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There is a silence 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 society 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 additional on opportunities and challenges, Indian fashion designers must to develop a signature international uniqueness while retaining their Indianness and fashion design institutes must to facilitate this awareness. Often repeated and cliched as it could sound there is an attractive formula to achieve this. To begin 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 should also be explored.
In other words, the challenge essentially for forthcoming Indian fashion designers is to identify established designs and find ways to make them worldwide appealing. Incidentally, this was the formula employed by Rei Kawakubo, a Japanese fashion designer, who catapulted Japanese clothing in the worldwide fashion stage. Her creations Comme des Garcons were iconic as they spoke about a idea that was embedded 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 accrue to the practical sensibilities of a worldwide audience. It is simply then that Indian fashion can have a prepared and widespread global market. This is also one important area of research and exploration that fashion design institutes can get on 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 away from style and panache. It has an inextricable (though at times subtle) link with society and is influenced by political and economic guidelines. My academic education coupled with this belief has made the journey enjoyable and fulfilling.
