International initiative to empower youth and women towards self-employment
Delhi Fashion Club with the support of Nagaland Government has announced the 1st edition of Nagaland Fashion Week in New Delhi, scheduled to be held somewhere in August or September this year. This announcement has been on Thursday at Press conference at Nagaland House in New Delhi in presence of Jyoti Kalash , Principle Resident Commissioner of Nagaland House, Delhi.
The state Governor and Chief Minister have appreciated and supported the event. The motive of the show is to celebrate culture, textile and tourism internationally with participation of not only designers from Nagaland but whole nation and world, giving local talents like models, designers and waivers an international exposure. The event will also be promoting handlooms and Handicraft industry of Nagaland for which NHHDC (Nagaland Handloom and Handicraft Corporation Ltd) has been collaborated.
The founder of Nagaland Fashion Week, Harshit Dhingaun, Delhi based known personality among youth as chairman of Delhi Fashion Club and Online Bollywood VJ.
Associate Creative Director , Delhi Fashion Club and Co- Founders are Ethiel Konyak, ex- super model is the regional head for Nagaland and Esther Arenla Jamir ,women entrepreneur and social worker will be taking care of Delhi operation as Delhi regional head.
On the announcement, Dhingaun said, NFW will be Nagaland’s and North-East India’s first premier international fashion week.
He also said it aims to promote the Naga culture, revive local textile , handicraft and handlooms, along with tourism promotion by creating more awareness about Naga and Northeast fashion culture globally through fashion shows , cultural activities, music and exhibition. The three-day event will be hosted in the fashion capital, Delhi giving it a national and international appeal.
Esther Arenla Jamir, Delhi regional head, Nagaland Fashion Week said the fashion week is the initiative to create employment hubs for job, weaning away the misguided youths, bridging and giving opportunity to the North East of India and to empower women. Delhi Fashion Club in collaboration with ‘Nagaland Handloom & Handicraft Development Corporation’ is persistently working to make this venture worthwhile for the benefit of the youths, she added.
Senior member of Delhi Fashion Club and advisor for NFW, Ratnadeep Lal , Chairman of IIFT ( International Institute of Fashion Technology ) said they would like to contribute by sponsoring 10 and more deserving and eligible students from Nagaland in field of fashion designing. He also informed that the scheme will be valid across India
“If Nagaland Governement support, we would like to take Nagaland students to Paris and London for international exposure and create job opportunities for them worldwide” he added.
He also said they will be giving 10-15% discount to all the students from Nagaland so that they can contribute in nation’s growth. The event was highly appreciated by Nationally acclaimed FDCI Designer Sonia Jetleey and Linda newmai , member of Central Board Of Film Cooperation ( CBFC ) who were also present at press conference.
Student unions from different tribes were also present toextend their support.
Applications are open and forms will be out offline and online on www.nagalandfashionweek.com supporting digital India.
EMN
