My First Diary Of

FDDI
 

Our Esteemed Managing Director

Mr. Raajeev J Lakhara, IRS, an 1992 batch India Revenue Service officer joined as the Managing Director of Footwear Design & Development Institute (FDDI) on 3rd February 2005. An engineer turned Revenue service officer, during the course of his long and distinguished career has served in a wide variety of assignments including the Joint Commissions / Joint Director (Investigation), Income Tax Department prior to joining FDDI. After he took over as the Managing Director of FDDI, under his able & dynamic guidance the institute is constantly moving ahead towards new horizons. His dynamic leadership, decisive and determinant approach motivates any individual to achieve the best in life. His wisdom and knowledge is a sure factor of inspiration for the students and staff to achieve new epitome of success. Mr.Raajeev J Lakhara says Indian Fashion Industry has got a long way to go and I am sure our students of Fashion Design will play a major role in this journey and will be the change makers and trend setters.

OUR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    

Our

Esteemed

Executive

Director

Shri.

Manu Tentiwal an I.R.S officer of 2003 batch took charge of FDDI Fursatganj in the year 2011. Under his dynamic leadership and support the Institution has progressed a lot. It is because of his support and

encouragement the Institution was able to reach the height of success that it has achieved today. We thank him for his support and words of encouragement that he has always put to the staff and students of The Department of Fashion Design. But for his support it would have been difficult to succeed.

HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT

The Department of Fashion Design is the Youngest Department of FDDI and it is also the creative department that brings out the hidden says creativity Sivagnesh in any The

individual,

Babu,

Head of the Department. Mr.Babu was the Heading the Board of Fashion and

Garment Design of Mangalore University for More than Four Years and was also the major member to revolutionize the

Fashion and Apparel Industry In south India through his academic service as Member of Board of Studies of many prestigious

Universities including Kannur University. Having more than eleven years of Academic experience in the field is leading the department in an innovative manner. He was recognized as the Youngest Principal of Mangalore University, was also conferred the honour being the Youngest Board of Studies Chairman of the same

University. His experience in the Industrial, Training as well as Teaching field is of great value, that helps him in taking many innovative steps for the improvement of the Students, Staff and Department. He is a man who believes in new methods of teaching and group dynamics, Inclusive growth and success. His Statement Be Good and Do Good helps the students to think positive and do positive things. This yearbook work of the Department is the beginning and there are still more new things to come. Through this yearbook he liked to express heartfelt thanks to the Management, The Staff, The Students and all concerned. Special thanks were mentioned to the Industries who have extended their support to the Department.

OUR COURSE DIRECTOR

She is one of a person who has a core background of

designing. Scoring her under graduation from NIFT

(National Institute of fashion design) in discipline of

Design, she has followed to achieve her post-graduation from St. Peters University, Chennai in Fashion Technology. After Working for years in fashion corporate, she has gained the operational skills of fashion industry. She has worked with many international and overseas fashion brands such as Mango, Levis, Free People, Mis Selfridges, Urban outfitters, Jones, Accessorize and many other

including retail brands. Other than corporate businesses she was involved in many clusters and crafts ventures and has undertaken many projects which help the rural section to develop their skills and crafts to earn better. She is also expertise in designing software and also conducts many industrial designing. Now she is meekly serving her knowledge and expertise to Fashion Design students of FDDI and is working her best to boost the creativity and moral.

Her words of inspiration: An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

BANJARA: THE FEST

College fest WOW.. That wow factor makes us more enthusiastic to prove our self. We got an opportunity to leave the footprints in the Foot-Steps 2012, We launched our first The collection, The Banjara Collection.

journey of 1st semester proved much more interesting due to this event, where we worked round the clock to give look to our collection and give shape to our works. Throughout the preparations we were moulded in such a way that we should never have to commit all such mistakes again. I admit we were not perfect, nor collection was highly professional but at last we were happy because we at least tried and yes it was good enough for audience and so for us..... The pure heart and pure minds of the department made the people happy. That was the first step towards success.. and so we did it this is what we were.

Visit of Honourable UPA Chief and M.P Madam. Sonia Gandhi.

It was a remarkable experience when Mrs. Sonia Gandhi visited our college. It was the class as whole. It was a great thing for us to display our talent in front of one of the most powerful woman of the World. We worked day and night throughout a week to give our best. As it was the first major task and it being our first year we didnt have much old stocks. It was a challenge for us to prove our creativity and we did it. We displayed many of our art and craft works which proved to be centre of attraction for whole college and our Honourable Guest Madam. Gandhi spent her valuable time to explore and appreciate our works. Her appreciation built lot of self

confidence in us which lead us to work to achieve something more. Our journey continues..

Our First Seminar

The first seminar Organised in the Department. What an expectation? What a Guest? We really had one of the best Seminars by the famous Designer Mr.Tim Mendonsa. Who has designed for many celebrities like Madona, Hillary Clinton and others. His words of caution, wisdom and motivation made us to feel more competitive. Dont think of a pleasant a life at your beginning stage if you want to be a successful designer, was the Yes. statement He was of Mr.Mendonsa. living

example for it, who shared his life history with the students of FDDI. This seminar was very useful for all the designing students and we learnt how to build a portfolio.

Industrial Visit
A visit to industry in JUST one semester! Wow! Wow! were taken to the We

Weaving

Industry located in Varanasi. We were exposed to handlooms weaving, dyeing and printing. What we learned there it is unforgettable. It was a great

time visiting industry, meeting different people of industry

and knowing their jobs. It was an infotainment event

Womens day celebration

Apart fashion from we being people students are of design, much

liberally interested in making others a part of our happiness, our celebration. So we find it So as to in our duty this and utmost to the the responsibility women. department give respect a

context,

organised

wonderful

activities event, for the whole college where we made them play, laugh, sing, run and enjoy as much as was possible. It was just the small contribution to add a little fun filled awareness around. We together enjoyed and the balloon other

bursting,

antakshri

many

things, at last as a token of love from our side we presented a Brochures to all the female faculties and senior faculties, which was made by the student of FD only. We always want to make things possible by doing our bit and will continue in the same way..

Raymond India in FDDI Fursatganj

The second seminar organized by the department. Same excitement, same expectation but in a little more sense, Mr.Raja Amitabh The Design Head of Raymonds Ever Blue Apparels along with his team made their presence and delivered a seminar on Industrial Process of Designing and encouraged the student to be daring to face the competitive world. It was again a very informative seminar, which gave us information on the industrial attitude and what industry expects from the Freshers. Our Journey still continues

FASHION SHOW-FASHIONOVA
We think and we plan, we plan and we work and then a time comes when we put everything in our best action to achieve the set target or goal. As the time passes, we are trained with something more in fashion and by the Gods grace an opportunity came when we met the Head-Designer of RAYMONDS and his team. It felt as if a new born bird already been god gifted how to fly, as soon you open your eyes. Again it proved to be challenging to prove our self the best amongst the rest. The students really worked hard and chosen laborious techniques and works to make their collection best and to make their team won. In that project, Some group tried to show the influence of chatting and social networking sites. Some tried their level best and made best possible inspiration from birds, i.e.; Brotherhood. While, some went into deep detailing of insects and flies and created such an excellent structured designs and At some place students tried to connect the public to the Astro-numerology.. Even for the first time here we dealt with smart textiles that are wearable electronics. The work was much appreciated by the Raymonds people and other guest. It was a real reward for us and this inspired our dream more.

Photography Exhibition
We had our Photography Module, where we learnt about photography especially portfolio, pleasant product outdoor task to photography, photography, organize the

macro and light painting. It was a photography and art exhibition. We changed, our way of looking and clicking Mr.Nitin of a things famous changed. photographer

taught us how to focus and click without mistakes. The photography and art exhibition was a way to express our creativity and memories through the pictures. We enjoyed it. Our Journey still continues .

Our views

Compiled by:

Saurabh Pandey
designersaurabh93@gmail.com

Reach us at:

School of Fashion Design, Footwear Design & Development Institute, Sultanpur road,Fursatganj, Raebareli Contact no.: 0535-2441535 Email: hodfdfddi@gmail.com