Pearl Academy of Fashion and Northern India Section of Textile Institute (Regd) are jointly organizing an International Conference on the theme 'SUSTAINABILITY IN THE TEXTILE FASHION INDUSTRY CHAIN: CROP TO SHOP" on 28-29 November 2008 at Siri Fort Auditorium, New Delhi.
The fashion and creative industries occupy a vast secondary and tertiary value chain stretching up to the consumer, spanning heterogeneous businesses in textiles and other finished materials, fashion merchandise creation, manufacture, marketing, retail, styling and appearance. This chain was valued at USD 1.3 trillion in 2004. (Mark Tungate, Fashion Brands, 2005). It is globally integrated and has been growing at a steady pace; its momentum is not anticipated to let up in the foreseeable future.
The increasing global consumer interest in and demand for fashion has in recent times moved parallel with an intensifying concern regarding its unguarded consequences for the planet’s future. As elsewhere, sustainability has acquired focus in professional debate, business confabulation, and, further, it is best epitomized by its inroad into higher education curriculum in western higher education. This again is globally evident, what with organic and green movements among consumers, the proliferation of serious scholarship on the subject, heavy investment in research and development and the concerted international and national endeavors to take note of the groundswell and redirect policy orientation and dispensation towards achievement of environmental and ecological goodwill and sustainable balance.
Fashion professionals and business persons are gradually becoming aware of the looming scenario and are gearing up, slowly but surely, to address the emerging issues. There are probably a host of concerns which engage designers, merchandisers, production and marketing managers, retailers, technologists, specialists and several others to question current directions and to seek answers for new ones which may assure planet safety and survival, while delivering equity to mankind.
As a developing country with an aspiring consumption drive and vast untapped markets, the Indian scenario appears largely divorced from these new sensitivity to practice, although a fringe intellectual trend and a weak policy posture is evident. It is none too soon to give due attention where due. The conference aims to provoke Indian and regional professional, academic and business audiences to the emerging thought and to align them with this new trend elsewhere in the world.
- Mr. Aloke Goyal, Chairperson
- Dr.S.K. Chaudhuri
- Mr. A.K.G. Nair
- Mr. Vijay Bhalla
- Dr.Vinod Shanbhag
- Mr. Dilip Gianchandani
- Mr. Avinash Gupta
- Prof. Nien Siao
- Dr. Tarun Panwar
- Mr. Kuldeep Kr. Sharma
- Mr.A.K.G. Nair, Chairperson
- Mr. Vijay Bhalla
- Dr. Vinod Shanbhag
- Dr. S.K. Chaudhuri
- Mr. Dilip Gianchandani
- Mr. Avinash Gupta
- Mr. Kuldeep Kr. Sharma
- Mr. Rajiv Girotra
Mr. Radha Krishnan / Ms. Sheeba Johnson
Tel.: 91.11.4141 7690.
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