LIFT offers internships for students at their exclusive boutique
View(s):Fashion, the multibillion dollar business in the world is a part of every individual’s life today. Fashion professionals around the world strive to keep up to the ever changing needs of the customers with new trends every season. Training new designers to the industry was the vision of Lanka Institute of fashion technology (LIFT) over the past 12 years. This year LIFT broadens its vision to support students with in-house internships.
Students have the choice of deciding their future career and deciding where they want to be placed for in plant training. The ones who wish to design for international brands which are mass produced, join leading garment manufacturers and some who wish to work for exclusive designer wear or to setup their own businesses remains at LIFT to work at the institute boutique (LIFT Designer wear).
LIFT Designer wear was formed a year ago to promote new designers. Women’s wear formals, semi formals, office and casuals are available at the boutique. The collections are available to view online at www.lift.lk, and it operates from 10 am to 6 pm on week days.
Internship at the LIFT Designer wear boutique gives a student the opportunity of experiencing on studio work from conceptualising to design development to production, selling and meeting customers.
“We have introduced in-plant training for all our students, as a part of the full time course they study, so that they learn the real working environment from design to production as a designer in the design studio. This initiative is done by the brand owned by the institute, Niro& Nelo. It allows students to work in the studio of LIFT Designer wear Boutique for three to four weeks. The experience they gain by working alongside the design & production team is a fine tuning for a student designer before they realise their final collection that they produce for the examination” says the managing director, Niroshani Leanage
“Our graduates have the opportunity to work for a designer brand before they would even graduate and the experience they gain leads them to choose their careers with much ease. Niro & Nelo brand under LIFT designer wear has also open opportunities for employment for design graduates. We have also linked the new entrepreneurs who set up design & production units on their own to be a part of the boutique where they will have continuous orders flowing to their ventures. The Aim of our boutique LIFT Designer wear and the brand Niro & Nelo is to provide careers in fashion for LIFT graduates to uplift the young generation of designers, encourage new fashion businesses and fashion entrepreneurs” Niroshani mentioned.
LIFT offers formal fashion education for students after O/L’s or A/L’s in many pathways. Advanced Diploma in Fashion Design, Advanced Diploma in Textiles for Fashion, Advanced Diploma in Footwear and Accessory Design & Foundation in Art & design. LIFT also offers working individuals courses on Saturdays such as the Diploma in Fashion Design and Fashion Marketing. LIFT will unveil new course options for 2013 in January next year.
The institute has made strong grounds in a competitive market to sustainability with the unique service they provide and the unique product (the designers) they produce. Students have proved this over the years winning competitions and reaching successful careers in Sri Lanka and overseas. The flexibility and the choice that LIFT offers for their graduates to complete the final year of the degree in the United Kingdom has offered them the choice & experience of world class education.
Introducing new ventures for their graduates Lanka Institute of Fashion Technology (LIFT) prides being the only fashion education institute in the country that provides in-house internships for their designers.
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