Graduation Show: Fashion Design & Knitwear Design, NIFT, Mumbai 2011

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pictures reproduced with the permission of the photographer Shashi.R. Patel.

Online Shopping and its Future in context of Garment Retailing.

The world is moving at a fast pace, people are more connected to each other thanks to the revolution in the communication world.

The shopping habits are changing and more people are willing to pay for a product online than the number of people a decade ago.

This change in human spending behaviour is happening globally and is going to disrupt the existing business model of retailing sooner or later but this change is certain.

Different clothing brands are offering option of online shopping from their well designed portals and websites.

Retail chains are collecting vast amonut of data about the customers through different loyalty, membership and discount programs. A stiff competition is going on between the stores to collect larger amount of customer data in their database.

But there is a lack of a strong mechanism to use this data for the further enhancement of shopping experiences and increasing the sales and brand value of the store.

The percentage of online purchase as compared to traditional purchase is increasing in this world and is carried out through the portals of the garment retailers.

The present model is designed in which a person is required to be a member of the store, s/he logs into his/her account, selects thr commodities from a large database that is tough to browse, most of the time the customer doesn't come through the products s/he is looking for. The customer then puts the order and the product is delivered.

The fundamental flaw with this system is that product discovery mechanism is not strong and the customer seems unsatisfied after the browsing resulting in a bad image of the brand and resulting in non-sales.

If by some mechanism, this experience is enhanced for the end consumer and considering these sales as not a 1 time transaction, it could increase the consumer loyalty.

Now consider a situation in which a customer is an avid shopper and does most of his shopping online, he spends a lot on his shopping and is willing to buy more products if he could find the product he is looking for.

Now the retail chain has an oppurtunity to tap the potential of this field.
Lets assume the retail chain starts collecting user shopping behavior data, analyses it and looks for a shopping pattern and customer's Thinking and his likes/dislikes towards a commodity.

An algorithm is developed by the store that could compare and find some sort of similarity between two products on the basis of type of fabric, silhoutte, colour, shade, style, fit and blah blah blah.

Now analysing the past shopping history, the store could develop a graph of customer's interest, now the next step would be integration of the recommendation system with this intrest graph.

Recommending and displaying the customer products that have a level of similarity with the past shopping history, one example could be if a customer buys trousers with narrow fit most of the times, the recommendation system could display trousers with narrow fit more than any other fit.

Now this personalised suggestion would vary from one consumer to other and would increase the probabilty of the sales.

But this system also has a flaw, if the whole shopping experience is personalised (100% personalisation), it would turn out to be a small world for the consumer with little choices and would lead to balakanisation, the personalised experience should be tailored such that it adds the external shopping enviornment, international trends, what's new in fashion and these stuff that gives a balanced experience (e.g., 50% personalised, 50% random or external).

There is one more factor that affects the shopping experience of a consumer that is his/her social graph, e.g., friends and family.
The customer asks for a suggestion from them.

The system could add a social layer to it with the help of social networks. The system could be developed such that the customer could ask for feedback about a particular product of his choice from his social circle.

Friends could vote for it and comment about the style, this could in turn bring in more interest data about the person voting a product.

The personalised shopping experience would make the product discovery mechanism simplified and  one fring benefit of this system would be contextual discovery from tha addition of social layer to it which would in turn boost sales.

Its all about shopping experiences and if it could be enhanced it would lead to better market value and market share for the brand.

Submissons at NIFT

Ask a NIFTian about a thing having a "Time Period" of 4-5 day?
And you are certainly gonna get the answer: SUBMISSION.
It happens every 4-5 day from the start of the semester to the end of it.

On days of submission, it is a common sight, guys running from Classroom to stationary, from Computer labs to Library.

A Chaos.

But why the hell on earth these submissions happen, because this is the System of Evaluation here.

Many a times, students are tension free, everything is done days before, they are only supposed to go to Academics area and get their assignment books signed and sometimes the situation is such that the students get so much feared about the results and its consequences on their SGPA.


BACKGROUND ANALYSIS ( Why these 2 different types of situation arises?):

1. Submission work done days before time, it happens because you are not supposed to apply brain in these assignments, it is to be copied from sources like Internet and Library books. Most of the people would be done with it ( 'most' because some guys don't move their Fingers until they are kicked in their *ss).

Some of the guys would come out with a lot of content just because they know how to mine hell lot of Data on Internet and some would come with a lot of aesthetics on their document thanks to their creativity or that of the people around him/her.

How evaluation of all these documents is done is a different subject but how much understanding has been developed is a question that even the faculties know and i think everybody agrees with me.
I don't know why we do such assignments (do you know) ?

2. submission work not complete until 4 O'clock on submission day, The assignment to be done is never clearly understood by the student, or it is continuously changed and modified by the faculty.

In this case, the student doesn't know what to do, either he is confused or he has no idea about that particular topic, this happens a lot.

He/She tries his/her best to know and understand it, finally it is deciphered by someone intelligent enough in the class, the class follow it like a flock of bird going after the Head of the flock, different trick and tips are applied, more precisely JUGAAD is done.

The class tries his/her best to complete it until the continuous modification is halted by a Bunk and finally a submission happens.

Sometimes the second problem arises because everybody is not good enough at SCAVENGER HUNT because you have to come up with such ridiculous things in your Swatch File that you would not come up with even if you go to the Remotest location on the Earth.

RELATIONSHIP STATUS OF MY CLASSMATES

What Facebook Profile Says: (PUBLIC DATA)

ABHISHEK GAUTAM - Single

ANU MANDAL - Is in a Relationship With STANLEY GEORGE.

ARUSHI KHANDELWAL - Single

ASHUTOSH KUMAR - Single

ASHUTOSH VATSA - Single

CHETNA SINGH - Single

GARIMA KUMARI - Is in a Relationship With RAJEEV KUMAR

JATIN SHARMA - HIDDEN RELATIONSHIP STATUS

Kr. PRAMENDRA SINHA - Single

MOHAN PEGU - Single

NIKHIL CHAUHAN - HIDDEN RELATIONSHIP STATUS

NIYATI RAI - Is in a Relationship with NIKIT KANDWAL

PANKAJ PATHAK - Single

PAVAN POWAR - Is in a relationship with RICHA GUPTA

PRATEEK AGARWAL - Single

PRIYA GAUTAM - HIDDEN RELATIONSHIP STATUS

RAJEEV KUMAR - Is in a relationship with GARIMA KUMARI

S.K.PEGU - Single

SUSHANT KUMAR - Single

SHIKHAR VAIDYA - HIDDEN RELATIONSHIP STATUS

SHILPI - HIDDEN RELATIONSHIP STATUS

STANLEY GEORGE - Is in a Relationship with ANU MANDAL

YASMIN KAKAR - HIDDEN RELATIONSHIP STATUS

KUNAL KUMAR - Single

Wanna ask JATIN, NIKHIL, PRIYA, SHIKHAR, SHILPI and YASMIN ,
Why it is HIDDEN to even Classmates?

Kyon chuppa rakha hai?


Wanna Ask ABHISHEK, ARUSHI, ASHUTOSH K., CHETNA, PARAM, MOHAN, PANKAJ, PRATEEK, SUSHANT, ESKE and KUNAL,
Why are you people lying?

Kyon bhai kyon?


If you all feel that correcting your relationship status would left me as the only Eligible Bachelor,
Don't care about that.


Mujhe koi problem nahi hain, Being the only one Single in the class.

:D

NIFT ADMISSIONS 2011 - Results Declared

National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) has declared results of the written examination which took place on February 20, 2011.


Candidates can check the results by visiting the link
http://specialtest.in/nift2011/resultnift.asp

This is the official website of NIFT for results. 

Candidates have to check the results by entering their respective roll numbers and Form no or Date of Birth.

NIFT has its centers throughout India in the cities of 

• New Delhi, 
• Kolkata, 
• Mumbai, 
• Hyderabad, 
• Gandhinagar, 
• Bangalore, 
• Chennai, 
• Patna, 
• Raebareli, 
• Shillong, 
• Kannur 
• Bhopal.
• Bhuvaneshwar and
• Jodhpur

NIFT provides full time degree courses and it offers both bachelor degree of four years and master degree of two years in Technology, Design, Technology and Management.

Candidates are advised to refer to NIFT website www.nift.ac.in for detailed information.

Anyone who has qualified the NIFT written entarance exam held on 21st feb 2010, for Undergraduate ( UG ) course either from Design ( B.DES ) or from Technology ( B.F.TECH ) background,

 
and need suggestions or have queries or seek help about the upcoming situation test or counselling, do contact me on my cell no. 09967958564 or e-mail me ataashutoshvatsa@gmail.com

Sincerity

After a long time, i am feeling like writing something, nothing as

such is happening in the surroundings, so there are no new updates,
everyone in the class is busy completing his/her skirts, drafting the
final pattern and all those other last moment works.

But one thing is there which differentiates our tech batch from all
others in the college is the commitment and sincerity of students
towards their studies and the focus towards the carrier.

I had been in the school and i never saw such an environment where
everyone is working and giving a neck to neck fight to each other.

During the school days, some of the intelligent brains were seen
discussing chemical reactions and physical forces and principles of
Pythagoras even during the lunch.

A bunch of students were seen wandering here and there even during
classes, bunking the class and hiding themselves from authorities and
planning to blast crackers somewhere around the campus.

A third kind of group was also there, who were somewhat in between
these two groups, they were having some sense of sincerity either
because of parents fear or because of own interest, they were a bridge
in between these groups.

The sincerity obviously returns gifts when results of exams were
announced, but it never affected the group of people to change the way
they think and the mix of people were always present.


But here at NIFT, the situation is entirely different from the school
days, my batch is the one most sincere batch and i think the faculties
in the department and our Course Coordinator also thinks the very
same.

Each and every guy is attentive towards his/her study, the attention
sheet shows no red marks and i think at this point of time if all the
students bunks all the classes they are not going to be in problem.

Everyone is complete with each and every work, no re-scheduling of
assignment dates had ever taken place, each and everyone is performing
in the class, most of the guys and girls are punctual in coming to
class, this is because of the desire of everybody to top the class and
grab the rank 1.

The commitment of this class is really to be praised.

Kudos to

2009-13 FASHION TECHNOLOGY BATCH.

THE SWAN, CROW AND THE DOVE

COMING SOON

MY QUALITIES AS TOLD BY MY CLASSMATES

1. Scientific,
2. Hard Working,
3. Intelligent,
4. Intelligent (once again),
5. Sincere,
6. Sida sa hai,
7. Very Helpful,
8. Calculative,
9. Intelligent ( once again),
10. Studious,
11. On your face & simple, good,
12. Funny Boy,
13. Nice Boy,
14. IITian,
15. Intelligent, good, Well mannered,
16. Laughs when look Frustrated, Frustrates when everyone Laughing,
17. Simple & Nice.

GOD KNOWS I HAVE THESE QUALITIES OR NOT, ANYWAYS THANKS FRIENDS, YOU PEOPLE WOULD ALWAYS HAVE A SPECIAL PLACE IN MY HEART.

ME AND MY CLASSMATES

ABHISHEK GAUTAM - Small Kid from KANPUR, thinks as if he is Ajay Devgan of OMKARA.

ANU - Girl from BOKARO, laughs a lot, good friend and good at heart.

ARUSHI KHANDELWAL - Small girl from RAJASTHAN, good friend, helping.

ASHUTOSH KUMAR- Guy from LUCKNOW, Fan of SHAKTIMAAN, hard working, Tells very funny stories.

ASHUTOSH VATSA - Its me, to know more about me mail me at aashutoshvatsa@gmail.com

CHETNA SINGH - Beautiful girl from JAIPUR, slimmest girl of my class, good at Imitating DOG's voice and many more, complex nature.

GARIMA KUMARI - Beautiful girl from PATNA, tallest girl in my class, hard working, lots of attitude.

JATIN SHARMA- Mature guy from MUMBAI, Witty, lots of knowledge on almost any topic, ideal person, is always complete with his works.

KR. PRAMENDRA SINHA - Guy from NALANDA, hardcore fan of his city, lots of imagination power, thinks beyond the boundries of this world.

MOHAN PEGU- Guy from ASSAM, great singer, a very good nature person with a strong body build.

NIKHIL CHAUHAN- Jaat from MEERUT, sports person, intellectual, if would have not joined NIFT would be a great physicist, good logical skills, but above all this a big big, ladkibaaz.

NIYATI RAI- Good-hearted girl from BHAGALPUR, helps everyone, is very emotional, loves Ice-Cream a lot, was our CLASS REPRESENTATIVE during 2nd semester and is very possessive about her position/respect in class.

PANKAJ PATHAK- My roomie and a guy with lots of attitude from SAHIBGANJ, can't hear a word against his girlfriend, fun-loving, a pure veggie, experiments a lot with himself, highly dedicated towards his work, would never ever forgive a person who has ever hurt him in his life. Helps me and RAJAT a lot in making a game of SUSHANT.
PRATEEK AGARWAL- The brainy guy from LUCKNOW, has an intellect face, is topper of the class in consecutive semester, is an ideal and BHAIYA of TECH juniors in college, sometimes becomes aggressive, fun-loving and frustrates when someone says him to be wrong.
PRIYA GAUTAM- The most silent girl of the college from LUCKNOW, could be identified by earphones in her ears, INTERNET LAB is her favorite destination in college, focussed towards studies, does every work neatly and always reaches a minute late than others.
PAVAN POWAR- Sporty guy from MUMBAI, hard-core football fan ( CHELSEA FAN), is a PAID football player for some club ( i can't remember the club's name), fun loving, has never combed his hairs, runs behind hot girls but is unsuccessful all the time, is a master of rating girls on the basis of their looks.
RAJEEV KUMAR- Guy from SONPUR, was a hosteler till 10th at OAKGROVE SCHOOL, Masoori, is fun-loving, humorous, answer for every situation and was the only boy from our class who was in a relationship with a girl at NIFT in 1st year.
SUSHANT KUMAR- Guy from NALANDA, is nice to everyone, displays his attraction for gadgets and girls in public, works hads but slowly, is a good cook and hope that he gets selected for Administrative service exams.
SHIKHAR VAIDYA- Guy from BHOPAL, a very good orator, focused towards his objectives, doing a lot at a little age, gets caught whenever he cheats faculties (may god wish him good luck), is enjoying his relationship.
SHILPI- girl from BOKARO, very attentive towards studies, works a lot, is an Ex- of someone in my class only,a favorite of most of the faculties.
STANLEY GEORGE- Guy from ROORKEE, good at heart, has no control over himself, seems sleepy all the time in the class, has good relationship with FC seniors (2 years senior Batch), very good presentation skills, strictly needs to give up his addiction (you could understand STANLEY)

YASMINE KAKAR- girl from DELHI with a BLACKBERRY in her hands, talks a lot, frank, breaks ice with unknowns in minutes of time, good at heart, fun-loving, gets frustrated when unable to do work in first attempt, updates FB status i never understood.
KUNAL KUMAR- guy from DARJEELING, a great body-built, piercing in ears, could be seen riding AVENGER near college campus, fun-loving and a supporter of doing the least possible work ( I Support You)

DISCLAIMER : ALL THE ADJECTIVES USED HERE ARE PUBLIC PERCEPTION AND NOT THAT OF AUTHOR, THE AUTHOR IS NOT RESPONSIBLE IF THE ADJECTIVES DON'T MATCH YOUR PERSONALITY.

IF DISSATISFIED WITH THE CONTENT ABOUT YOURSELF PLEASE CONTACT THE AUTHOR.

MY PHOTOSHOP WORK

My Computer Application assignment on Adobe Photoshop CS4 in Semester - 2

POSTER

INVITATION

NIFT, MUMBAI CENTRE

Mumbai, India's commercial capital, and easily the most accessible city in this country, is the perfect gateway to Fashion World in the country with its proximity to Bollywood and Fashion Hub.


NIFT Mumbai, due to the presence of glamour world, major national, International Fashion Brands and Retail houses provides an ideal environment for fashion students in terms of Industry exposure, class room learnings, projects and placements.

NIFT Mumbai provides state-of-the-art infrastructure in terms of class room equipments, computer labs and class rooms. Apart from the academic infrastructure, the students have been provided with a recreation centre, world class Gymnasium and Indoor & Outdoor sports facility. 


Mumbai is known as the city that never sleeps. NIFT, Mumbai centre was established in the year 1995 and is presently located at Kharghar, Navi Mumbai. 


NIFT Mumbai has attained national repute for its pre-eminent status as an industry oriented state-of-the-art training centre and has reached the pinnacle of academic excellence and thought leadership on different fashion platforms.

My Natal/Birth Chart

This birth chart shows the positions of the planets of Ashutosh Vatsa.

The sun represents vitality, a sense of individuality and outward-shining creative energy.

Sun in Libra

He has a great need to be part of a group. He likes to mix with people and looks for partnerships. He likes and respects justice. He approves of society's values. He is level-headed and assimilates quickly.

Weaknesses: does not think enough, he is frivolous. A dilettante in love. He is easily swayed by group pressure.

Libra ascendant Aries

Sun in VI

Not much social ambition, he wants to work in the medical environment and progress step by step.

-78 Opposition Sun - Ascendant

He has a lot of ambition, but is pretentious, vain and does not realize when his schemes are too ambitious, and therefore unattainable.

The moon represents a reaction, unconscious pre-destination, and the self-image.

Moon in Scorpio

Courageous, brave, independent, not a fearful nature. The type of man who is attracted to sensual erotic women.

Weaknesses: excesses of pleasures of the flesh, sensual delights and sensuality.

Moon in VIII

He has a tendency to bad dreams. Possibly has romantic phantasies. Is interested in the occult.

62 Sextile Moon - Venus

He is gracious, sweet and gay. He likes pleasure and entertainment, but also the Arts. He needs tenderness, loves and wants children. He appreciates home life in a comfortable atmosphere.

98 Sextile Moon - Saturn

He controls his feelings. He has a sense of duty, of self-esteem and is prudent. He can concentrate on a long-term task, manual or intellectual. He perseveres and is serious in everything he does.

143 Conjunction Moon - Pluto

He wavers between a rich and successful love life and social success. He has difficulty in succeeding in both. Almost always, the choice comes down on an ideal emotional life.

Mercury represents communication, Cartesian and logical spirit.

Mercury in Virgo

He discusses, deduces and judges. He reasons logically and accurately.

Weaknesses: he is easily irritable and nervous. He tells off and criticizes. He is impulsive and manic.

Mercury in VI

Medical profession. Serviceable and generous nature. Meets their soul sister at work, or (if not) through family contacts.

106 Conjunction Mercury - Venus

He looks on the bright side of life: he is gay, agreeable, optimistic, sociable. He likes to speak and write, and does both with charm and artistry. His intellectual pleasures are influenced by his feelings. He is amorous and sensual. He likes beauty, the Arts but also travelling.

-115 Square Mercury - Mars

While his spirit is lively, it is also cunning. He often acts without thinking, he throws himself into things and exaggerates - and this can bring certain problems. He is nervous and irascible. He can develop others' ideas, while they hesitate - he never does: he presses on.

57 Trine Mercury - Saturn

139 Trine Mercury - Neptune

He can put down in writing everything that his imagination and intuition dictates.

116 Sextile Mercury - Pluto

He has a great sense of observation and quickly grasps the situation. He is crafty, subtle and critical.

Venus represents an interest for emotions and values, exchange and sharing with others.

Venus in Virgo

Gives help to sick and old people. He is very devoted, does not show emotions: he is prudish and never lets himself go, either through fear of ridicule or through fear of not being loved in return as much as he loves. Always suspects the feelings of others. He is therefore sometimes too undemonstrative, so the other (thinking she is not loved) will leave.

Weaknesses: likes to flirt and provoke. He is perfectly in command of his own feelings, which often lack passion or force. His love is never for free but must automatically bring a bonus, be it only an intellectual pleasure.

Venus in VI

He is devoted to sick or poor people. Certainly works in a medical or social setting, where he meets their partner, who is a great help professionally.

69 Trine Venus - Saturn

He has a good grasp of reality and of duty. He is thrifty, reserved and does not show off. He likes truth and justice. In love, his sentiments are sincere and deep, he never plays false. He is, of course, faithful in love and friendship. He can love a much older person and appreciates his intelligence and good sense.

Mars represents the desire for action and physical energy.

Mars in Gemini

He speaks a lot, likes to spar verbally, discussions, disputes, polemic, criticism.

Weaknesses: he scolds and declaims. Words can be bitter and aggressive.

Mars in III

Lively spirit, alert and ingenious but sarcastic, critical, provocative. He is quarrelsome. Expresses himself easily, does what he wants: success is at the end of the road. He is capable and acts quickly.

104 Sextile Mars - Jupiter

He has a good sense of organization, he is jovial, frank and sincere. He is full of dynamism and over-abundant energy. He loves life and takes all it has to offer. He likes sports and the outdoor life. He is successful professionally and emotionally. He usually has lots of children.

Jupiter represents expansion and grace.

Jupiter in Leo

He is ambitious, wants to impose himself, to be someone, while nonetheless having sincere and pure feelings.

Weaknesses: pride, haughtiness, arrogance.

Jupiter in V

He likes games and distractions. He has passion which lights up his days. He is lucky in love, but also professionally, with pleasant working conditions and duties. He loves his children and gets much enjoyment from them.

Saturn represents contraction and effort.

Saturn in Capricorn

He is scrupulous, honest, correct, worthy and respectable.

Weaknesses: melancholy, sullenness, disappointment and bitterness.

Saturn in X

His up-bringing is rigorous, severe. His professional life is all-important. He is serious, methodical, persevering. He wants to have power, to succeed and has all the necessary qualities to achieve this objective, by taking one step at a time.

112 Conjunction Saturn - Neptune

His plans are realized in a methodical fashion, he works hard to achieve success.

102 Sextile Saturn - Pluto

He perseveres, achieves his projects through hard work.

Uranus represents individual liberty, egoistic liberty.

Uranus in Capricorn

A great battler. He has so much power, that one thinks nothing can defeat him. His mission in society, in the world means everything to him.

Uranus in X

He must have an independent career, with no routine, which satisfies his need to move around, travel and which must in particular have an element of risk attached. He is eccentric.

76 Conjunction Uranus - Neptune

Neptune represents transcendental liberty, non-egoistic liberty.

Neptune in Capricorn

He is discerning, wise and sensible.

Neptune in X

He has great ambition, which obsesses him. He always wants to check work already done, he is terrified of being less than perfect.

Pluto represents transformations, mutations and elimination.

Pluto in Scorpio

Great sexual activity.

House I is the area of self identity. The ascendant is a symbol of how one acts in life. It is the image of the personality as seen by other, and the attitude that one has of life.

Libra ascendant Aries

Ascendant In Aries

Social success thanks to his talents, good results at school.

House II is the area of material security.

House II in Taurus

Social success will be acquired by laborious, long work that will require a lot of patience.

House III is the area of social and intellectual learning.

House III in Gemini

He adapts well to any kind of change, and enthusiastically. He doesn't like monotony. Will need to move house because of work reasons.

House IV is the area of action and emotion.

House IV in Cancer

Likes family life, children have a large place in his heart. Heis by nature calm, affectionate, delicate and tender.

House V is the area of self-security.

House V in Cancer

He will often be in love, up until the day he meets the chosen one. Then, no more flirting - the only goal: to start a family, as many kids as possible.

House VI is the area of learning by material transaction.

House VI in Leo

Ability to command, authority at work. Weak point: the heart and arteries.

House VII is the area of social et intellectual action.

House VII in Libra

Love-marriage with someone of a higher class, bringing the desired luxury and refinement.

House VIII is the area of emotional security and of security of the soul.

House VIII in Scorpio

Lots of vivacity and hastiness put life in danger too often, and one of these times could be too much.

House IX is the area of learning that shapes the identity.

House IX in Sagittarius

Long voyages abroad. Might settle permanently in a foreign country. Intellectual work, mathematical mind.

House X is the area of material action. The Mid-heaven represents the work one will do in his life, the place one will take in the world of society. It becomes more important as one grows older

House X in Capricorn

Someone who is completely trusted at work. Respectable, irreproachable in his work and moral qualities, scrupulous and praiseworthy.

House XI is the area of search for social and intellectual security.

House XI in Capricorn

Stable friendships with composed, wise people, from whose experience of life he can profit in his own life.

House XII is the area of education and of emotion.


House XII in Aquarius

Friends can bring quite a lot of problems.

semester 1 - after MID - sems

we have came from home after the Deepawali break to continue the next part of semester,

Results had came and everybody was serious after it, as most of the people were quite dissatisfied after the results but not all.

As usual the classes started, at first we all people were keen to attend the classes but now the situation was different, guys maintaining 100% attendance had come to 97%.

we were given one more project that too of 200 marks, Integrated Term Project ( ITP), we started working on our projects and assignments, slowly and steadily we got aware of the culture here, got to know what to do to get maximum marks.

We would abuse this system when we got less marks but praised the same when we got good marks.

one thing i observed was that if you have a good reputation among the faculties you get benefit during marking.

In between these days many a happening occurred, we visited Common Effluent Treatment Plant, CETP in the MIDC area, turbhe.

This visit was meant for teaching student about the water treatment techniques, but this visit become a bad memory for one of my classmates, STANLEY GEORGE, he lost his mobile in this industrial visit, can't got it till now, no one knows where the mobile went missing inside the bus.

now i was interacting with all my classmates, the one and a half month time got over and we were to face the end term exams again, same as of the first semester this time also my exams went superbly good according to me but same as that of the mid semester i was again depressed after the results.

after observing the whole class for 6 months, i come to know that it was the best combination of people of different thinking, helping, co-operative and interactive.

On the day i was going to home, we were to attend Jatin's Birthday Party at his home, would like to thank Jatin Sharma.

now for the last few days i was suffering from a major home sickness and in the train i just kept thinking when i would reach home, meet my parents and my dear friends.

NIFT 2010 Admission Test Results declared

National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) has declared results of the written examination which took place on February 21, 2010.

Candidates can check the results by visiting the link Http://specialtest.in/NIFT2010/ResultNift.asp. 

This is the official website of NIFT for results. 

Candidates have to check the results by entering their respective roll numbers and Form no or Date of Birth.

NIFT has its centers throughout India in the cities of 

• New Delhi, 
• Kolkata, 
• Mumbai, 
• Hyderabad, 
• Gandhinagar, 
• Bangalore, 
• Chennai, 
• Patna, 
• Raebareli, 
• Shillong, 
• Kannur and 
• Bhopal.

NIFT provides full time degree courses and it offers both bachelor degree of four years and master degree of two years in Technology, Design, Technology and Management.

Candidates are advised to refer to NIFT website www.nift.ac.in for detailed information.

Anyone who has qualified the NIFT written entarance exam held on 21st feb 2010, for Undergraduate ( UG ) course either from Design ( B.DES ) or from Technology ( B.F.TECH ) background, 
and need suggestions or have queries or seek help about the upcoming situation test or counselling, do contact me on my cell no. 09967958564 or e-mail me at aashutoshvatsa@gmail.com




ASHUTOSH VATSA
AIR- 52 ( GEN )
Year- 2009

Fashion Etymology

Fashion:

Fashion is a major force in our daily lives which affects every aspect of our lives... what we see, do or wear.

It is a complex concept involving much more than apparel, accessories, cosmetics and hairstyle.

It is a style that is accepted and used by the majority of a group at any given time.

Fashion leads us to discard a product that is still useful but is no longer “IN”.

Fashion is a prevailing custom, usage or style.

Fashion is vital, challenging and ever changing force.

Trend/Popular Fashion:

Current style is the latest in fashion. 

This is the ‘Fashion’ that is popular everywhere.

A fashion which is religiously followed by a certain group is called a trend.

In a trend the following things combine to make a fashion:

Its eye appeal and the comfort in an essence.

Its wearable quality.

It is adapted to figure types, to age groups and its shape must be such that it will make up superbly into almost any fabric in any season.

Classic:

When a style stays in trend for a long period and is accepted anywhere and everywhere, it becomes a classic.

A classic stays in the fashion cycle for a long period. 

It is accepted by all groups of a society.

It belongs to highest rank/class.

It serves as the established model or standard.

It has lasting significance or worth.

A classic is a typical or traditional example.

It is a creation of the highest excellence. 

Fad:

A fad is a fashion that comes into popularity overnight. The style becomes a fashion very quickly and it fades off even quicker. 

A fad refers to a fashion that gains popularity in a culture relatively quick, but loses popularity dramatically.

Some fads may come back if another generation finds out about it and gets interested in it.

For example Dayglo paint was a fad in the USA in late 70s. Then Dayglo accessories and clothes had a comeback in late-mid 80s.

It is arguable that a fad that remains popular for a significant amount of time typically loses its significance in current popular culture as it evolves and becomes accepted into a society’s everyday culture as trends.

Collection:

A line of products manufactured for one season, as those developed by a fashion designer.

Style:

It is a way of expressing something that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people of a period. 

Silhouette:

It is the outline or basic contours of an object.

Avant Garde:

It is a French word meaning “front guard, advance guard”.

It refers to people or works that are experimental or novel.

Couture:

It is the business of designing, making and selling high fashionable, usually custom-made clothing for a person. 

It is the high-fashion clothing created by fashion designers. 

Haute Couture:

Haute Couture is a French word for “high sewing” or “high dressmaking”. It refers to the creation of exclusive custom-fitted fashions.

Haute couture is made to order for a specific customer, and it is usually made from high-quality, expensive fabric and sewn with extreme attention to detail and finish. It is often time consuming and made by hand-executed techniques. 

Bridge fashion:

A bridge line refers to pricing and styling category of misses apparel.
Typically, bridge designers are one notch under designer lines.

Bridge lines have more unique styling than contemporary misses but are usually not as pricey as designer lines. The hierarchy with regard to styling, price and exclusivity from highest to lowest is:

Haute Couture >> Designer RTW >> Bridge >> Contemporary

Pret -e- Porter:
It is a French term for 'ready to wear' garments, and are usually made for common people, they are replicated in vast amount and are usually non-expensive.

Knock offs:

Adaptations are referred to as “line-for-line copies” or “knock-offs” and are made of less expensive materials.

Manufactures copies new looks or adapt some of their dominant features, making simpler styles in preparation for rising sales expectations. 

Motifs:

It is a design or figure that consists or recurring shapes, colours as in architecture or decoration.

It is a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in artistic work.

Trimmings:

Something added as decoration or ornament, especially a band or lace or embroidery on clothing.

Boutique:

A boutique is a French word for “shop”, is a small shopping outlet.

It specializes in elite and fashionable items such as clothing and jewellery.

Soft goods:

Non durable goods or soft goods are defined either as goods that are used up when used once, or that have a lifespan of less than 3 years.

Texture:

Texture refers to the properties held and sensations caused by the external surface of objects received through the sense of touch. 

Texture is sometimes used to describe the feel of non-tactile sensations.

Texture can also be termed as a pattern that has been scaled down where the individual elements that goes on to make the pattern not distinguishable. 

Hue:

Hue is also one of the three dimensions in some colour spaces along with saturation and brightness.

Usually, colours with the same hue are distinguished with adjectives referring to their lightness and saturation.

Value:

Value is a measure of where a particular colour lies along the lightness-darkness axis.

Stylist:

A stylist is either a person who co-ordinates the clothes, jewellery, and accessories used in fashion photographs and catwalk shows. 

He is a kind of designer whose designs are based on existing things, trends, and designer collections. 

Toile:

Toile is from a French word meaning “cloth” or “web” – particularly cloth or canvas for painting on.

A toile is a version of a garment made by fashion designers to test a pattern. 

They are usually made in cheap material, as multiple toiles may be made in the process of perfecting a design. 

Toiles may be called “muslins” in the United States. 

Grading:

Pattern grading is the scaling of a pattern to a different size by incrementing important points of the pattern in the clothing and footwear industry.

Pattern:

A pattern is a form, template, or a model which can be used to make or generate things or parts of a thing, especially if the things that are created have enough in common for the underlying pattern to be inferred, in which case the things are said to exhibit the pattern. 

Atelier:

An atelier is an artist’s studio or workroom. 

It is a place where the models are made and duplicated.