Project to help forecast fashion trends on the anvil:Irani

A project that will help India forecast fashion trends on its own is on the anvil, Union Minister Smriti Irani said Thursday.

Inaugurating a Student Multi-Activity Centre and Girls Hostel at the NIFT-Chennai campus, Irani said, "Let me say this, one of the first attempts in Indian fashion and textile industry to forecast fashion, use of fabric, colour will find a foot in this campus of NIFT Chennai."
Even a regular tailor can have a sense of trend and understand it, but who is going to consolidate such information or who has access to such information..."