fashion week focuses on designers who inspire empower and upskill the community and pave the way for the society to enjoy a sustainable relationship with fashion each one of these pioneers has a story to tell these designers have been trailblazers of ethical sourcing sustainable fashion upcycling handmade creations and natural fabrics which are highly relevant to people across all segments of society in addition to designers bangalore times fashion week also features artisans who feel passionate about sustainable fashionpavithra muddayapavithra muddaya established vimor in 1974 selling old temple sarees auctioned by temples when these sarees began dwindling she shifted her focus to recreating them keeping in mind the scalability and financial returns of the designs vimor started training and encouraging small town weavers to recreate and produce traditional marketable sarees that suited our aesthetic sensibilities design is central to vimors work and pavithra continues to be actively involved in documenting design motifs and weaving techniques vimor hand holds small time weavers to turn them into entrepreneurs manish saksenamanish saksena has created landmark changes in the lifestyle industry in india through his experience in new and different formats of retail from leading the growth expansion and profitability of the iconic brand tommy hilfiger in india for 6 years as coo for its india operations he made his foray into the ecommerce environment with limeroadcom amazon while pursuing his passion to design and sell sarees to the discerning manish saksena contemporizes the fine chequered kota fabric with colour blocked south indian motifs in his collectiona hundred handsa hundred hands is a nonprofit organisation that takes pride in creating a world that celebrates the pleasures of handmade crafts in homes and daily lives and helps artists earn fairly and sustainably the ngo employs approximately 40000 weavers who enjoy working with their hands making things themselves and thrive on the deep sense of satisfaction it offers bangalore times fashion week will also have a stall of a hundred hands where guests can purchase unique handcrafted creationsprasanna heggodua homegrown theatre personality prasanna is hailed for empowering the community in his village of heggodu in karnataka he has transformed the village into a khadi handloom spinning weaving centre and created a printing and vegetable dyeing facility that is considered a textbook example of a self sustaining economy today the villagers of heggodu run a bouquet of sustainable brands like charaka desi under his stewardshipa profusion of talentthe sixth edition of bangalore times fashion week also features several other renowned designers like nageeshwar c sui daaga prem anand stephen tirang rina singh yamuna govind kumar singh jayanthi ballal manju taparia indralokk and vishwas jewellersparterning in stylechingari one of indias fastest growing shortvideo apps known for attracting genuine talent from across india is associated with bangalore times fashion week as short video app partner to ensure an affair thats bestinclass and stylishly unforgettable chingari recently announced the bangaloretimesfashionweek contest for users where 3 lucky winners will get a chance to walk