Favorite India Fashion Links

India Fashion Industry : The Apparel Search directory contains information regarding various segments on the India fashion industry.

India Fashion Group : The India Fashion Group is a discussion forum for members of the Indian fashion community to communicate with one another regarding the subject of textiles and fashion sold, manufactured, or designed in India or from Indian designers living around the world.

Images Fashion : At the very onset, imagesfashion.com strives to provide a balance of timely, credible business news and key fashion trends to a dedicated readership. This readership primarily includes retailers, designers, manufacturers, marketers, financiers and analysts. Imagesfashion.com will serve as the voice of authority on fashion trends, analysis and forecasts, national newswire and an active agent of change for the fashion and retail industries. The companies in depth analysis and research based features and spirited coverage makes them a leader.  Apart from the ImagesFashion.com website, the images group has other properties that make it one of India's biggest media conglomerate today.

IndiaMart : IndiaMART.com is India's largest online B2B marketplace for Small & Medium Size Businesses, connecting global buyers with suppliers. The company offers a platform & tools to over 1 million suppliers to generate business leads from over 5 million buyers, who use the platform to find reliable & competitive suppliers. The company has over 4000 employees located across 75 offices in the country. Its existing investors include Intel Capital and Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd.  IndiaMART.com offers products that enable small & medium size businesses generate business leads (online catalogs/store-fronts), establish their credibility (third party verified trust profile) and use business information (finance, news, trade shows, tenders) for their business promotion.

Fashion Design Council of India : Fashion Design Council of India (FDCI), is the apex body of fashion design in India, represented by over 350 members. Founded on the premise of promoting, nurturing and representing the best of fashion design talent in the country; its prime objective is to propagate the Business of Fashion.  The Fashion Design Council of India is the nodal point for activities with the government and works closely with various Ministries. The Ministry of Commerce and Industry is supporting the FDCI initiative this season, by collaborating to facilitate international trade at the upcoming edition of Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week, Autumn Winter 2011.  In the process of taking Indian Fashion to Global level, FDCI advises and assists fashion designers, retailers, models, make-up artists, hair stylists, choreographers and manufacturers in raising professional standards and improving business practices while creating domestic and international opportunities. It works at creating mutually beneficial tie-ups with similar councils in international fashion destinations and also with business worldwide.  FDCI as part of its initiatives produces a calendar of fashion events that includes the bi-annual Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week, Van Heusen India Men's Week, Pearl's Infrastructure India Couture Week in New Delhi and HDIL India Couture Week in Mumbai. Over the years, FDCI has embarked on various path-breaking initiatives to cultivate and nurture designers and their businesses, and make Indian fashion global. 

FTV India - Fashion TV India

MSN India Lifestyle : MSN has an India lifestyle section.  The area of their website has information about India fashion.

Vogue India : For over 100 years, Condé Nast has produced some of the finest, most successful magazines worldwide, from iconic brands such as VOGUE, GQ, Vanity Fair and Glamour to Condé Nast Traveller. Condé Nast, a division of Advance Publications, sets the benchmark for magazine publishing excellence. Condé Nast currently operates in 25 countries, publishing 123 magazines along with 70 innovative websites from Condé Nast Digital. In India, Conde Nast, a 100% owned subsidiary of Conde Nast International, launched Vogue in 2007, GQ in 2009 and is soon to launch Condé Nast Traveller in October 2010.