. of India, in 1986, the Footwear Design and Development Institute (FDDI) provides support to the Footwear , Leather Goods, fashion and Retail industries with 12 campuses situated at NOIDA, Fursatganj, Chennai, Kolkata, Rohtak, Chhindwara, Guna, Jodhpur, Ankleshwar, Banur, Patna and Hyderabad. To give the students hands-on training,

Area of Excellence

FDDI has established core interventions to bring under the functioning of CoE as focused area based upon critical factor analysis . In order to have key focus on individual basis each CoE is focus on specific areas and share resources with each other. The center wise key identified area identified areas are –upgradation and standardization of training, research, training materials development- FDDI NOIDA. Non leather footwear and products sector-FDDI, Rohtak, Leather goods and accessories sector –FDDI, Kolkata, Design development, high fashion product design, training and services –FDDI, Chennai with Hyderabad as extended CoE, Safety footwear, Personal Protective equipment (PPE), ethnic footwear- FDDI, Jodhpur, Retail sector, supply chain related to footwear and products –FDDI, Patna .

Research Capability and Focus Area

i. Higher Education & Training (Design, development, documentation & dissemination of Best practices). ii. Leather Fashion footwear and product (high end quality & fashion product segment) & product innovation iii. Design development and trend & fashion forecasting & material innovations iv. Technology/ process development in Leather Goods, Garments & Accessories v. Non-leather footwear & products manufacturing and development vi. Leather finishing techniques, component manufacturing and Footwear & product retailing and supply chains vii. Product differentiation & specialized footwear and products manufacturing & development- Start-ups and entrepreneurship & cluster development (B2B marketing for informal sectors)

Academic Facilities

FDDI has state of art technology & infrastructure for imparting education in the Footwear, Retail, Leather Goods and Fashion. The facilities includes digital class rooms, work shops, design center.