Inter National Institute of Fashion Design (INIFD) will open more than 300 franchise centers in the next two years. INIFD is the world’s largest network of Design Institutes.
Currently, INIFD has 184 centres. It is planning to open franchise centers in tier-2 and tier-3 cities. Anil Khosla, CEO of INIFD, said, "Our target is to reach 500 centers during the next two years period."
Sanjay Saraswath, INIFD Region Director, said, "We are looking to open 40 more franchise centres in two Telugu states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh including the cities of Guntur, Vijayawada, Vishakhapatnam, Karimnagar, Warangal, Kakinada, Khammam, Nalgonda and other potential cities. Our aim is to take Fashion Designing to masses that are where the talent is."
Ritu Kochchar, Director of INIFD, has said that INIFD started an online fashion design course 'Learn from Manish Malhotra', where Manish Malhotra shares all his experiences and insights into the world of Fashion.
"Our major aim in launching it is taking Fashion Design to masses. The portal already has 3500 students. We aim to reach one lakh enrolments in next one year. The fee is out most reasonably at Rs 10,000. We are the only institute in the country of offer online certificate program. Manish Malhotra will give a certificate at the end of the program," she added.
