The Mumbai chapter of SDC EC recently organised its 5th National Students Competition – Young Talent Search 2015 at the Textiles Committee’s office in Mumbai.
The theme for this year’s competition was ‘Innovations in colour and its use’ and it received over 25 entries for Colouration and Fashion categories from across India.
Six entries from Colouration category and five entries from Fashion category were shortlisted and winners were declared from both categories separately.
In the Colouration category, Priyanka Shinde and Swapnali Patil of Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT) were declared as the winner for their project titled ‘Novel effects by effective combinations’.
According to Priyanka, this research modernises the fashion statement by effectively combining both the effects, recycling undesirable to desirable and providing a channel.
Prashant Gangawane and Ambadas Garge also from Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT) were named first runner up for their paper on ‘Innovative Use of Unused Tetracycline Hydrochloride as Colourant in Textile’.
Dhrubani Gangopadhyay from Govt. College of Textile Technology & Engineering, Kolkatta was declared the second runner up for her paper on ‘Supercritical Fluid Technology and Plasma Technology’.
The Colouration category jury consisted of Ashok Athalye, Deepak Alat and Prabhat Kumar Trivedi.
In the Fashion category, Karishma Jain of B.D.Somani institute was announced the winner for her project on used towels.
According to Karishma, the project proposal involves and demands an active support from hotels, which would selflessly support them with donations of such used towels, napkins and robes.
These towels and towel items are then further treated for sanitation and hygiene purpose, thus making them fresh and ready for further design application.
The first runner up was Devanshi Shah, also from B.D.Somani Institute for her project on Radium printing on apparel in form of placement prints.
Khilti Visharia, the second runner up was also from B.D.Somani Institute and she got the prize for her project ‘Sun Sand & Stains’.
The jury for the Fashion category was made up of Shalini Mehta, Sumant Kelenka and Bhamini
Subramaniam.
The winner’s cash prize was sponsored by Fibre2fashion.com; the first runner up cash prize was from Gobal Organic Textile Standard (GOTS) and second runner up prize was from Tanul Laboratories. (AR)
