With the ever growing environmental concerns, the fashion industry has been taking active steps towards ensuring sustainable development. Showcasing their spring collection at the recently held India Design Week, Parul University students, Krima Patel, Kinjal Popat, Jeel Patel and Yukta Mehta made an outstanding display of fashion creativity. Held from the 29th to the 30th of April, at the CIDCO Exhibition Hall in Mumbai, India Design Week is one the nation’s most glamourous platforms of creative designing. The collection which they designed, resulted in their success by winning the title of “Best Innovative Debut Designers”.
Basing on the poetic theme “Peek a Boo”, the students made a mesmerising collection filled
with innovative surprises and modern expectations. Making full use of the upcycling method,
which is an eco friendly way of fabric designing, giving a much needed sustainable environmental appeal to the fashion industry. The collection, decorated with the most ravishing floral designs, and fabric techniques such as frills, tucks, cuts and slash, this collection, was truly a creative delight for the audience and leading the expert designers present during the exhibition. Resulting in them winning the title of Best Innovative Designers, a title expressing their fresh thinking and groundbreaking designs. For Parul University having their students at this grand national ramp is truly a mark of academic excellence, resembling a unique innovation based quality offered in their design courses.” When we began making our collection for the India Design Week, we wanted to make something extraordinary, so we simply put together all that we have learnt from our faculties, and applied it into context of the real world issues. So since environment is one of such issues we decided to design something that was eco friendly” said Ms Krima Patel. The students were under the mentoring of their professors, Ms Palak Patel along with Ms Swati Sohani. The students have been continuing their trail of excellence from their State award in
Ahmedabad to this national award in Mumbai.
“Seeing our students on such great platforms brings me great delight, as it serves as a testimony of how the education Parul University is imparting, is serving public utility. Encouraging such unique student talent and innovation is what we will continue doing, as it will allow the students the chance to explore all the endless possibilities n their abilities,” said Dr Parul Patel, managing trustee of Parul University. The students will go on to showcase their spring collection on the various stages and platforms to come.
