| | 8 8 DECEMBER 2018HIGHERReviewIN MY VIEWIN MY VIEWHOW TRAINING APPROACH IN FASHION DESIGN INSTITUTES ACROSS THE GLOBE HAS CHANGED OVER THE YEARSBy Rupal Dalal,Executive Director, JD Institute of Fashion TechnologyTo prepare graduates for the new age professional landscape, fashion design education is taking a re-alistic approach as design and design education are intricately linked. The future role of the designer, will not only be to simply create aesthetically appealing ob-jects, but to develop complex narratives through the fashion design process for capturing the overwhelmed audience During the 1960-1990's, the only educational institutes having concepts like dress and fashion in their title, were design school and technical training institutes. It was only in the last decade of the 20th century that various approach-es were integrated across disciplines and institutions, mak-ing it possible to talk about fashion studies.Fashion has always played an important role in defining personalities. It is a powerful tool of influence. For exam-ple, before the Supreme Court has scrapped Section 377 of the IPC, the 158-year-old colonial law which criminalises consensual gay sex, our students did a set inspired by the LGBTQ community and designed an athleisure collection, stating that the latest trends are all-gender. Such designs are encouraged to generate awareness, as it has the poten-tial to fundamentally transform the way people think about gender equality.Today's generation of students and future professional have the power to change social-cultural, environmental and economic, and political practices worldwide. Cited by many, as the most challenging and exuberating career op-tion in modern times, fashion designing and textile indus-try has led to innovation and new prospects in an existing sphere of garments. The environment we live in influences the style of clothing that people wear. Not just the physical geograph-ical or climatic, but rather the less tangible aspect of so-cial culture at that time. It is also an expression of identity Rupal DalalRupal Dalal serves as the Executive Director of JD Institute of Fashion Technology, which is an education division of JD Image Promotions Ltd. Supervision of all academic departments, curriculum development, academic development, pedagogic growth, academic systems planning and designing & academic quality assurance has been her share of developments at JD Institute of Fashion Technology. She is the Chair person of Board of examination, Kuvempu University. She has been awarded with "Smt.Sushila Agarwal Memorial Award" for her exemplary services to senior citizens for arranging fashion show every year. She believes that her contribution through education is a means to build the design future for the country.
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