The Next Leap In Indian Fashion Designing


by Khushi Chandel - Date: 2010-06-17 - Word Count: 361 Share This!

There is a lull in the indian fashion industry as it recovers from the effects of the economic recession. According to Patrice de Place, president of the artistic and education committee, Mod'Art International, a Paris-based design school, the fashion group in India should take this is as an opportunity to reflect on past trends and to chalk out a future direction for fashion education.

Elaborating further on opportunities and challenges, Indian fashion designers want to develop a signature global personality while retaining their Indianness and fashion design institutes must to facilitate this understanding. Often repeated and cliched as it could sound there is an attractive formula to reach this. To start with Indian fashion designers need to capitalise on traditional Indian costumes that have an sparkling appeal in the international fashion stage. The saree, for example, is one such garment. Upcoming fashion designers can be trained to come up with creative ways in which the saree can be draped. More and more contemporary embellishments and designs must also be explored.

In other words, the challenge broadly for upcoming Indian fashion designers is to identify established designs and find ways to make them globally appealing. Incidentally, this was the formula employed by Rei Kawakubo, a Japanese fashion designer, who catapulted Japanese clothing in the global fashion stage. Her creations - Comme des Garcons - were iconic as they spoke about a thinking that was rooted in her soil and time.

Indian fashion designers need to come up with creations that have a strong commercial quotient internationally. Creations, at one level, should grow to the practical sensibilities of a universal audience. It is just then that Indian fashion can have a ready and well-known global market. This is also one significant area of research and exploration that fashion design institutes can embark upon.

Place holds a Master in Common Law and Political Sciences, but he has always been associated with the luxury and fashion world. Is there a disconnect? "Fashion goes ahead of style and panache. It has an inextricable (though at times subtle) bond with society and is influenced by political and economic guidelines. My academic experience coupled with this belief has ready the journey enjoyable and fulfilling.

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