25) Recycled Fashion

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Materials needed

Please note: VCUQatar reserves the right to cancel classes for which not enough participants are registered. Already paid fees will be refunded.

Please do not purchase materials until VCUQatar has sent final course confirmation.

Items to buy for this class

On occasions, there may be some more materials to be bought and brought in if and when advised by the instructor.

Where to buy your materials

Most of the materials are available from any art supply shop, for example:
  • Cass Art (Fire station): Community Classes students get a 15% discount upon presenting the registration ticket
  • Jarir Bookstore: on Rayyan Road or Salwa Road
  • Color Note: on Al Nasser Street
  • Ibn Al Qayyim: at Markhiya Roundabout
  • Al Rawnaq

Schedule

Start: Mon, 2 Feb, 2015
End: Mon, 23 Feb, 2015
Lessons: 4
Days: Mondays
Time: 5pm – 7pm
Location: VCUQatar, Room 241
Cost: QAR 425 / US$ 117

Instructors

Narita Pajni Mattock

Narita Pajni is currently an Assistant Professor of Fashion Design at VCUQ.  Over the past thirty years she has spent equal amounts of time working directly in the fashion industry and in academia. Narita led a team of designers creating traditional outfits, household linens, and craft items at the Punjab Women and Children Welfare and Development Corporation (PUNWAC), a government enterprise to revive the traditional craft and art of Punjab state, give employment to over 500 artisans across the state, and market their products via the Punjab State Emporia across India. She has taught in various design schools and universities in India, and chaired the Fashion Design Department at the International Institute of Fashion Design (INIFD) home campus in Chandigarh for seven years. Narita also served as a member of the Master’s Degree Dissertation Committee for Government Home Science College at Punjab University, and was also a member of the Dress Design Diploma Curriculum Committee at the same institution.

Narita has been associated with VCUQ since 2007, and has taught a wide range of subjects. She wrote a proposal for new academic regalia for Qatar Education City on the occasion of the first commencement exercises.  Qatar Foundation funded the proposal, the VCUQ Fashion Department conducted the project, and the resulting regalia were used in 2008 convocation exercise and every year since

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