India Fashion Forum Returns to Gurugram For its Twenty-First Edition

The biggest fashion retail intelligence event in India is returning in a big way!

National, March 2022: IMAGES Group, the leading retail intelligence organisation in South Asia and the Middle East, will host the 21st edition of India Fashion Forum, the country's largest fashion retail intelligence event, on March 23rd and 24th, 2022, at The Leela Ambience in Gurugram.

India Fashion Forum, the premier knowledge and networking platform for India's vast, multidimensional, and multi-hued fashion retail industry, will highlight the themes of purpose, innovation, experience, and engagement as tenets of future-proof, profitable fashion retail in its twenty-first edition.

Saloni Nangia, President Technopak, will moderate a conversation on fashion retail sector insights, followed by an introduction by MC Anish Trivedi, President & CEO, Alenka Media. Following that, IFF Chairman Akhilesh Prasad, President & CEO, Reliance Retail's Fashion & Lifestyle Business, will deliver a welcoming speech. 

The first panel will concentrate on developing future-proof fashion retail models that are meaningful, innovative, and lucrative, with an emphasis on how the revolution spreading throughout the consumer universe is having a significant impact on the fashion company.

The event seeks to provide an unparalleled atmosphere for great, mind-blowing innovation in the fashion sector, from agile design tools to spectacular in-store tech influencers, from the dynamic science of fashion retail analytics to hyper-targeted social marketing.

B S Nagesh, Founder, TRRAIN; Dr Darlie O Koshy, Educationist and Design Management Strategist; Sanjeev Rao, CEO, Being Human Clothing; Vineet Gautam, Country Head & CEO, Bestseller India; Lavanya Nalli, Chairperson, Nalli Group; Nitya Arora, Founder & Creative Director, Valliyan; Sahil Malik, MD, Da Milano; Johnson Verghese

Bhavesh Pitroda, Director & CEO, IMAGES Group, comments on the significance of IFF's role in catalysing Indian fashion retail:

"As a key influencer and catalyst of fashion retail evolution in India, this will be a significant year for us, given the world's recent unprecedented and trying pandemic times." 

"We want to preview major debates around fashion retail realignment with linked consumption, turning change to progress, sustainable fashion, next-generation retail environments, mall-retailer collaborations to drive consumption, and everything in between. Apart from these, the event will cover a variety of other critical topics, including the 360-degree view of the shopping trip, building a successful online-offline company via omnichannel retail, fashion innovation through artificial intelligence, luxury fashion, and customer experience."

Significant Points:

• There are about 500 distinct fashion brands and enterprises represented.
• Over the course of two days, twenty conference sessions, debates, and discussions will take place.
• There will be over 100 presenters representing fashion retail functions such as sourcing, business development, operations, product innovation, retail innovation, and technology.

About India Fashion Forum:

India Fashion Forum (IFF), founded in 2000, is India's biggest fashion retail intelligence event.

Each year, IFF brings together the most significant consumer trends, market information, and retail innovation in the Indian fashion sector via a potent combination of conference sessions, seminars and master courses, zonal displays, and industry awards. 

Through a world-class mix of keynote addresses, panel discussions, CEOs Roundtables, presentations, knowledge series sessions, and workshops, this edition of IFF Conference will provide unparalleled insights from international and Indian industry experts, academics, global fashion research majors, and analysts. Four thematic exhibition platforms — Fashion Sourcing, L Cube, Asia Shop, and India Brand Show — will showcase the most cutting-edge fashion ingredients, design innovation, technology, retail strategies, and solutions to a global gathering of fashion industry professionals from India and other countries.

Click here to download the India Fashion Forum Agenda.