Fashion Designers India, Indian Designers, Designer Boutiques

This page contains information of indian fashion designers, boutiques and popular fashion brands.

Abu Jani & Sandeep Khosla
Sandeep Khosla is a noted Indian fashion designer, who co-owns the label, Abu Jani-Sandeep Khosla. He is best known for his ability to infuse Indian craftsmanship and textile heritage with European tailored silhouette.
His signature is to combine traditional aesthetics with modern design.

Aki Narula
Aki Narula has been in the fashion business for many years. He is also the recipient of the Damania Fashion Designer Award, Narula`s designs are understated

Anamika Khanna
Anamika started designing without any formal training. She jumpstarted her career by winning the Damania Fashion Awards, which bought her

Anita Dongre
Anita Dongre has been a part of the fashion industry for the past 15 years. Anita Dongre was always attracted towards the world of fashion immediately after her school.

Anand Kabra
Anand Kabra is born in a Marwari family. His father is a doctor. He enrolled for medicine but opted out after his first year. He then went to London School of Fashion to pursue fashion designing.
Anand Kabra is greatly influenced by Indian clothes especially Hyderabad designs like Kara Dupatta, Zardozi, etc.
He is based out of Hyderabad.

Ana Singh
Ana Singh is an Indian fashion designer, mainly working for the Indian movie industry Bollywood.She has designed costumes for more than 900 films[2] and has been working since 1989. In 2002 she was the first fashion designer to introduce actress Katrina Kaif in her show as a model. In 2010, she designed the clothes for the actors who participated in the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games in India.

 

 

Agnimitra Paul
Agnimitra Paul is an Indian fashion designer and politician primarily based in Calcutta and also works actively in the Bollywood industry. She is the President of BJP Mahila Morcha West Bengal


Anjana Bhargav
Anjana started designing for her friends. With a formal degree in Textile Designing and Pattern Cutting with a French Instructor and a course from the prestigious St. Martins College..

Anuradha Vakil
Anuradha is known more of a revivalist of textile crafts than a `fashion designer`, simply because the base of her designs are always traditional 

Aparna Chandra
Aparna is a 1992 batch fashion design graduate of National Institute of Fashion Technology. She is one of India`s most promising & talented fashion designers 

Aparna Jagdhari
After graduating from NIFT, Delhi Aparna Jagdhari worked on product, computer aided design, textile-weaving projects and designed costumes for several.. 

Arjun Khanna
Graduating from the American College of fashion in London, art had always been Arjun Khanna`s first love - the only subject he excelled in since childhood. 

Ashima and Leena Singh
Ashima is a B.Com. Graduate from Shri Ram College. She passed out from NIFT winning `The Best Student Award`. Leena on the other hand 

Ashish Soni
Ashish Soni graduated with a bachelor`s degree in Design & Clothing Technology from NIFT, New Delhi in 1991. In the early nineties, Ashish Soni

Asmita Marwa
Asmita Marwa is an Indian fashion designer, rated by Vogue as one of nine top up-and-coming international designers. Asmita Marwa believes in fusing the traditional with the global. Her eclectic and vibrant avatar of Kalamkari took the fashion world by storm.Asmita Marwa`s fashion label is sustainable, and the garments are created and manufactured using ethical norms and practices.Marwa began designing clothes in Hyderabad in the 1990s. She was the first Hyderabad designer to enter the Telugu film industry. Numerous actors, including Nagarjuna, Balakrishna, Preity Zinta, Anjala Zaveri, Shriya, Mahesh Babu, Tabu, Asin, Charmy, and Anushka, have worn her clothes, in films like Manmadhudu, Santhosham, Premante Idera, Arjun, Attadu, Pokiri, and Gharshana.In December 2003 Marwa launched a fashion label, Asmita, sold through her signature store Reves d’Etoile and at "xlnc" in Hyderabad and "Aza Fashions" in Mumbai and Delhi. Marwa`s designs for Asmita featured in the Blenders Pride Fashion Fringe Show in 2004.In 2008 she took part in the Lakme Fashion Week.

 

Azeem Khan
Fashion designer Azeem Khan is one of the innovators of Mumbai`s Coho, with his cool and snazzy boutique next to the Colaba Post Office, and with his background of a being a real New York City Soho inhabitant, living and working downtown. "Our family S.U. Zariwala has had its operations here for three generations.

 

Bibhu Mohapatra
In 2008 Mohapatra resigned from J. Mendel in order to establish his label,Bibhu Mohapatra -Purple Label. Since then, he has presented many collections of luxury women`s ready to wear,couture and fur under his name in New York, Mumbai, Frankfurt, Beijing, and New Delhi.His collections are sold by many boutiques around the world, including Bergdorf Goodman in New York,Neiman Marcus, SAKS, and Nordstrom in the United States, Lane Crawford in China, and other boutiques around the world.Mohapatra served as the primary costume designer for the Verdi opera Aida debuted during the 2012 Summer season at the Glimmerglass Opera in Cooperstown, NY.First Lady Michelle Obama is among Mohapatra`s clients.

 

Deepika Govind
Deepika Govind has a Degree in Arts from Mount Carmel College, Bangalore and a Masters in Economics at Stella Maris College, Madras. She attended the programme on sketching and presentations.



Eka Lakhani
Eka Lakhani is an Indian fashion costume designer, who has worked in the Hindi, Tamil and Telugu film industries. After beginning her career as an intern on the sets of Raavan, she has become director Mani Ratnam`s costume designer for his films since 2013.

 

Falguni & Shane Peacock
FALGUNI SHANE PEACOCK HAVE BUILT A CAREER IN FASHION BY FOLLOWING THEIR OWN SET OF RULES. THE SECRET OF THEIR SUCCESS IS THE UNIQUE AND UNUSUAL STYLING AND ATTENTION TO DETAIL, THEY GIVE TO EACH DESIGN TO CREATE “LUXURY”.“WE ENJOY THE CHALLENGE AND THE PROCESS THAT GOES INTO CREATING EACH AND EVERY FINISHED PRODUCT.ITS THE MINUTE ASPECTS AND THE SMALL UNEXPECTED TWISTS THAT FLAVOUR A GARMENT THAT MAKES IT UNIQUE. A DRESS MUST MAKE, IN AN INSTANT, A STATEMENT WITHOUT THE HELP OF ACCESSORIES.”FALGUNI SHANE PEACOCK BRAND CARRIES THE SIGNATURE USE OF FEATHERS, SEQUENCE AND PRINTS. INTEGRAL TO THE PEACOCK CULTURE IS THE JUXTAPOSITION BETWEEN CONTRASTING ELEMENTS: FRAGILITY AND STRENGTH, TRADITION AND MODERNITY, FLUIDITY AND SEVERITY.IN A BUSINESS CLIMATE THAT SAYS “CONTINUE TO DO OR DIE ” THE PEACOCK PHILOSOPHY BELIEVES THAT `LIFE IS TOO SHORT TO BLEND IN…’ WHICH THEY TRANSLATE INTO EACH AND EVERY CREATION BY MIXING FANTASY WITH REALITY.OUR SENSIBILITY, COMBINED WITH A TOUCH OF HIGH OCTANE GLAMOUR AND OUR DEVOTION TO ROCK AND ROLL – THE TRANSITION FROM CHIC TO EDGY,COMBINED WITH A SLIGHTLY WICKED CHARM MAKES OUR CLOTHES PERFECT FOR A ROCK AND ROLL SUPERSTAR.”WITH IMMEDIATE GOALS TO FURTHER EXPAND PEACOCK PRODUCT OFFERINGS AND RETAIL LOCATIONS GLOBALLY, THE PEACOCK’S LONG TERM STRATEGY INVOLVES CONTINUOUSLY GROWING THEIR FASHION EMPIRE INTO AN INTERNATIONAL LIFESTYLE BRAND, AND ESTABLISHING THE COMPANY AS A WORLDWIDE POWERHOUSE OF STYLE.

 

Hemant Trivedi
Hemant Trevedi is one of the brightest and leading versatile designers. He is a fashion stylist, choreographer, design professor and undoubtedly 

J. J. Valaya
JJ Valaya is regarded as one of the fashion czars in the industry. Born October 8 in Jodhpur, India, JJ Valaya, one of India`s most celebrated

Krishna Mehta
Krishna Mehta`s tryst with designing began in February 1982. Accomplishing the fashion-designing masters in 1987 from Sophia Polytechnic, Mumbai, Bachelor of Commerce.. 

 

Lalit Dalmia
Lalit Dalmia has dressed some of the leading Bollywood celebrities such as Esha Gupta,Gauahar Khan, Akshay Kumar,Isha Koppikar, Sunny Leone and Bollywood Film producer Aly Morani among several others. He has also dressed India`s multiple Grand Slam champion Leander Paes.Tennis sensation Damir Džumhur, Russia`s upcoming star Daniil Medvedev, US`s Nicholas Monroe and Indian rookie Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan in Aircel Chennai Open fashion show.Apart from this, Dalmia has led many fashion shows as a leading designer and received an immense response for his innovative launch activities and collection

 

Malini Ramani

Malini Ramani was born in New York, but came to India at the age of 11 and then her parents put her into a boarding school in the Himalayan Mountains (Sanawar). From the very start she.. 

Manish Malhotra
Manish Malhotra (5 December 1966) is a former Indian fashion designer turned costume designer and stylist, widely known for his works in Bollywood, Telugu cinema, Tamil cinema, Hollywood, and television.1998, he ventured into modelling and runway fashion designing with his couture Reverie-Manish Malhotra.He received appreciation for his glamorous ensembles using traditional colours, craftsmanship, texturesand embroideries presented at his first runway show in November 1999.In 2005, he launched his couture label Manish Malhotra which offers bridal, couture, diffusion and men`s wear collections and retails at two storesin Mumbai and New Delhi. The label also retails at multi-brand boutiques across India and in Dubai.Malhotra has been reported to have been inspired by Indian craftsmanship and promotes regional handicrafts and workmanship from rural India through his association with the ‘Mijwan Welfare Society’– an NGO founded by Late Kaifi Azmi and headed by Shabana Azmi and Namrata Goyal.In March 2017, the Philadelphia Museum of Art featured outfits from the Manish Malhotra 2013 couture collection


Manish Arora
Manish Arora is an Indian fashion designer based in New Delhi. In early 2011, he was appointed creative director of the womenswear collection of the French fashion house Paco Rabanne,although he left the company in May 2012Born and brought up in Mumbai, Manish was studying, when he decided to change his career path and applied for the National Institute of Fashion Technology in New Delhi. He graduated in 1994 after winning the Best Student Award in 1997 Manish launched his own label "Manish Arora" and started retailing in India.Three years later, he participated in the first-ever India Fashion Week held in New Delhi and represented India at the Hong Kong Fashion Week


Manoviraj Khosla
Manoviraj Khosla is an Indian fashion designer based in Bengaluru who retails under his eponymous label.He also works as a costume designer, whose work has featured in Indian films like Lessons in Forgetting.Khosla was educated at The Doon School in Dehradun, and then got a bachelor`s degree in commerce from.St. Xavier`s College, Kolkata. He then went to study fashion design at the American College for the Applied Arts in LondonKhosla launched his label in 1990, first producing menswear and later expanding to include womenswear.In 1995, Khosla launched his first `Kingfisher Line` in association with the UB Group.The Kingfisher Line was later reinterpreted and launched in different versions in 2003 and 2010. In 2011, Khosla showcased his line at the first Force India Octane Nights fashion show.Khosla`s style draws inspiration from both Indian and Western aesthetics, and focuses on experimenting with various cuts and fabrics.In contrast to luxury Indian couture labels, Khosla ensures affordability of the pieces produced under his label

 

Masaba Gupta

Masaba Gupta was born in 1989 and is the daughter of Indian actress Neena Gupta and West Indies cricketer Sir Viv Richards and grew up in Mumbai.Her parents never married and she was raised by her mother, who moved the family from New Delhi to Mumbai. Gupta found a father figure in her late maternal grandfather, and when she turned 20 she reconnected with her father and the two now share a strong bond.At the age of 8 she wanted to become a tennis player,but stopped training at 16.Passionate about dance and music, Gupta wanted to join Shiamak Davar`s dance group, but did not when her mother discouraged it.She subsequently took up a course in music and dance in London, but dropped out when she felt lonely and homesickAt 19, Gupta applied for Lakme Fashion Week in Mumbai with support from Wendell Rodricks. She named her first collection Kattran (English:miniature bits of fabric).Her Lakme Fashion Week 2014 collection "Wanderess" was "inspired by novelist Roman Payne’s doe-eyed gypsy girl character, Saskia" in his novel, The Wanderess.Gupta has become known for the creative and artistic names she gives each collection.

 

Monisha Jaising
Monisha Jaising graduated in 1989 from the American College for applied arts in London. She has been working as a designer cum manufacturer of ladies 

Naeem Khan
Naeem Khan is an Indian-American fashion designer known for his ornate and intricately detailed gowns, and for dressing First Lady Michelle Obama, Queen Noor of Jordan, and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge

Neeta Lulla
Neeta Lulla is an Indian costume designer and fashion stylist who has worked on over 300 films. She has been designing wedding dresses since 1985. Her name became inseparably associated with Bollywood after actresses Aishwarya Rai and Madhuri Dixit wore her costumes in Devdas, the trend-setting Bollywood film

Raghavendra Rathore
Raghavendra Rathore is an Indian fashion designer. He was one of the first designers to use the "Brand India" positioning for a fashion company. He also works in interior design, wedding and events design, accessories and jewellery 

Ranna Gill
Having completed an associate degree from NIFT New Delhi in 1991 Augmented this with a bachelor’s Degree from Fashion Institute of Technology, New York. Ranna’s formative years as an.. 

Rina Dhaka
Rina Dhaka has been a part and parcel of the Indian fashion scene for the past fifteen years. After college, Rina did a training project with Intercraft, and with designer Evan Grandhal..

Ritu Beri
Ritu Beri graduated from Delhi University in 1987 and during the break that followed, she was driven to find something with which she could occupy herself 

Ritu Kumar
Ritu Kumar began her fashion business in Kolkata, using two small tables and hand-block printing techniques. Beginning with bridal wear and evening clothes in the 1960s and 70s, she eventually moved into the international market in the subsequent two decades.As well as shops in India, Kumar`s company has also opened branches in Paris, London and New York. The London branch closed after three years, in 1999.Her company`s annual turnover at the time was the highest of any Indian fashion outlet, estimated at around ?10 billion. In 2002 she launched the "Label" line in partnership with her son Amrish.[6] Kumar discusses her career at length in a recent interview for the Creating Emerging Markets project at the Harvard Business School, beginning with how she first broke into the Paris and New York fashion houses and department stores in the 1970s.Kumar`s designs focus on natural fabrics and traditional printing and weaving techniques. She has also included Western elements in her work, but has generally not innovated beyond traditional sari designs.Her clothes have been worn by celebrities such as Princess Diana, Priyanka Chopra, Lara Dutta, Deepika Padukone, Madhuri Dixit Nene, Madhur Jaffrey, Kalki Koechlin, Dia Mirza, Soha Ali Khan and Jemima Goldsmith

Rocky S

Rocky S studied commerce in college, however he always had an inclination towards a more creative & artistic field. After formal training to the 

Rohit Bal
Rohit Bal started his career with his brother Rajiv Bal in New Delhi in 1986 the Company Orchid Oversea Pvt.Ltd, and started his own first independent collection in 1990.Bal was also chosen by the Khadi Gram Udyog, the largest handloom textile operation in Panchkula, to work with them.Bal has designed costumes for the popular Indian game show Kaun Banega Crorepati.Bal opened a flagship store in Delhi, as well as stores in Mumbai, Bangalore, Ahmedabad, Kolkata and Chennai. Bal has also ventured into designing jewellery. He is best known for his use of lotus and peacock motifs. He frequently uses rich fabrics like velvet, brocade and his designs are elaborate, inspired by Indian grandeur and royalty.He has an international client base that includes Cindy Crawford, Pamela Anderson and Uma Thurman among various Indian celebrities. He is also an ambassador for Omega watche

 

Sabyasachi Mukherjee
Sabyasachi Mukherjee (born 23 February 1974) is an Indian fashion designer, jewellery designer,retailer and couturier from Kolkata,India. Since 1999, he has sold designer merchandise using the label Sabyasachi. Mukherjee is one of the Associate Designer Members of Fashion Design Council of India and the youngest board member of the NationalMuseum of Indian Cinema.He has designed costumes for Bollywood films such as Guzaarish, BaabulLaaga Chunari Mein Daag, Raavan, and English Vinglish.During the summer of 1999, Sabyasachi Mukerjee from the National Institute of Fashion Technology India. Four months later, he started his eponymous label which began with a workforce of three people. In 2001, he won the Femina British Council’s most outstanding young Designer of India award, which took him to London for an internship with Georgina von Etzdorf, an eclectic designer based in Salisbury. Returning home with ideas, Sabyasachi started retailing at all major stores in India.In 2002, Sabyasachi Mukerjee participated at the India Fashion Week which got positive feedbacks from the press. During the spring of 2003, he made his first international runway, with the "Grand Winner Award" at the Mercedes Benz New Asia Fashion week in Singapore, which paved his way to a workshop in Paris by Jean Paul Gaultier and Azzedine Alaia. In his collection "Kora" at the Lakme Fashion Week 2003, he used unbleached and hand woven fabrics with Kantha and other hand embroideries.Sabyasachi Mukherjee`s Autumn Winter 2015 collection at Amazon India Couture Week (AICW) was a collaboration with French luxury footwear and fashion designer Christian Louboutin. 80 pairs of shoes, both for men and women, all embroidered with the quintessential Sabyasachi embroidery and embellished with hand-placed sequins, were created for the show. Louboutin also modified his signature Victoria heel for the collection, to be embroidered with the signature Sabyasachi embroidery using acid dyed burnt zardozi and vintage Parsi gara..The designer has exclusively collaborated with Bergdorf GoodmanNew York for handcrafted pieces of fine and bohemian jewellery during January to March 2020

 

Satya Paul
Satya Paul was born in Leigha, Muzaffargarh in Pakistan, and came to India during the partition times. A pioneer in the industry, he is the founder of 

Shahab Durazi
Shahab Durazi is a designer, who is a one-man show who has laid strict restrictions on his creativity and career. He does not do ad campaigns, nor does 

Shantanu & Nikhil
Known primarily to play their fashion with contemporary styling, Shantanu Mehra and Nikhil Mehra dove into fashion, first with their Indian menswear couture 

Shyamal & Bhumika
Shyamal & Bhumika today is one of India’s leading fashion houses. It seeks inspiration from the rich Indian heritage and culture that is over five thousand years old.The Designer duo work towards reviving India’s precious crafts and artisans techniques to create couture collections relevant to modern day sensibilities.The brand remains faithful to their vision of taking “India to The World” using Fashion as a medium to connect their global audience to intricately crafted Indian Couture. Their unmistakable style results from a perfect balance between tradition and modern aesthetic.

 

Surily Goel 
Surily Goel is an Indian fashion designer.Surily Goel at Tommy Hilfiger product launch event Goel studied at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in Los Angeles. This was followed by her own range of clothing titled "Surily". She broke into the Bollywood film industry when she styled for Preity Zinta in the film Salaam Namaste (2005), produced by Yash Raj Films.Goel made her debut during Lakme Fashion Week in 2006. Her collection was titled Roses Forever. She had Salman Khan, Malaika Arora Khan, and former actress Neelam to model her collection Goel has been trained by fellow designer Manish MalhotraShe did the styling for Preity Zinta once again in Jaan-E-Mann (2006) and worked with acclaimed director Sanjay Leela Bhansali for his film Saawariya

 

Suneet Verma
Suneet Varma (born 1964) is an eminent Indian fashion designer.He launched his first Couture collection in 1987 after returning from Europe where he worked for Yves Saint Laurent to master traditional artisanal techniques. He set up a self-named boutique at DLF Emporio Delhi in 2009.Every year he showcases his couture collection based on a theme . His 2010 collection "The Pirates of Couture" was inspired by fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez`s book Antonio`s Tales from the Thousand & One Nights.

 

Tarun Tahiliani
Tarun Tahiliani is a noted Indian fashion designer. With his wife Sailaja `Sal` Tahiliani, he co-founded Ensemble, India’s first multi-designer boutique in 1987, followed by Tahiliani Design studio in 1990. Based in Delhi, he is best known for his ability to infuse Indian craftsmanship and textile heritage with tailored silhouette.His signature is to combine traditional aesthetics with modern design. Over the years, he also became for his bridalwear.Of late,Tahiliani has taken on several projects in interior design. He has designed interiors for hotels (such as The Sofala, Goa), restaurants (the Aish at the Park, Hyderabad), resorts and homes, and has even begun to event design for Indian weddings.On returning to India, he first joined the family business in oil-field equipments. Eventually, in 1987 he and Sailaja opened the first multi-designer boutique in India, `Ensemble` with help of designerRohit Khosla in Mumbai.The stored featured works of five designers Abu Jani & Sandeep Khosla, Rohit Khosla, Anuradha Mafatlal, American fashion designer Neil Bieff and label Anaya, by Anita Shivdasani and Sunita Kapoor, Anil Kapoor’s wife and their own label, Ahilian. By now, he had started sketching he was still untrained a designer, thus in 1991, he went to Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in New York to study designing.After his return he shifted business to Delhi. When in 1995, British heiress Jemima Khan wore one of his outfit for her wedding to Imran Khan, his work was first noticed.

Wendell Rodricks
Rodricks began his career in fashion by designing for Garden Vareli, Lakmé Cosmetics and DeBeers.When in Paris with his first portfolio in hand, he was advised to put "your country in your clothes".He launched his own label in 1989 with his first show held at the Regal Room of the Oberoi Hotel, Mumbai. His first collection consisted of twelve ensembles, with model Mehr Jesia. Out of these, only six were complete outfits. He did not have enough funds for supplying all models with shoes or bottoms for their organza tunics.Henceforth, Rodricks` work involved a wide range of fashion, from lecturing on world costume history (at SNDT Women`s University) to fashion journalism and styling for international advertising campaigns. He was the first Indian designer to be invited to IGEDO (the world`s largest garment fair) in 1995; the first Indian designer to open the Dubai Fashion Week in 2001and was invited to present at the Paris Fashion Week Pret a Porter salon in 2007 He was a fellowdesign member of the Fashion Design Council of IndiaRodricks dressed many over the decades. When his close friend Lisa Ray decided to get married in 2012, she chose a gown designed by him. In 2014, he paid tribute to actress Rekha at the Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week (WIFW), on the occasion of her 60th birthday. Rodricks helped Deepika Padukone, who had been modelling with him for roughly two years then, grab her role in Om Shanti Om by recommending her to Malaika Arora, who in turn recommended her to Farah Khan in 2007. He also helped Anushka Sharma, launching her as a model in his 2007 Les Vamps Show at the Lakme Fashion Week and encouraged her to move to Mumbai when she was just 18 years old.



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