In 1998 the Fashion Design Council was set up to promote the fashion industry in India to face the upcoming market. The main aim of the council was to promote Pret –a-Porter and Diffusion wears in the market. So for the designer fraternity Lakme India fashion week was the National platform to showcase their talent. LIFW provides the designers with national and international level of business interaction.
Hemant Trivedi graduated from the Australian Technical Institute of Fashion Design, where in the history of that institute he was the first male student to have successfully graduated. And later on he went to New York to study at Fashion Institute of Technology.
Rocky S was a commerce graduate but he felt a strong inclination towards designing rather than commerce so he joined the J.D institute of Fashion Design. And after graduating from there he got a job as a designer at a departmental store in Mumbai named Roopam.
Sabyasachi Mukherjee from the city of Kolkatta uses to sell junk jewellery and then came into designing by graduating from NIFT in 1999 with three awards to his credit, Soon after four months after graduation he launched his own label known as “Sabyasachi” which retailed to major stored across India.
Rohit Bal is known as the “Master of fabric and fantasy” by Times magzine. He was born in Kashmir and he moved to the capital to pursue his education. He graduated from St. Stephens college Delhi in history Hons. And he also did a course at NIFT where he learnt the art of designing from cutting to stitching the garment. And then after that in 1986 he joined his brothers business of exports to gain experience.
Tarun Tahiliani started his career with a Management Degree from the University of Wharton , when he came back to India he followed his family business of machine tools but later on he felt a huge inclination towards the fashion industry and the huge market for it.
The name associated with royalty and antiquity of the past and transforming the past into the present couture is JJ Valaya. He was born on 8th October 1967 in Jodhpur in Rajasthan and from the beginning he excelled in arts and that’s what brought him into fashion designing and his Excellency in arts, we can see it in the brilliant trousseau which he designs.
The entry of Manish Malhotra into Bollywood came with David Dhawan giving him a chance to design for the lead role that was Juhi Chawla in Swarg and at that time he was just 25 years. He actually started of by working in a Boutique by draping garments over the mannequin.
The name Neeta Lulla is associated with the fashion fraternity or the glamour world of today. To start with as a career she started as a fashion choroegrapher as an assistant to Jeanne Naoroji , in the late 80’s.
