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Twenty students selected for fashion designing workshop

DUBAI — Twenty students from five public and private schools in Dubai with creative imagination for fashion designing have been selected for a two-week fashion designing workshop at the Indian High School (IHS) Dubai in association with Dubai Education District.

In addition, students of Al Noor School Training Centre for Children with the Special Needs School will be special invitees.

The workshop beginning tomorrow until March 30 titled “Dressing Up Mom” will culminate in a grand fashion show on April 6. The workshop also marks the formal inauguration of the Fashion Design Centre at the Indian High School to facilitate students who are studying fashion designing as part of the CBSE syllabus.

Formally inaugurating the workshop yesterday, Rasheeda Badri, Joint Director, Dubai Education District, said she was proud to be associated with “Dressing Up Mom” project by the Indian High school.

“The institute is making a lot of efforts to prepare the youth with a modern approach to education, and this will introduce students to wider options available to them as a career,” said Badri.

She said the fashion designing workshop also includes six local girl students from two public schools in Dubai. “It will teach aspiring students the basics of fashion designing and expose them to their creative potential,” said Badri, adding that following the success of the workshop, the Dubai Education District will recommend to the Ministry of Education to include fashion designing as part of the curriculum in public schools in the future.

Ashok Kumar, Principal, Indian High School Dubai, said the word fashion has been limited to glamour and sacrilegious images of men and female models. “But, we at IHS have decided to interpret the word within the boundaries of our age-old value systems to represent a judicious blend of tradition and modernity which is alien in our present day social set-up.”

He said the selected students will be assisted by the Pearl Academy Fashion Designing in Sharjah to design dresses on four themes — Festive Mom, Chic Mom, Traditional Mom, and Career Mom.