KOCHI:
India Fashion Summit 2016, the first ever premier business national conference which hosts country’s leading designers and industry experts was inaugurated by U V Jose, Kerala tourism director, along with Arun Balachandran, CEO, India Fashion Summit and Vinod Nair, leading fashion journalist and adviso
r at India Fashion Summit. “Fashion industry in india is about $110 Billion, but the focus is always only to the glamour part of it. Its high time that we should look beyond glamour and its business opportunity aspect. India Fashion Summit 2016 is a step towards that.” said Arun Balachandran in the inaugural ceremony.
The leading designers and Industry experts came together to address topics that will help tackle the challenges and further the growth of the industry. Leading designer Rahul Mishra, Shantanu & Nikhil and Beena Kannnan, Fashion Retail Heads such as Narendra Kumar (Chief Creative Officer, Amazon), Gautam Kotamraju ( Creative Head of Private Brands,Amazon) Pernia Qureshi (Founder of Pernia’s Pop Up Shop), Jaspreeth Chandok (Vice President and Head of Fashion, IMG Reliance), Fashion stylist and consultant Prasad Bidapa , fashion journalists Neena Haridas (Editor, L’Officiel) and Vinod Nair (Former Fashion Editor,Hindustan Times and Times Of India) and other prominent personalities from the world of fashion were present on the dias.
