Released on: December 19, 2007, 8:08 pm

Press Release Author: yengkhom

Industry: Apparel & Fashion

Press Release Summary: a press conference on 19th December 2007 at 4:00 PM IST in
National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT), Delhi, Ministry of Textile,
Goverment of India. A Special event organised for Y. Daevson (momoo) an alumni of
NIFT, who has invented \"bemm\" a seamless woven garment making machine, that makes
woven seamless garments. Its a unique combination of fashion and innovation with
technological development. He unveiled this collection for the first time.

Press Release Body: New Delhi, 19 December 2007:

Fusing creativity with technology is his biggest contribution to the fashion
industry. Yengkhom Daevson, the designer and the inventor of Seamless Woven Garment
machine (SWG) today unveiled his Autumn Future Collection at the NIFT campus, New
Delhi.

The show called 'SKIN' was unique in the sense that the garments exhibited were all
made by Devson himself using the machine he invented. "It is a unique combination of
fashion innovation with technological development", said Sr. Professor Asha Baxi of
NIFT, New Delhi.

During the last couple of years, Devson has been concentrating in upgrading his
unique invention called BEMM, a seamless weaving garment machine named after his
sister. Developed during his final year at NIFT, this innovative machine has been
granted a patent in India and an application has been filed for Patent Cooperation
Treaty or PCT in few countries. The fund for improving BEMM has been granted by
TePP, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India.

The up gradation started with the idea of using engineering drawing as one
pioneering way of pattern making with an aim to achieve the production of 3D
mechanical and voluminous garments. It explores techniques and mechanisms to
overcome difficulties in making a garment with limited resources. The machine BEMM
slashes down the number of steps taken in traditional garment making and reduces the
production time in addition to cost cutting.

Explaining the usefulness of his invention, Devson said "In garment designing, the
right choice of fabric for a particular design is needed. When designers are unable
to find the right fabric, they either replace the first choice with a similar one or
end up choosing a totally different fabric for the design. Since high-quality
execution of designs also depends on few skilled tailors and other professional
staff, there is this unavoidable tendency to spend more on the production process
impacting on the cost of the final product." Now, his invention of futuristic BEMM
promises to overcome these hurdles.

Yengkhom Daevson, also known as Momoo, was born in Manipur. After finishing school,
Momoo was trained as a Mechanical Engineer at the Dr. AIT Ambedkar Institute of
Technology, Bangalore (now Bengalaroo). With dreams nurtured in his heart, he found
his true calling in Fashion Designing and left the engineering course mid-way. Momoo
passed out of the National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT), Mumbai in 2002.

Daevson's contributions have been appreciated at different stages of his journey. He
received the Most Innovative Garment Construction Award in the NIFT graduation show,
2002. He hit the limelight when he won the Best Designer Award at the GenArt
International Design Competition held in New York 2003. He had also designed some
collection for the Durban Fashion Week in 2006. In the same year, Daevson was one of
the few selected designers from India who participated at the World of Wearable Art
Design Competition, New Zealand. He bagged the Most Innovative Designer Product
award for his work in Seamless Woven Garments (SWG) at the North-East Trade Expo,
2005, held in New Delhi.

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