Fashion in India, Simplicity and Opulence - Modernity and Tradition

Textiles are everywhere... Textiles and fashion are India!  It is a huge part of Indian tradition but with influence of western culture on India, India is pushing back with it's influence in the world of fashion. This industry is vast, it is of a scale that is hard to imagine but it is safe to say that India's fashion and textile industry is larger in terms of production and scale than the whole of europes combined. Its finished products are of the highest quality with many being manufactured on behalf of western stores such as Benneton and Primark. 

India is the third largest producer of cotton, the second largest producer of silk and the fifth largest producer of man-made fibres in the world. India also possesses large number of highly skilled human workers and has among the lowest labour costs in the world.

   

Whilst we were in India we visited a vast array of companies, schools and organisations involved in producing some of the most amazing works we had ever seen for sale on the open market.  What came across is that the fashion industry is changing at an amazing rate at this moment in time and to be involved in any part of the industry at this moment in time is extremely exciting.  Students themselves where the driving force behind many of these evolutions and revolutions in design with a very direct focus on producing "fusion" works of "east meets west" 

With over one billion people living and working in India and with it's economy on the increase at a rate of 8% a year this trend of fashion as a growth market shows no sign of stopping anytime soon.  

The emergence, resurgence and resurrection of India as a global economic superpower

 

India is on a fast track to becoming the third largest economy whilst today some elements of its autarkic past remain India is now looking and heading in a global direction.  India was the country above all others that was most resilient and has rebounded the most quickly from the recent global economic crisis due in no small part to it's strong domestic demand.  By joining us on the ICS India Experience you will gain access to some of India's top academics who will be able to guide you easily through the complexities of the Indian business world where tradition and modernity are both embraced and utilised to the countries obvious success...

In the mean time enjoy the amazing video courteousy of TED Talks, in which Hans Rosling - A proffessor of global health and a statistical guru explains the worlds economic trends and the explosion of both India and China upon the worlds economic scene.

 

India Photo Gallery

We are pleased to announce that the ICS India Experience photo gallery is now online and keep coming back as we will be adding content to this daily.  Image Gallery

Reflections on India - Marwah Studios Visit

I have been back here in the UK now for nearly two weeks and yet India is definately still with me and I am missing the colour, vibrancy and general mass of activity that defined a lot of what India is about.  Being back in the UK and reflecting on our visit, travels and experiences I came across the selection of photos from our visit to Marwah studios and within them was a great shot of Sandeep Marwah the studios founder and director.  

Mr Marwah was a whirlwind of a man so passionate about film, tv and media that it was almost impossible to get him to talk about anything other than this and his other passion, education and social enterprise.  Marwah studios is a mini-bollywood in Delhi, it has a university attached to it as well allowing students to learn in a real live environment and it's policy is completely hands on rather than the theoretical approach that we take in the west.  

Sandeep Marwah is actually the founder of the area of Noida in Delhi which is now affectionally known as Film City, amazingly he is also responsible for more short films than anyone else in the world approximately 1500 and has association with 2500 TV shows, 70 feature films.

Noida where film city was started used to be wasteland and slums this has been re-developed however people where not displaced in it's creation and Marwah studios and they have built school facilities to educate the children of their locality to help lift them out of their current social situation.

During our visit we of course had to take part in a lecture about the film industry and films in India, the lecture was fantastic and covered so many aspects of movie theory that certainly I had never even dreamt about.  After one lecture it was easy to see how students learn so much so quickly and why this is the only educational establishment in the world that has a 100% employment rate of it's graduates.

Steven who was on our trip had studied media and marketing at university said...

“I have never experienced a lecture like it, I studied media at university and none of my lectures were never like that!” 

Richard Deans