“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.” Oscar WildeIrrespective of its form of ugliness, Fashion in Kolkata changes itself everyday at every moment to live a fashionable life. Well! That’s the charm of this City of Joy which plays with fashion and does not wait for six months. Come here and enjoy the preservation of age-old but well cherished as well as new trends of fashion. Don’t be surprised for it’s Kolkata which does not essentially need to have one Fashion Street to make the focal point of the city’s fashion trends like the city of Mumbai. In this cultural capital of India, you will find every corner throbbing with fashion. Kolkata pushes forth pioneering effort in fields of fashion catering exclusively to the growing demands of the fashion and entertainment industry. It offers a stage to all aspiring models, fashion photographers and fashion designers to launch or establish their career on a firmer footing. The city is not just a fashion portal, but its realms extend much beyond its presence on the networked world. National Institute of Fashion Technology Textile and Apparel Industry has been considered as an engine of increase in most economies of the world. It is in this circumstance that Ministry of Textiles, Government of India, set up the National institute of Fashion Technology in 1986 as a Registered Society with the status of an Autonomous Body. The key purpose of this organization is to help the clothing/fashion industry in meeting the industrial competitiveness on an international level. Over the years NIFT has created a learning environment that encourages modernization, originality and brilliance. The opening of NIFT centres at Kolkata has contributed to the spread of fashion cult in the 1990's. In this city, now fashion is being looked upon as a professional career.
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