Fashion

Maharashtra resident Sara Lakhani launched a collection where she made clothes with Kantha embroidery using plastic waste, landing a spot on Lakme Fashion Week 2022.

Delhi's Vishakha Bhaskkar and Manipur's Asana Riamei launched Angrakhaa, a size-inclusive fashion clothing brand to honour people's individualities and varied body sizes.

Vishakha Bhaskkar and Asana Riamei, co-founders of a size-inclusive clothing brand ‘Angrakhaa’, highlight how the fashion industry discriminates against those who do not fit in the conventional size charts.

With Chappers, Pune entrepreneur Harshvardhan Patwardhan is giving new and customisable spins to traditional Kolhapuri chappals, selling across US, UK and more, and earning crores.

It was a chance internship at Auroville, Pondicherry, which transformed Soumya’s ideas on sustainable fashion as a student, eventually leading to her launching an eco-friendly fashion brand Hibiscus Heroes, in 2020.

Paresh Patel of Gujarat is a third generation weaver whose family is carrying forward the ‘Ashavali brocade’ technique of weaving with the handloom set up by his grandfather.

Design student Sara Lakhani launched Trash or Treasure to turn plastic into ethnic wear using kantha embroidery. Her initiative won her an opportunity to showcase her work at Lakme Fashion Week.

Alka Sharma explains what inspired her to launch Aavaran, which uses the eco-friendly and ancient dabu printing style to make a wide variety of clothes and is helping many artisans find financial independence.

Tamil Nadu resident and MBA graduate Karthick G launched Pikbig, a ‘boutique on wheels’ that brings the experience of shopping for clothes right to the customer’s doorstep.

Delhi resident Nirvaan Somany is using old denim jeans to make sleeping bags for street dwellers to stay warm in the harsh winter. He shares how he does this.