“Creativity is making marvelous out of the discarded.”
Reshirt 2021 was the second event by “Design Hub – A peer space for Budding Designers,” an initiative of Amity School of Fashion Design & Technology (ASFDT), Mumbai, organized to promote aspiring designers across the country. Moreover, to promote the best ideas and implementations of fashion & design, inviting many young talents from across the country with extraordinary ideas and intellect.
Reshirt 2021 contest was all about recreating and reconstructing their old T-shirts into something entirely new. The sole aim of this exercise was to create new and trendy pieces while producing zero waste. Reshirt was a PAN India Inter-University event managed by the ASFDT, Mumbai team. It got an excellent rate of participation with over more than 40 responses. Participants showcased their creative skills by styling and remodelling their reconstructed Tees. This event had a great social media reach as well.
Various universities actively participated in this event, such as Amity University Mumbai, Amity University Noida, Amity University Chhattisgarh, Amity School of Fashion Design and Technology Uttar Pradesh, Delhi University, Maharaja SayajiRao University, Good Samaritan School, National Institute of Fashion Technology, NIFT Panchkula, Institute of home economics and more.
The winners of the Reshirt contest were-
Nishi Bhartia, who grabbed the 1st position:
Aarchi Arora as 1st runner-up:
Sreyaparna Dey and Sumedha Shettipally as 2nd runners up.
It was an honor for the team to have Ms. Sejal Thakur, fashion stylist at Marks and Spencer’s and Ms. Smrutiseema Nayak, Visual Merchandising Manager at H&M as the external jury members along with the professors at ASFDT who judged the contest.
The winners were given e-certificates of achievement and were featured on ASFDT’S social media handles. Meanwhile all the participants were given E-certificates for participation to acknowledge and encourage their participation.
Overall, the contest turned out to be an exciting and participative event. The team at DesignHub and ASFDT looks forward to more such exciting events in order to keep discovering hidden young hidden talents of the country.
Author:
Aditi Mandlik
2nd Year, B. Des. Fashion Design
Editors:
Lubaina Surury
2nd Year, B. Des. Fashion Communication
Shalini Mohanty
Assistant Professor, ASFDT
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