Fashion Weeks
Fall Winter 23-24

Discover the International Sales Campaigns
Fall Winter 23-24 of main Multi Label Showrooms, of
a wide Brands selection and the International Trade Shows dates

 For the Rakuten fashion week Tokyo 2023 FW season, which will take place from Mar. 13 to 18, 2023, the Japan fashion week organization (hereinafter indicated as Jfwo), rather than simply returning to how things were before the corona pandemic, will be changing directions towards a new stage for further developments, with the “fusing of digital and physical” and “strengthening of power to transmit globally”, the new formats cultivated these past two years (past four seasons, including the one time the event was cancelled) at the base.

In this upcoming FW 23, in addition to digital projects and transmission of key visuals original to Tokyo’s fashion week, new whirls through physical exchanges and/or activities will be created.

Program Introduction

Make your creative designs stand out. The UMT Bachelor of Fashion Design degree provides you with the right skills to create innovative designs whether it be for the fashion shows of high couture or ready to wear garments. Participants gain the skills and knowledge necessary to work as a fashion designers and understand all aspects of the industry. Through challenging and studio based projects, they are able to conceptualize their design, develop drawing skills, learn about texture, color and fabric, pattern making and garment construction, as they work towards turning raw materials into a unique finished product.

The degree focuses on the balance between theoretical and industry-relevant fashion design as you research and develop an innovative fashion design practice. Students are taught subjects related to fashion illustration, pattern making and cutting, sewing and stitching. The discipline put emphasizes on strong communication and interpersonal skills to raise confident individuals, who can share their vision clearly and develop better understanding of fashion design.

This major encourages you to take a unique approach to design, achieve technical competence and gain industry practice. Graduating fashion students have the opportunity to present their work to industry professionals at thesis exhibition.  Students acquire skills, knowledge and contacts to prepare them for a range of career opportunities within the fashion industry. As a graduate of the Bachelor of Fashion Design student, you can opt for career as fashion designer, product developer, fashion manager, design manager, fashion merchandiser, and fashion brand owner.

The glamour. The fame. The art of creative details. Becoming a fashion designer promises all this and more. But is the love for designing clothes enough to become a good designer?

Fashion design has become highly competitive today. If you want to pursue a career in this industry, you will have to work harder and develop several other skills. It is not only about getting a Bachelor’s degree in Fashion Design but also about Visual Arts, General Design and even Graphic Design knowledge. That is if you really want to be the best.

Now, let’s look at your study options if you want to become the next Vivienne Westwood.

1. Get an early head start – prepare from high school for Fashion studies

It’s always good to be prepared ahead of time to meet the university admission requirements for a Fashion Bachelor’s degree. That’s why doing some related courses in high school can help you. Here are some key steps you can take:

Take home economics classes and learn how to sew fast

Draw and paint on your own to exercise your eye for colour and patterns

Learn visual design software like Photoshop, CorelDraw, Xara, Serif DrawPlus

Read about Art and Fashion Design from blogs, books, and magazines

2. Study a Bachelor’s in Fashion Design

If you don’t want to just work in the fashion industry, but to actually become the driving force behind it, then you need to start with the basics. Doing undergraduate studies in Fashion Design will help you understand everything about fashion design history, manipulating clothing textiles, sketching and drawing clothes, fashion events, or managing a fashion house.

These are some great fashion schools you should consider applying to:

• LISAA School of Design, in France
• Istituto Europeo Di Design (IED), in Italy
• Accademia Del Lusso, in Italy
• London College of Contemporary Arts, in the UK

Karachi Attack

Security forces identify two terrorists involved in Karachi attack.

Security forces clear Karachi police chief’s office on Sharea Faisal, 3 terrorists killed

 

The office of the Karachi police chief, which came under attack on Friday evening by armed militants, has been cleared, officials said, adding that at least three terrorists had been killed.

“I can so far confirm that the Karachi Police Office (KPO) building has been cleared. Three terrorists have been neutralised,” said Sindh government spokesperson Murtaza Wahab on Twitter at 10:42pm, three-and-a-half hours after the attack occurred.

Of the three militants killed in the retaliatory action by the security forces, two terrorists  hailed from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P).

The terrorist who blew himself up during the security operation was identified as Kifayatullah, son of Miraz Ali Khan and a resident of Wanda Amir, Lakki Marwat.

The second terrorist was identified as Zala Noor, son of Wazir Hasan, who hailed from North Waziristan.

Women's T20 World Cup

Muneeba Ali smashes century as Pakistan crush Ireland at Women's T20 World Cup

Wicketkeeper-batter Muneeba Ali set up an impressive win for Pakistan in the Women’s T20 World Cup with a match-changing century against Ireland in Cape Town on Wednesday.

The 70-run triumph put Pakistan in the third spot in the group with two points after England and India secured first and second positions, respectively, with their back-to-back victories in the first two matches. Pakistan lost to India in the first game of the tournament on Feb 12.

According to Cricinfo, Muneeba became the first woman to score a T20I hundred for Pakistan and only the sixth to score one in a T20 World Cup.

Pakistan bowlers dismissed the Irish batting side to a meagre total of 95 with Nashra Sandhi claiming four scalps, followed by Nida Dar and Sadia Iqbal, who took two each, and Tuba Hassan's one as the team defended a formidable 165.

Muneeba's 102 off 68 balls helped Pakistan pose a competitive total at a loss of five wickets, while Dar's 33 in the later part of the innings was another notable contribution for Team Green. No other player could enter the double digits.

In a post-match talk following her match-winning knock, Muneeba credited batting partner Dar with encouraging her at a crucial point of the innings.

“I was very confident when I got out there. When I made a start in the powerplay I thought it would be my day and I could make it count,” she said.

“Then I had a partnership with Nida and she was always telling me to keep going and score big.

“So from the 12th or 13th over I felt I could make a hundred, and she pushed me. I was playing with my feet and trying to understand where they were trying to bowl and make a plan where I could find a boundary," Muneeba continued.

“I want to dedicate my (Player of the Match) award to my captain (Bismah Maroof) and my teammates. We had a bad game (against India) and we fight a lot, but everyone is happy today.”

Pakistan will play their next game against West Indies in Paarl on Sunday (Feb 19).

All cricket boards are committed to work together’ Wasim Khan

Karachi: The CEO of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Wasim Khan said that all the cricket boards assured to work together during an important International Cricket Council (ICC) Chief Executive Committee’s meeting. 

“There has never been a more important time for our global cricket community to be unified and there was a clear commitment from colleagues on today’s meeting to work in the collective best interest of our sport,” Khan said in a statement.

“Today’s meeting was the first step in a longer-term process that will enable us to take a joined-up approach to decision making as we shape our response to this pandemic to get cricket back on an even keel,” he added.

It must be noted here that ICC’s Chief Executive Manu Sawhney called a meeting on Thursday to discuss the future of cricket amid worldwide lockdown situation due to widely-spread coronavirus.

The CEOs of the 12 Full Members and three Associate representatives confirmed their full commitment to work in partnership to address the challenges the sport will face in the coming weeks and months.

The future of ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2020, the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2021, World Test Championship and the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup Super League was also discussed during the teleconference.

Meanwhile, there was agreement that the disrupted FTP program would need to be collectively reviewed through to 2023 with a view to rescheduling as much of the cricket that has been postponed due to COVID-19 as possible.

Latest Sindh News

Court reserves verdict on plea against water connection to hospital

A file photo of the Sindh High Court building.

Bench expressed its concern over water scarcity in the metropolitan city

The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Wednesday reserved its judgment on a petition against grant of a direct water connection to a private hospital by the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board (KWSB) in North Nazimabad.

Appearing before a two-member bench, headed by Justice Aqeel Ahmed Abbasi, the counsel for the petitioner, Usman Farooq Advocate, stated that grant of water connections should not be decided on political considerations. Everyone living in Pakistan is equal citizen of the country; therefore, water connections should be given on merit.

The bench expressed its concern over water scarcity in the metropolitan city. Justice Abbasi remarked that it was important to address the water scarcity issue and ensure supply of clean drinking water to all citizens of Karachi. The deputy commissioner Central, KWSB officials and others appeared before the bench.

"People living towards the tail-end do not receive drinking water. Shortage of water leads to arguments which result in riots," the judge remarked. He added that proper SOPs should be laid down for grant of water connections. "No one should be begging for a connection from the main line," he said.

The KWSB engineer submitted that connections could be granted from the main pipeline to hospitals on commercial basis. "What happens if someone requests a new connection in the area," the court remarked? "Wouldn't there be issues if you give a connection from the main pipeline?"

According to the deputy commissioner central, issues pop up due to new constructions and renting out of portions of bungalows. A KWSB official submitted before the bench that the hospital in question has been given a two-inch diameter connection from the 36-inch main water pipeline.

After hearing arguments from both sides, the court reserved its decision on the petition.

 

Published in The Express Tribune, February 16th, 2023.

Schools in Sindh not reopening soon despite pressure from associations

Shazia Hasan

KARACHI: Sindh Minister for Education, Labour and Human Resources Saeed Ghani has said that the education department cannot risk reopening educational institutions in the province by June 1 or June 15 as he is being pressured to do so by several private school associations.

He also said that they had thought over the decision of promoting all students to the next level without taking exams because there were issues they had overlooked earlier, especially when it comes to board exams. Therefore, only students up to class eight would be promoted.

The minister was speaking to members of the media following a two-hour meeting of the Sindh government’s steering committee on education at the Sindh Assembly here on Tuesday.

It was being said for several days that nothing regarding education, be it the decision of reopening of schools, examinations, fees, etc, was final and inconclusive until the steering committee meets again to take up all these matters with the stakeholders.

Students from class one to eight will be promoted to next level

The education minister said that Federal Minister for Education Shafqat Mahmood’s announcement that the closure of schools would be extended till July 15 and all students of classes one to 12 were to be promoted without having to sit for exams was given in haste without looking at the problems from all angles. “But to all the private schools saying that schools should reopen from June 1 or June 15, I will also say that we are also not prepared for that. We will have to extend the closure,” he said, adding that the steering committee on education had already announced the entire academic plan in March, but after Shafqat Mahmood’s announcement last week, he called him to inform that he did not have the Sindh education department’s consent and they would like to review his decisions by calling their steering committee’s meeting again.

“But now the federal minister for education is also saying that promoting students of classes nine, 10, 11 and 12 is not so simple,” he said.

“Yes, students of classes one to eight can be promoted to the next level on the basis of their last year’s performance and results,” he said. “But there, too, it won’t be right to promote students who just barely passed last year. We think it would be good to make some students who are very weak in certain subjects to take their exams in those particular subjects. But this decision we leave to the discretion of the schools,” he added.

“As for classes nine, 10, 11 and 12, they come under the various boards, which have their own rules. And changing those rules will require making amendments to their ordinances. We have called all the respective board chairmen and the secretary school and secretary colleges to review the issues that we face in making things work there and also to come up with their suggestions and solutions. After all the students passing out of colleges are to go to professional colleges and universities and we cannot allow them to do that with the eyes closed,” he said.

Saeed Ghani said he had formed another committee to look into these matters during the steering committee’s meeting. He said they would also discuss the issues related to the reopening of schools. “Then we will put before the federal government our findings and suggestions,” he said, adding that they quite frankly had no idea about how long the coronavirus pandemic would last and for how long they would have to keep educational institutions closed.

Pouring globs of sanitiser on his hands during the press conference, the education minister said that life had changed due to the global pandemic “and we will also need to change our ways of living. But that does not mean that we will discriminate [against] students from getting education. They may not be able to attend schools in person but there is the option of studying online. We also understand that all students don’t have the facilities to study online and our government schools also don’t have the capacity to teach them that way. We are looking into all these things and we will announce a system that should work for all in a few days,” he said.

He said that to teach students online they also had to train teachers. Then there are internet issues; signals don’t reach in certain areas for which they have also been talking to cellular companies. He said they are also working on coming up with some phone apps. “It will be fine for teachers to come to schools to receive their training,” he said, adding that they were examining various models and educating systems. “Different areas of the province have different circumstances which we have to keep in mind,” he said, adding that the most desirable thing was to have a uniform education system for all of Pakistan. “But while the Sindh government is quick with coming up with solutions the other provinces lag behind.”

Answering a question about school fees, he said that there are thousands of private schools and teachers who number in hundreds of thousands. “We have told all schools to pay their staff their salaries in full, and this many of them did even after giving parents relief of 20 per cent monthly in school fees. But one must also understand that the schools need fees to pay their teachers and staff. It won’t help anyone if the schools start throwing out students over non-payment of fees and firing teachers too because they are unable to pay them their salaries. Then the students will be the ultimate losers,” he said.

Published in Dawn, May 13th, 2020