Meghalaya's Fashion Industry Success

The very cozy Meghalaya, is now getting hot with it's flourishing fashion industry. Maghalaya now boasts a host of fashion houses.

Fashion houses selling trendy attire and accessories are mushrooming at Meghalaya. One of the major contributors to the upliftment of the fashion industry is the Fashion Society Shillong, which is a non-profit organization and have been promoting designers, models and weavers of the North East for the past 25 years.

"Fashion has developed in the region by leaps and bounds. With the subject taking popularity with the changing fashion technology, and students go for designing not only in Meghalaya but in other parts of the state as well," said Aldous Mawlong, Chairman, Fashion Society Shillong.

This boom has gained more focus on the western and Indian mainland trends. It has also added an additional source of business to the local weaves, local motifs, and some of them have made designs to blend in fusion. All this promises a greater success ahead.

Maghalaya fashion industry is attracting scores of models and designers. One of the models, Dristi Parna Mahanta, said, "Yes, there is a lot of scope of fashion not only for me, but all the models if they take fashion seriously."

Miss North East Pageant has become an annual feature on the region's calendar and also attracts a lot of tourists.