Head of Department Fashion Design Belinda Watt says the trip “will develop key principles of sustainability embedded in the Whitecliffe College of Fashion and Sustainability BFA programme.”
Students Bianca Lim-Yip, Thomas Munday, Louis Cooper, Anna Frugone, Zorica Salic, Kayla Rousselle, Kelsey Allott, Ophelia Kingdon, Jana Stanojevich, Melissa Albom, Jay Moore and Payal Patel will travel through Ahmedabad, Bhuj, West Bengal and New Dehli.
Their schedule includes such crafts as embroidery, block printing and weaving, and a variety of visits including to textile and craft museums, mills, organic cotton farms and silk production plants.
The esteemed scholarships from the NZ Government are supported by Education NZ and aim to establish and build connections between New Zealand and other countries. Whitecliffe are pleased to be recipients of such a rewarding opportunity again this year.