New Delhi, Keeping up with their trend to nurtured fresh fashion talent, Indian Federation For Fashion Development (IFFD) has announced the latest group of young designers. Ten designers are in the New-Gen Designer frame & eight designers are in budding designer category for the summer 2015 shows, which will be shown at Asia’s youngest fashion trade event, India Runway Week Season 4.

This season the selection of the New-Gen & Budding designers were made from 250+ submissions. IFFD chose these designers basis some key criteria that included quality, innovation, marketability, and ability to legitimately take their business to the next level.

“The increased number of entries along with the continued growth of the India Runway Week reaffirms the platform’s stature in terms of relevance and reach in the Indian fashion market” Said Kiran Kheva, Fashion Director, IFFD.

Vanica Chhabra, Farzana Rahman, Rifali Chandra, Surbhi Jain, Sanya Garg, Rahul Kapoor, Jigar and Paneri Gosar, Govinda Raju, Neha Yadav, Sweta Kedia have been shortlisted in New-Gen category.

Suvagata Saha and Rohan Pariyar, Bani Khurana, Masumi Mewawalla, Vishala Shree, Sanyuktha Venkatachalam, Manish Patel, Anup Bisani are there in budding designer category.

Avinash Pathania, Founder, IFFD said “IFFD has nurtured fresh fashion talent over 3 seasons of India Runway Week and provided them with an opportunity to showcase their creativity.  Each season the designers have been mentored by IFFD and we expect them to grow to their fullest potential while maintaining their individuality.”