It was yet another feather on his cap for mechanical engineer-turned-designer Yengkhom Devson Singh of Manipur. This young designer won the Eclipse Flash Design Vision Award for Women’s Avant Garde in the annual international design competition organized by New York based Gen Art on April 22, 2003 at the Hammerstein Ballroom, New York City.
Devson won the coveted award against some stiff competition from four other finalists from France, Argentina, Canada and New York.
The competition was organized under the banner of Gen Art Styles 2003 was held in five categories - Eveningwear, Accessories, Ready to Wear, Menswear and Avant Garde.
Devson is currently associated with Naina's, a Mumbai based fashion house. He is the eldest son of Yengkhom Puskar and Yumnam Nalini of Lilong. He has one younger sister.
After his degree in Mechanical Engineering from Dr. AIT, Bangalore, Devson completed his graduation in fashion designing from the prestigious NIFT, Mumbai last year.
Earlier, Devson has also won the Best Creative and Innovative Garment Construction Award in NIFT 2002 collection. He had worked for more than 50 fashion shows with top fashion designers of India, including Rohit Bal, JJ Valya, Ritu Kumar and Manish Malhotra. He also had done a portfolio for FEMINA magazine. He had personally worked with movie producer, director and actor Sachin. His specialization is couture and theatrical costumes. Devson wish to open a fashion house of his own in the near future.
Pushkar, father of Devson told this correspondent that they have never encouraged his son to pursue his career in fashion designing after the completion of 10+2. Instead they have forced him to continue his study in engineering. However, they could not stop Devson from his interest on fashion designing. After completing his degree in engineering, he joined NIFT, Mumbai. Since then he has never looked back, Pushkar said.
As Devson had a vision and earned a reputation, his parents are now providing full support to their very talented son.
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