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Tête-à-Tête with designer ABDUL TAWAB
Shoes and Accessories
|August 2020
As one of India’s most avant-garde and exemplary footwear designers, Abdul Tawab shares his thoughts on the challenges designers need to address to stretch their minds and create futuristic propositions that might solve some of biggest problems facing the world today. Abdul has 20+yrs experience, commenced his career by launching his own label at LAKME FASHION WEEK’ 2008. Later he took up assignments with national and international brands like Ben Sherman, Original Penguin, Farah, Red Tape and Lee Cooper. Presently, he works as Head of Product and Design at WESTSIDE footwear.
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Its opportunity to think out of the box as a designer, bring some innovative ideas not only to product but how to market it.
Your take on the “stay-at-home economy” .
This economy is not going to help as far as fashion is concerned, fashion is all about socializing and I don’t agree with this online socialization at all.
This story is from the August 2020 edition of Shoes and Accessories.
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