Textured Jersey awards designers from Moratuwa University
Three of Sri Lanka’s brightest fashion designers of the future have
been recognized with special awards for Creativity, Innovation and
Inspiration respectively by Textured Jersey PLC, the country’s largest
manufacturer of knitted fabric.
The three designers were chosen from 20 students who presented
designs when the 34 that made up the seventh batch of the University of
Moratuwa’s Bachelor of Design Degree in Fashion Design and Product
Development graduated recently.
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Designers
Chathura Sudarshan and Achala Leekoh with Rodney Arland, GM
Marketing and Supply Chain at Textured Jersey, Samadhi
Weerakoon, the company’s Business Development Manager and
Pubudu De Silva, GM Production, designer Adhini De Silva,
Sanjaya Basnayake, DGM Production at Textured Jersey and
Rajika Seneviratne, Merchandiser. |
One of the university’s principal partners from the industry,
Textured Jersey presented the ‘Creative Knitwear Designer award,’ the
‘Innovative Textile Fabric Designer award’ and the ‘Serendib
Inspirational award’ at the graduation ceremony at the Hilton Colombo.
The recipients of these special awards presented by the company as
part of its commitment to promoting sustainability, were Adhini De Silva
of Galle, Chathura Sudharshan of Bandaragama and Achala Leekoh of
Katubedda.
“Textured Jersey works very closely with the University of Moratuwa
to support the education of the undergraduates who will take Sri Lanka’s
fashion industry forward in the years ahead,” said Samadhi Weerakoon,
the company’s Business Development Manager. “We provide students with
the required training on production and textile engineering and supply
them with the materials to come up with their own designs. We believe
that the three areas chosen for our special awards are vital to the
future of Sri Lanka’s fashion industry.”
The graduation ceremony included a fashion show at which the final
year students of the Fashion Design and the Product Development Degree
presented their catwalk collections for 2013. Each collection, designed
to a theme and comprising of six complete new outfits, was based on
in-depth research of a particular market and a customer.
Adhini De Silva, who won the Textured Jersey Creative Knitwear
Designer award, produced a collection of women’s occasional knitwear
under the concept of ‘Ebony Dreaming’ for the spring- summer of 2014 for
the brand name of ‘Ekaterina Kukhareva.’
The winner of the Textured Jersey Innovative Textile Fabric Designer
award Chathura Sudharshan used innovative textile fabrics to produce a
collection of mixed performance wear under the concept ‘Fantasy of
Mystic’ for the brand ‘ACIS Innovations.’
The Textured Jersey Serendib Inspirational award was won by Achala
Leekoh for her collection of women’sevening semi casual wear under the
concept of ‘Chronicle Robust’ for the ‘AKOH’ brand.
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