Born in the well known fashion Mecca of India, Mumbai, Archana Kochhar is an India based fashion designer.

As a young girl Archana grew up in the cosmopolitan hub of Mumbai, Bandra. Her surroundings and the energies of this great city highly influenced her outlook to life. Soon after completing her Bachelors in Commerce Archana did her Business Administration where she learnt the fine art of backing creativity with business.  The fires of passion for style and creative designing of women's  wear led to Archana setting up her own fashion design studio.Archana has a lineage of 3 stores in the city of Mumbai from where she caters to the luxury needs of the fashion conscious buyer.Her design sensibility is a perfect marriage between exclusive embroideries and nouveau texturizing techniques all in luscious color palettes making each ensemble a must have season after season.

As her acclaim graph gets higher and higher with each season not only was she invited by Galleries L’Fayette, Paris, to present her collection with leading fashion brands world over, like KENZO, UNGARO, CHRISTIAN LACROIX, amongst others but Bollywood glitterati comprising of Kangana Ranaut, Eisha Kophikar, Diana Hayden Dia Mirza, Sameera Reddy, Amrita Rao, Mahima,  Minisha Lamba, Urvashi Sharma, Raima Sen, PariJzad Zorabian Jaqueline Fernandes are a few of those who rank her as a favorite.

A fashion career spanning close to 2 decades with a very distinct, urban sense of styling and a high level of comfort with international fabric and styles epitomizes the ensemble of Babita Malkani, ‘Babita M’.
She launched her very own signature store called ‘Babita M’ in 2007, Mumbai which is today a well established label in India and abroad. Apart from these, she has been a part of various fashion shows
like Dubai Fashion week, Bangalore Fashion week, Global Runway’s Night out New York, Lakme Fashion week and more, and has received great reviews on all of them.

After graduating from Babson College, GAYATRI KHANNA moved to New York and worked with various garment companies before getting a job at Saks Fifth Avenue as a buyer for designer wear. Her initial experience in New York gave her the confidence of going solo and in May 2000, Gayatri ventured out to incorporate Milaaya Embroideries in the US and India.  A range of global couture fashion houses like Lanvin, Versace, Roberto Cavalli, Gucci, Chloe to Prêt collections like Nicole Miller, Anna Sui, etc., get their precise cuts, embroideries and finishes done at Milaaya. Currently, Gayatri manages and operates Milaaya from offices in high fashion capitals; New York, Milan, Paris and Mumbai.

 GAYATRI also boasts of a bollywood celebrity clientele like Aishawarya Rai Bachchan, Shilpa Shetty, Priyanka Chopra, Bipasha Basu, and many more. Owing to its western European look, it has been associated with prestigious international brands like Swiss Guess Watches, Audi, Mercedes Benz, Blender’s Pride, Jean-Claude Biguine ,The Indian Premier League –Cricketing tournament, Portico New York and the award winning play Vagina Monologues.

“Pastiche” is the brainchild of Smruti Dhanuka a graduate from London College of Fashion, she started developing her skills from early college days by gaining valuable experience with a niche evening wear brand in London ‘Popart Clothing’ and later in India she worked with a leading Fashion export house ‘Mandhana Industries Ltd’ as a Senior women’s wear designer which gave her an insight into the global fashion business and understanding to launch her own label. Smruti constantly creates a distinctive fashion environment that gives clientele individuality. She persistently tries and evolves her product range to meet the fashion needs of today’s women.

\"Lable -S2o - it is the result of the creative forces of Sonia Verma and Sharad Raghav coming together.the lable does not create mere designs but distinct personas fulfilling the needs of men looking for high end ethinic wear with a unique touch of modernity, sophistication, playfulness and comfort.\"