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Foundry launches exclusively on AJIO
Mumbai: Women’s ultra-fast Gen Z fashion brand, Foundry from Cover Story Clothing Ltd (CSCL) has launched and is now live exclusively on AJIO. A direct-to-consumer (D2C) fashion and accessories brand, Foundry offers fresh and affordable fashion.
Foundry, which launched with 1,500 styles, plans to scale it up to 6,000+ styles by next year. In addition, 50 new styles will be launched daily, so customers can have access to the latest fashion trends at attractive and affordable price points.
“Our focus on being first on trend allows us to remain at the forefront of the fashion landscape,” said Cover Story Clothing Ltd CEO & MD Manjula Tiwari. “To satisfy the changing needs of our customers, we are dedicated to consistently extending the scope of our offerings. As India’s most preferred shopping destination for Gen Z fashion shoppers, AJIO was our go-to launchpad for Foundry.”
With its distinctive, bold and stylish offerings, Foundry will be the go-to brand for young trendy shoppers across India. CSCL launched India’s first homegrown fast fashion brand, Cover Story back in 2016 and a lifestyle brand for modern Indian women, Ancestry in 2018.
Commenting on the launch, AJIO CEO Vineeth Nair said, “Over time, affordable fast fashion has been gaining momentum, especially among young shoppers with high style quotient. We’re excited to launch Foundry exclusively on AJIO and help bring to the customers affordable fashion that is trend-first and appeals to the young shoppers.”
Foundry’s impressive collection of fashion basics, including top wear, dresses, bottom wear, co-ord sets and outerwear are a must have for every fashion-forward shopper. To complete the look, the brand also delivers a wide selection of accessories including jewellery, caps and hats, bags, phone cases, hair accessories, scarves, and socks. With this diverse collection, Foundry empowers individuals to direct their unique and confident look for any occasion.
Foundry joins AJIO’s strong portfolio of international and homegrown brands offering customers a vast variety of handpicked and curated fashion styles. Over the years, AJIO has become one of the most popular fashion destinations and has witnessed multi-fold growth in active customer base and traffic.
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IICT partners with Gativedhi to bring studio production tools to students
New MoU lets students explore AI-driven production pipelines for AVGC-XR
MUMBAI: The Indian Institute of Creative Technologies (IICT) has teamed up with Gativedhi Technologies to give students a front-row seat to modern studio production. The collaboration will integrate Gativedhi’s AI-powered production intelligence platform, Shotrack, into academic programmes, letting students experience the workflow systems used by animation, VFX and gaming studios.
Under the MoU, faculty, students and researchers will get hands-on access to Shotrack through beta programmes, pilot deployments and academic evaluations. This will allow them to explore simulated production pipelines, understand asset management, track tasks and monitor schedules, essentially seeing how complex projects come together behind the scenes.
Shotrack is designed to tackle a key industry challenge: when multiple studios work on the same project, differing internal systems often create bottlenecks, slow approvals and complicate version control. The platform provides a unified production environment, enabling smoother collaboration across distributed teams while generating operational insights and predictive analytics to optimise crew allocation, forecast schedule risks and manage costs.
The collaboration also opens doors to Gativedhi’s wider ecosystem. Upcoming tools include StudioTrack, for studio operations management covering budgeting, recruitment and IT infrastructure, and WorkTrack, which measures workflow efficiency and team productivity across industries.
IICT plans to embed these tools into programmes covering animation pipelines, VFX workflows, gaming production and media project management. Students will also benefit from guest lectures, masterclasses, workshops, internships and research projects that connect academic learning with real-world studio practices.
IICT CEO Vishwas Deoskar, said the partnership provides “An environment where production pipeline tools can be explored, tested and refined while students gain insight into how large-scale productions are organised.”
Gativedhi Technologies founder & CEO Senthil Kumar added, “This collaboration introduces students to real-world studio management tools and helps us improve our platform with academic feedback.”
With Shotrack in classrooms, India’s future animators, VFX artists and gaming producers will get a taste of studio life long before they step into one.
