Design & Fashion Studio
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CSIR-Central Leather Research Institute (CSIR-CLRI)
‘India Fashion Studio’ was set-up in CLRI during August 1993 as one of the five wings of the Shoe Design & Development Centre. The Indian Footwear Industry was at its nascent stage during early 1990’s. With the objective to help and support the Industry with design and range building, colour trends forecasting and human resource development in ‘shoe design and styling,’ India Fashion Studio was born.
SERVICES
India Fashion Studio started offering services that also included:
- MODEUROP Colours: Leather & Colour Trends eighteen months ahead of a season.
- FASHION TREND POOL: Leather and Colour Trends eighteen months ahead of a season.
- Advantage 24: Leather & Colour Trends twenty four months ahead of a season (for the discerning)
- Leather & Material Trends: Trends in textures and new materials
- Accessory Trends: Trends in Handbags and accessories
- Footprints: Shoe and Shoe Component Trends
- Shoe Retail Trends: Trends and Forecasts for Shoes
- Retail Photopack: Top trends in shoes from the various fashion capitals
- The Bag Picture: Top trends in handbags from the various fashion capitals
- Fair Report & Analysis: First-hand reports from leading trade fairs and exhibitions covering Anteprima, Lineapelle, GDS and Expo Riva Shoes
- Moditalia Trends: Trends in Leathers, Materials and Colours from the Italian markets
- Shoe Designer’s Club (later re-christened as India Design Club): A Shoe Designer's Club was launced in Year 1994 as a window to International Fashion and continued to provide services to Leather product industries. This facility enables leather and leather product manufacturers to gain access to the vast international information based on shoe and leather fashions, design and development, tends, colours and materials
- Outreach Seminars/ Dissemination programmes: India Fashion Studio has travelled the length and breadth of the country to the major leather centres and has reached out to the discerning members with trends in leathers, colours, materials, shoes and handbags.
- Fashion Shows: India Fashion Studio presents the colour trends at fashion shows being organized by the Industry during LEATHERWEEK every year.
- Design Awards: The Fashion Studio organizes CLE’s Design Award annually
- Theme Pavilions: India Fashion Studio has been conceptualizing and presenting the setting-up of Theme Pavilions at major national and international fairs in association with ITPO and CLE.
FASHION FORECASTING
Travel of India in ‘fashion forecasting’ for leather
Travel of INDIA in ‘fashion forecasting’ for leather is an initiative to bring to the fore the ability of the Indian Leather Industry to take pro-active measures in fashion forecasting and design development by providing a scientific leather product development focus in the areas of colour forecasting, range building, design and retail analysis.
The outcome envisaged is to strengthen the Indian leather product design capabilities which would be reflected in product quality enhancement.
Leather has emerged as a fashion product. Colour, texture and other highlights add to the fashion values of creatively designed leather products. These add significantly to the value realization from leather products. Nations like India have remained in the backyard of fashion world in Europe for long. If India were to emerge as a strong global player in the world leather trade, all efforts to take proactive measures to be ready with the fashion leathers when the fashion does emerge, is crucial.
Design & Fashion Studio will now graduate From leap frogging to pole vaulting in fashion forecasting for leather
MODEUROP
INDIA through CSIR-CLRI is a member of MODEUROP, Germany since 1993
ModEurop is the official trend fashion platform of the German Shoe Institute. With its ColourCard, ForeCasts and ColourClubConference, ModEurop offers the design studios of shoe and accessory manufacturer’s orientation for each season. As a trendsetter and network of experts, MODEUROP works both for and with the shoe industry and offer a wide variety of services including trends and culture surrounding shoes, bags and accessories.
For more information visit: www.modeurop.com
FASHION TREND POOL
India is a member of FASHION TREND POOL since Year 2018, but associated with its fashion experts since 1993.
Fashion Trend Colour Circle Meetings are held twice every year covering the Spring & Summer and Autumn & Winter seasons. Fashion Trend Pool newsletter brings fortnightly updates on global fashion and trends.
For more information, please visit: www.fashion-trend-pool.com
SYNERGY
The Indian Leather and Leather Products Industry has widely accepted the ‘trend services’ being offered by CLRI and has termed it as ‘unparalled service’ from CLRI. The MODEUROP, FASHION TREND POOL, CLUB Membership and dissemination programmes have always been held in association with:
- Council for Leather Exports (CLE)
- Indian Shoe Federation (ISF)
- Indian Finished Leather Manufacturers & Exporters Association (IFLMEA)
- Indian Leather Products Association (ILPA)
- Indian Leather Garments Association (ILGA)
- India Trade Promotion Organization (ITPO)
Leading International and national chemical houses support the colour trend forecasting endeavour through sponsorships.
Tanners & Product Industries present their leather/ colour proposals at successive colour meetings.
The Council for Leather Exports acknowledges the contribution of the participating Tanneries with ‘winning colours’ by presenting CLE Awards during LEATHERWEEK every year.
INDIA DESIGN CLUB
Seeks to combine creativity, an eye for fashion and pragmatism
Membership for Year 2020 is OPEN.
Please click here for ‘ membership application ’ (pdf file)
R & D IN SHOE DESIGN
Under the major lab projects of the Institute, Design & Fashion Studio will work on:
Design & Fashion Innovations for Leather and Leather Products
Comfort line of footwear :
In the context of FOOTWEAR, psychologically, a person picks up a ‘sports shoe immediately thinking that the shoe will give him/ her the desired comfort to the feet irrespective of the occasion for which he/she is wearing those shoes. The CSIR-CLRI project on COMFORT SHOES addresses the discerning who want to wear a good formal/ semi-formal ‘comfort’ shoe for men, women and for children. For comfort footwear, it’s what’s inside the shoe that counts. Foot beds often deliver the benefits from arch supports to metatarsal guards to simple cushioning. So, in order to prolong the life of a shoe, making the most of one’s investment, replacement of insoles that can be easily swapped out with the original is recommended. Due to the unique shape of the shoes that follow the natural contours of the foot, the footwear is customized to its signature silhouettes. Leather-lined versions would also be designed. Comfort shoe gives consumers the chance to experience the benefits of their unique design which has an arch support and helps relieve foot pain.
Plan of work:
- Criteria of comfort shoe and manufacturing technique
- Development of comfort index and thereof Material selection
- Optimization with the help of material & shoe testing
INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING FOR DESIGN STUDIOS
INDUSTRIAL ENGINEEERING OF SAMPLE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS
ESSENTIAL OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING IN SAMPLE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS
The sample development and the production processes are in the same season, somehow the sample development process is consuming more time than the production. For the concern to reduces the duration of sample development process by the analyzing the issues and difficulties in each stage of process. Further have to find a solution for the causes by fishbone diagram and it represents the problems clearly to diagnose and bring out the proper methodology for that.
Forecasting: Forecasting is the process of estimating needs and requirement in terms of the existing processing of the development of timing, quality, and location for the desired process and service. Good forecast should be accurate, reliable, timely, easy to understand and cost effective and can be range from the simple to the extremely complex.
Analysing issues and difficulties: By determining the various causes and problems in each stage of development process tends to provide appropriate solutions for the problems. For better reviewing of causes and difficulties through fishbone diagram provides clear and concurrent of the solutions.
Process Planning and Control: With the determined problems and difficulties, the scheduling of the work process and monitoring of the work and transparency of the work to the superior for the ease of understanding. Evaluation of the Process: Finally, the work evaluation provides the proper documentation for the future references and also to the continuous improvement.
Application of Industrial engineering concepts for design and development of leather products : The leather products sample development process consumes enormous amount of time and it needs to be undertaken with special attention and importance by the sampling department in industries in our country. In the present circumstances, leather products industries are geared up to engage on production and sample developmental applications at one go which is highly challenging for the industries to cope-up with the commitments like timely delivery of goods on time. Hence, it necessities to devise methods and processes in order to standardize uct development focus in the areas of colour forecasting, range building, design and retail analysis. The outcome envisaged is to strengthen the Indian leather product design capabilities which would be reflected in product quality enhancement.
TESTING & DESIGN
Under the major lab projects of the Institute, Design & Fashion Studio will work onSteel Shanks
Steel shanks are provided in between the heel and waist portion of the shoe to increase the rigidity of the shoe and its continuous function. However when the steel shanks are not sufficiently hard and flexible, they tend to break making the shoe not usable. This trend is more obvious in high heel shoes. To test the quality of steel shanks testing devices are available. But they are complicated in design and working under pneumatic pressure principle and also can be tested only on steel shanks and not on whole shoe. The new concept will work on mechanical principle and has the provision to test the whole shoe. Shoes with steel shanks were tested, validated and evaluated. Test results were statistically analysed and reported.
Importance of the proposed project in the context of current status: Fatigue resistance of insole/midsole containing steel shanks is done by fixing in the heel area and flexed at the bottom side of the shoe using mechanical provision. This step almost simulates the forepart flexing of the shoe during wear.
Re START as DESIGN & FASHION
The NEED: To strengthen our support to the Indian Leather Industry in the area of ‘fashion and design’ of footwear, the Design & Fashion Studio is set up into an independent unit of CSIR-CLRI (vide CLRI OM No: 21(4)/2018-EI dated 20 th April 2020). Design & Fashion Studio was announced on 1 st May 2020.
VISION
CLRI plays the role of a ‘design interpreter’ catalyzing the growth of the leather and leather products sector by motivating the members of the Indian Leather Fraternity to stay ahead of fashion in LEATHER and LEATHER PRODUCTS design.
Design & Fashion Studio will now graduate f rom leap frogging to pole vaulting in fashion forecasting for leather and strengthen our support to the Indian Leather Industry in the area of ‘fashion and design’ of footwear and leather products.
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