Soft Landing

The conference proceedings are published by the Design Education Forum of Southern Africa (DEFSA) on the following website: www.defsa.org.za

Fashion education is a popular programme which has gained worldwide recognition for nurturing talent and developing entrepreneurship among the students. In India, National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) has been offering various academic programs with a strong interdisciplinary base. It caters to the students of different academic backgrounds of science, commerce and arts; consists of multidisciplinary expertise in the form of teaching faculty from Fine Arts, Home Sciences, Design, Technology, Management etc. It provides ample scope for, interdisciplinary knowledge base; opportunities in new evolving design areas; portfolio working opportunities and self-employment. This paper is based on critical analysis of the various core dimensions of NIFT undergraduate interdisciplinary fashion design programs at Hyderabad center and focusing its multidisciplinary nature; student's performance at different stages; interdisciplinary curriculum composition in each semester and the new evolving areas for graduation projects and jobs. Data from annual reports, records, graduation brochures and other publications of NIFT was collected and analyzed. The subjects for the study were students, faculty and the undergraduate programme curriculum. It was observed that fashion design programs were more popular among science and commerce students than arts students; the performance of the multidisciplinary students is more or less same; during the graduation project itself students were catering to various design related fields and performing well as a result of the symphony of left-right brain and its application in curriculum and instruction. The study concluded that the students aspiring for fashion education coming from different academic backgrounds were getting equipped with the essential skills required to work in any design and related evolving fields.

Fashion Practice

Fashion Practice:, 2020

Bollywood is at once inspired by the fashion industry in India both thematically and professionally, and simultaneously inspires the fashion industry. This cross pollination between two industries means artists can cross into parallel artistic careers easily and draw from connections in one industry into the other. Economically this allows for both of these businesses to sustain each other at some level. This close relationship between the fashion and film world is a unique feature in India.

Museum Anthropology Review, 2010

Desire and Discipline is a book that sets out to describe a unique approach to work. Ten years of Designing Fashion at Iuav are covered in ten passages divided up into conceptual maps and visual essays that utilize images, ideas, projects and much more of what we have produced during these extraordinary years to recount a way of working, and a way of interpreting and teaching fashion. Each theme is associated with an essay, and each essay tackles one piece of a multifaceted whole made up of research and teaching linked to the design and culture of fashion - http://www.marsilioeditori.it/libri/scheda-libro/3172583/desire-and-discipline - edited by Maria Luisa Frisa, Saul Marcadent, Gabriele Monti - published by Marsilio Editori

The belief that practitioner knowledge is tacit and cannot be communicated through the traditional methods of academic writing and journal publication is a problem for the growing number of fashion researchers utilising practice-led methodologies. The main reason for this is that, until recently, the visibility of a discipline has been predominantly defined by academic publications in the field. One solution has been for researchers to adopt research methodology that utilises reflective practice to draw out practitioner knowledge and attempt to convert this knowledge to an explicit form. Alternatively, non-traditional research outputs are now considered equivalent to published research within areas such as art and design. However, a critical mapping of fashion research reveals that practice-led research in fashion is not yet adequately represented by either form of research outcome. This thesis proposes that continuing to focus on the differences between practice-led research and other fashion research, a dychotomic view of practitioner knowledge as either tacit or explicit, and an upward trend in process-driven methodology, are limiting the ability for practitioners to contribute to the continuing development of fashion as a discipline. The aim of this thesis is to develop a progressive approach to practice-led research methodology to enable practitioner knowledge of fashion to become more accessible, transferable and relevant to the emerging methodology of fashion as a material culture that connects two different ideas of the fashion system as either material or immaterial. A quantitative and qualitative mapping of fashion research, based on journal publications, non-traditional research outputs and an analysis of practice-led research exegeses, determines the current state of fashion as an emerging discipline. The mapping reveals that dominant methodologies for existing practice-led research are design methodologies. The results from this mapping inform an exploration of the potential for object or artefacts to encapsulate fashion knowledge through the method of object analysis as an object-based methodology used within other areas of fashion research. The results of this analysis enable the development of two models for practice-led fashion research. The first is a model of practitioner knowledge and theorises tacit knowledge as a hybrid space existing as a relationship between the different types of knowledge that exist in fashion practice. The second is a model of practitioner fashion research that incorporates existing design methodology but also responds to emerging fashion theory and methodology. Both models extend current understanding of fashion practice and contribute to developing the most effective strategy for communicating practitioner knowledge of fashion within the university environment.

Msc. (1995): Faculty of applied arts, University of Helwan, Cairo, Egypt. Entitle: "Effect of warp-ends densities distributions on some esthetical and physical properties of multi-layers woven fabric". Bsc. (1989): With a very good, "spinning, weaving &knitting Branch", from Helwan University, faculty of applied arts, Cairo, Egypt.