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Why it will still be interesting to be a Fashion Professional after the lockdown

And how it will be a smart decision as well Often considered to be risqué and glamorous, replete with beautiful people and fashion shows, the life of a fashion professional was viewed as a life of pomp and razzmatazz. Will this change post the pandemic and lockdowns...

4 Business Trends Emerging From COVID-19

Republished from Forbes.com - 4 Business Trends Emerging From COVID-19, 22 April 2020 The world has certainly slowed down lately, leaving a lot of business owners either scrambling or strategizing. A few trends are emerging, and if considered, could give your business...

The Upside of Lockdown

For all of us, the journey through this continuing lockdown has had a lot of twists and turns. Day in and day out, we are facing the same situations that we would face normally, deal with in a habitual, business-as-usual manner, and simply move on. Now however,...

India Design Report

Adapted from CII India Design Report 2020. Read the full report here - https://www.cii.in/webcms/Upload/a2.pdf We live in interesting times defined by exponential change. We have increasingly learned to adapt to this change, but are yet to fully learn to accept it....

Design v/s COVID 19

“Never let a good crisis go to waste.” Winston Churchill is believed to have said this in the mid-1940s during the end of World War II. The quote couldn’t be more relevant in today’s times. We are in the middle of a crisis, and we are witnessing human ingenuity and...

2020 Media And Entertainment Industry Outlook

Adapted from industry report on global Media & Entertainment (M&E) Industry by Deloitte.com. Read the full report here - https://bit.ly/3cfBTrd Video Streaming And Digital Media Industry Trends To Watch As the streaming wars intensify, can consumers expect to see more...

The State Of Fashion 2020

Adapted From Report on Global Fashion Industry by McKinsey & Co and Business of Fashion. Read the full report here -...

Contemporary Media | What is and what should be

The 19th and 20th centuries have witnessed important paradigm shifts in the way we expressed ourselves. Consider the rise in consumption of print media in the 1800s, radio in the 1920s, television in the 1950s. Then came the internet which connected the entire world,...

Role of Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning in Design: Between Fear & Fantasy

Featured Image: Future Streetscape (Future Cities Design Lab, 2020) As an avid science fiction and speculative design enthusiast, the idea of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) offers thrilling opportunity to imagine a future transcending limits of...

Look Up To The Lockdown

Enough and more has been written about how the COVID-19 crisis has ushered in unpredictable and unprecedented times for the humanity and nations across the world. The pandemic has acted like an agitator in the evolution of many industries and technologies. This...

Fashion in 2020 | The Sustainable Way or No Way

24th April 2020 – A day marked with soot in the fashion history. A day, when seven years ago, over a thousand garment industry workers in Bangladesh lost their lives to the materialistic greed of fast fashion. A day when the cracks in the crumbling foundation of the...

Fashion In The New Reality

After about a month spent in lockdown, it feels that our personal earths have shifted a bit on their axes, leading to monumental disruptions in our personal and professional lives. Being an educator by profession, I am seeing the current health crisis from that lens....