Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 7: In an effort to provide a much needed exposure to the youth of Jammu about the fashion and glamour industry, the National Institute of Fashion Design (NIFD) Jammu organized a two-day seminar on the topic “Design your Career Design your Life”, today.
The entire session was centered on the amalgamation of soft skills, your physical presentation personality, grooming, language training, goal settings and various innumerable topics that are a must in both fast emerging public and private sectors today.
The resource personalities of the seminar are Pallab Bose, who has a vast experience of 27 years in the field of training and is an international motivational speaker, emcee, career guru, worked in the entertainment industry, grooming contestants for beauty pageants, news anchor in many channels and radio jockey.
The second speaker Aprajita Sharma is a renowned fashion model and top 10 finalists of Femina Miss India. She has walked the ramp for all fashion ‘weeks and big-labeled designers. She has also represented India in Asian Supermodel contest, held in China where she bagged the Miss Congeniality Award.
The seminar was bifurcated into a two-day program. On the first day, the guest speaker and the star attraction, Pallab Bose, threw light on personality interface, goal setting, talent and skills.
Apart from this, he also magnified the lucrativeness of getting into fashion design and interior design courses and the reason of courses like these to become hot cakes.
He also talked about the contribution of NIDF and its Chairperson Vanita Thakur for being a stepping stone and fashion pioneer in Jammu.
Aprajita Sharma took the second session and mentored Jammuites by showing them the ways to invest on the soft skills, as this can be really productive in the long run.
Speaking on the occasion, Vanita Thakur reassured the youth of Jammu to make them familiar with such personalities and such exposures.
She also spoke about their upcoming costume show on July 7, wherein all the super models are coming from Mumbai.
“I am giving platform to 8 male models of the host State to walk the ramp with super models and work ahead”, Thakur said, adding that the auditions for the same were held today evening and conducted by Aprajita and Pallab Bose. The selected will be giving a grilling grooming session tomorrow afternoon onwards, she added.