Robert Naorem nominated for Bangkok event
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, August 23 2022:
Embassy of India, Bangkok has nominated Manipur origin fashion designer Robert Naorem to represent India at the 3rd International Thai Silk Fashion Week to be held in Bangkok, Thailand.
The Fashion Week will be held from December 1 to 5 and it will be organised by Association of Thai Silk & Culture Promotions, Bangkok.
Around 48 fashion designers from different countries will take part in the event for which an orientation programme for the fashion week will begin from November 29 .
Regarding the fashion week, Robert Naorem told media persons on Tuesday at Robert Naorem Studio and Academy, Uripok that he has been nominated by the Embassy of India, Bangkok to take part in the international fashion week.
Stating that it would his biggest opportunity to expose handloom and textile products of Manipur at the international level, Robert informed that the event will showcase the mix designs of Indian and Thailand textiles for which the Thailand government will send Royal Thai silk before the event.
He also said that he decided to expose Manipuri textile at the event as representative of Indian textile.
Designs of the event will be kept at museum after the end of the fashion week, he added.