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Going into fashion
A lot of scope for the designer.
THE NATIONAL Institute of Fashion Technology's futuristic-looking new building is a maze. You can almost picture aspiring designers wandering around for days, brandishing their scissors and needles, looking for their classrooms and occasionally bumping into the elephantine pair of boots, big enough to house a small family, that decorate one of the many landings. An apt setting for the institute's creative 250 students, who are now exhibiting the work they did over their first internships.
``Summer Internship 2002,'' set up by the students of NIFT, is a presentation cum display where the students discuss the companies that they worked for during their two month internships and what they did while they were there. Three departments — Fashion Design, Garment Manufacturing Technology and Knitwear Design and Technology — participated in the exhibition.
The Chennai institute, which began in 1997, is one of the country's seven NIFTs. The NIFTs produce both designers and management personnel for fashion and textile houses. Jayanth, a student at the garment manufacturing technology department of NIFT says that he chose to study there because he was interested in management and ``the NIFT promises 100 per cent placement''.
Professor Bella Manoj concurs. She adds that there are plenty of opportunities available in Chennai for students of the institute. In fact, 60 per cent of them choose to stay on in the South, mainly in Chennai and Tirupur, to work and gain hands-on experience. Besides working for designers and garment manufacturers NIFT graduates also freelance and design outfits for the film industry.
By Shonali Muthalaly
Photo: N. Balaji
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