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FDCI, FFI agreed to do one fashion week per season |
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New Delhi: Two fashion camps of Delhi named Fashion Design Council of India (FDCI) and Fashion Foundation of India (FFI), have finally come up with a final deal, as per which just one fashion week per season will be held as against two.
Now onwards, government supported Fashion Design Promotion Council (FDPC), headed by Vijay Singh will be at the helm of affairs.
Singh said, "The objective is to overgrow the industry by creating infrastructure, by promoting young talent and by taking the brand India fashion international."
Under the new plan, the Delhi Fashion Week and FFI will be withdrawn. In the meantime, FDCI members will have to become members of the FDPC to participate in forthcoming fashion weeks.
Singh added, "All designers will become a part of FDPC and they would be given a chance to show case their talent in upcoming fashion weeks."
The FDPC body will have a governing council of 15 members. Designers Tarun Tahiliani, Rohit Bal and JJ Valaya are some names proposed for this council.
While Sumeet Nair who headed the FFI has been roped in to organise the event, FDCI`s top man Sunil Sethi is likely to be FDPC`s director general.
Nair said, "Prodigy Fashion is a company which has been engaged by FDPC so we are away from it and they if there is again politics, which I hope there isn`t then we will be away from it."
Designer Nikihl Mehra stated, "Are we looking at corporatisation of the industry? Or will there be certain subsidies coming in from the government? And the Textile Ministry supporting Indian handicrafts?"
(Posted on : 01/07/2009)
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