Fashion designer wins entrepreneurs' award `Creative Future 2007'
12 Feb '07
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Fashion and accessory designer Priya Patil from Mumbai won the `Creative Future 2007', a programme held to identify and nurture young creative entrepreneurs undertaken by the British Council.
Her business ideas on scarves for women was adjudged the best creation from amongst 1,100 Indians to win cash award of £ 3,000 and a specially crafted glass bowl at the award ceremony in the Experimental Theatre, NCPA, on Thursday.
She is a National Institute of Fashion Technology diploma and masters degree holder in Fashion and Textiles from Nottingham Trent University.
A two-week residential course at the Creative Future School in the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIM-B) was organized for the 20 finalists.
The training was to teach them on how to turn a creative idea into a viable business proposition,
Creative Future programme was organized jointly by British Council, IIM-B, the Creative Industries Development Agency, and the Commonwealth Business Council.
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