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Kurta Collaboration Exhibit: FIT and India’s Pearl Academy
The current “Style Journey” exhibition in the Art and Design Gallery has an extensive section on contemporary kurtas, hand-embroidered and collaboratively designed by FIT Textile/Surface Design students and by Fashion Design students from Pearl Academy in India. We asked Textile Surface Design Professor Susanne Goetz, who curated the kurta section, for details on how it…
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A Passage to India 20 Feet at a Time
There was a special rapport and intimacy shared at the recent fabric and embroidery workshops led by Dr. Vaddi Sarvani from the National Institute of Fashion Technology in Hyderbad, India. The visiting professor spent a week teaching saree draping and Indian embroideries to Fashion Design and Textile Surface Design students and faculty. “Her knowledge was…