Textile Art of Sophie Standing
New Talent Comes to Fore in Gurgaon’s Textile Boom
A young textile designer from Gurgaon, Jayetha, started her business in 2013. She set up a small unit to manufacture women's garments. Within just one year, she grew from a small manufacturer to a supplier to high-end brands across the country. She is now also planning to sell through online shopping portals. Thanks to a robust environment for textile industry in the city, she had found her success.
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Textile Package to Be Implemented Through SROs
Federal Minister for Textile Industry Abbas Khan Afridi on Monday assured a textile delegation that the government would soon implement the textile package announced in the budget.
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Animals Made From Unbelievably Intricate Fabric Collages
The work of Sophie Standing is incredible. She uses her collection of fabrics from around the world to create very colorful interpretations of the animals of Africa. All the remains is for her to take on the painted turtle, at which point art will have lapped nature.
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Digital Prints Still Going Strong
Mahin Hussain, a textile design student from IVS, has an undying love for digital prints — be it her signature bags or the lawn collection that she recently launched. Speaking about her latest venture, Mahin Hussain Limited Edition Prints, which just wrapped up a one-day exhibiton of five prints, she says, “I believe Eid time is that shopping mode for people in which they are more inclined towards getting clothes instead of bags. I really wanted to translate my prints into a good Eid product.”
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Costume Designer Catherine Martin Weighs in on Fall 2014 Couture
If there are two sartorial worlds that have any truly shared threads, they are the whimsy and technique driven haute couture and costume design. For costume designer Catherine Martin, who has won both widespread acclaim and Academy Awards for her designs for The Great Gatsby and Moulin Rouge!, the intricacies and creativity within haute couture go hand-in-hand in her own work creating made-to-measure garments with a highly-skilled team.
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