Apparel show by NID focused on human stories

The 'Born from Cotton' apparel show organised by the National Institute of Design (NID) focused on the display of human stories through movement and music. Students of NID, based in Gandhinagar, showcased their creative designs at the innovative show for apparel. The 'Born from Cotton' project is an integral part of an academic classroom design project at NID.

NID as part of its curriculum provides opportunities to its students to explore diverse, real-life situations by collaborating with professional bodies and mutually supporting live classroom projects. Such an approach prepares the students to understand and deal with various scenarios and nurtures them for a variety of professional experiences in their future design careers.

At the fashion event, as many as 13 master students of design and apparel design of NID developed a collection of quality apparel suitable for local and global high-fashion markets understanding the fluidity, drapeability, silky touch, breathability comfort and eco friendliness properties of the cupro fibre and fabrics.

Over 15 undergraduate students of NID's textile design course displayed their creation of printed textiles and surfaces with a focus on various dyeing and printing techniques on Asahi Bemberg fabrics. The collections at the fashion event explored the Asahi Bemberg fabrics which are produced in Surat by using the Asahi Bemberg yarn that is only manufactured by Asahi Kasei in Japan.

The show that concluded recently was sponsored by Asahi Kasei and included the participation of around 300 people from various areas of textile industry such as designers, weavers and academicians.