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Eco-friendly khadi catches budding designers' imagination
by Suresh Soni

        Rajkot: Taking cue from the latest trends of going 'green' budding designers in Gujarat used 'Khadi', an eco-friendly handspun fabric for their latest creations. The students of fashion designing said that Khadi wears brought full circle to the days immediately preceding independence when Mahatma Gandhi had called Khadi soul of nation. The creations by these students are to be showcased during a fashion show scheduled to coincide with the death anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. "People use various fabrics for their clothes, but Khadi has not been experimented with that much as yet. There are hundreds of varieties of khadi available, so we thought that we could make dresses like capri and saree. Our designs have turned out to be innovative," said Riddhi, a fashion-designing student. Khadi, a versatile fabric, is natural and handspun and hand woven from excellent fibres of cotton, silk and wool or a combination of at least two fibers. With the youth increasingly taking to Khadi, those who have always endorsed the fabric feel vindicated. "We want that Khadi should be presented to the nation in a new manner. The young generation should be acquainted with the fabric. We are happy that the friends group in the city has come forward to promote Khadi. We are supporting them and these people have organised a fashion show on January 30," said Devendra Bhai Desai, a man at a Khadi clothes shop. 'Khadi', was symbol of non-violent opposition to the British colonial rule. It soon became a household creation following his clarion call during freedom struggle.
-Jan 20, 2009

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