Fashion Journalism?

When I wrote a book of fashion, an erstwhile favourite aunt from Kolkata said, “Today our ancestors want to rise and spank you!”
I’m linking to an excellent post on Hindol Sengupta’s blog on what it’s like to be a fashion journalist today in India – link

NID gets into e- retailing.

Jharkhand will e-market its indigenous products with the help of National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad.
NID, an institute recognised by the ministry of science and technology and industrial research organisation, will help the state in hosting the e-marketing site.

The institute will also help assess the requirement of products and suggest designs to artisans. [...]

Design Plus

Nationa Institute of Design’s (NID) quarterly magazine — ‘Design Plus’ — has been adjudged India’s second best bilingual magazine for 2006 by the Ministry of Home.
Published in Hindi and English, five-year old ‘Design Plus’ had bagged the top honours from the Ministry of Home for two consecutive years (2002 and 2003) at the Western Region [...]

INTEX

A new trade fair INTEX – an international fabrics and accessories trade fair will be held from September 28th – 30th at the India Expo center in Greater Noida.
The event is supported by the Confederation of Indian Textile Industry (CITI), The Synthetic & Rayon Textiles Export Promotion Council (SRTEPC), The Cotton Textiles Export Promotion [...]

Textile News

Before the quotas went off, there was a lot of hype created to the extent that textiles would shoot up to 50 per cent growth.
An interview with Mr. Akhil Jinadal, President of the Welspun group and Mr. Rajendra Hinduja, executive director from Gokaldas Exports, rebut the notion that the textile industry is in a slump, [...]

Hiccups mar fashion week

The Indian fashion industry has arrived but is yet to take off. That was more or less the unanimous consensus at the end of the week long Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week
An article looking at the weaknesses faced by the fledgling fashion industry.