The revised curriculum aims at developing desired professional, managerial and communication skills as per the requirement of the world of work. We hope that this revision will prove useful in turning out more competent diploma holders in Fashion Technology. The success of this curriculum depends upon its effective implementation and it is expected that the HOD S system including subject teachers will make efforts to create better facilities, develop linkages with the world of work and foster conducive environment as per recommendations made in the curriculum document.
Fashion technology has a fast-paced and continually evolving relationship. Today, the term techno-fashion is used to refer to a predominantly 21st-century phenomenon, but technological advancements were shaping fashion design and fabrication as early as the mid-eighteenth century. As fashion writer Bradley Quinn observes, Technology has always been the essence of fashion...The fast-paced progress of technology complements fashion s ever-evolving aesthetic, and each gives the other a wider frame of reference and more scope to explore new horizons.
Fashion Technology explored the impact of emerging technologies on the nature of fashion design and production over the past 250 years. The exhibition focused on innovations that have influenced the production, materials, aesthetic, and function of fashion. It began with objects created during the Industrial Revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries, when innovations in textile manufacturing revolutionized the fashion industry. These innovations included the introduction of the Spinning Jenny, the Jacquard loom, and the sewing machine. The exhibition then continued chronologically to the present day. In the first decades of the 20th century, technology rapidly transformed the urban landscape, exemplified by the tall buildings that began to rise, nicknamed skyscrapers. As a way to express these technological changes, the Art Deco movement introduced a heavily geometric aesthetic to art and design, which crossed over into fashion in the form of decorative motifs. Innovations in rubber and plastic also found a variety of applications in fashionable items that include athletic shoes and eveningwear.
Following World War II, fashion s engagement with technology surged again. Parisian couturiers Pierre Cardin and Andr Courr ges cited the Space Race as a primary inspiration for their new, youthful fashions. With the first men orbiting the earth in 1961, it seemed apparent to these 1960s designers that an era of recreational space travel was just around the corner. Therefore, they created looks that the fashionable woman could wear on a jaunt to outer-space.