initiation of Young Designers is one of many activities from THTI which intends to promote and develop personnel in production and fashion design of Thai clothings for having competitive capacity in the world stage, and develop them to be commercial products. THTI has so far enhanced personnel in fashion design to fashion design students, including entrepreneurs in textile and garment industry. Designers and interested people can join a training and improve their skills in various styles from THTI. The institute opens for applications and selects participants from many educational institutes, such as vocational training schools, university education and people in general who have designing skill. According to the project, they have an opportunity to have their products displayed and to be accepted. The institute selects a representative from 5 regions, and we have application centers in 5 regions to arrange a training, e.g., the north (Chiang Mai), the central (Bangkok), the north east (Khon Khaen), the east (Chonburi) and the South (Hatyai). After getting a representative from each region, we will hold a last retraining on competition technique, then arrange a final round by setting up a competition of their work and decide from real sales. THTI performed these activities/projects below:

After finishing projects or activities above, THTI is willing to support and push ahead with its projects to be more concrete by taking products won the first prize from each activities to compete in an international stage continually, for example:

From each time that THTI took a winning prize to an international stage, we got a concrete result. We all should congratulate with it because a product of Thai designer, which was promoted by THTI, got a prize and made a reputation to Thailand among Asia and around the world. In 2002, Thailand recieved a second prize from Asian Young Designer Contest held in Singapore. In 2003, we also won a prize from a work called “Avant Garde” from the ‘World of Wearable Awards (WOW)” in New Zealand. And in 2004, we got the first prize from “Sigapore Fashion Week” held in Singapore. Moerover, in the year of 2004, THTI sent pieces of work from the projects to compete in the World of Wearable Art Awards (WOW) in New Zealand, and Thai designers won 4 prizes below:

First prize in Children’s Dress, and in Magic Underwear

Second prize in Reflective Material of Surface, and first prize in creative work called “Fly of Memory”

From results of each activity above, the institute realized an important of personnel development by supporting and pushing personnel in textile and garment industry to have more potential, competitive for the world stage, and more added value to Thai textile products for increasing an export and being more accepted in the world.

“Human resource development in Textile and garment industry” is one of THTI’s missions that we will seriously and consistently carry out. The past performance, THTI received cooperation from both government and private sector, including entrepreneurs in textile and garment industry who supported the helpful projects to run smoothly, so all projects have been well succeeded according to the objective. ??