Sabyasachi Mukherjee is an Indian fashion designer renowned for his appealing and harmonious designs. A native of Kolkata, the city of joy, Sabyasachi Mukherjee attended the St. Xaviers college and later applied to NIFT, Kolkata without informing his parents. Contrary to his expectations, he was chosen and he joined NIFT, Kolkata, a premiere fashion designing school to hone his design skills.
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Since 1999, Sabyasachi Mukherjee sells under label Sabyasachi and has also designed for a few bollywood films including Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Black, Ravi Chopra’s Baabul and Yashraj Films’ Laaga Chunari Mein Daag.
Sabyasachi Mukherjee completed his graduation from the National Institute of Fashion Technology and received three awards including Best Design Collection- NIFT, Kolkata, Best Design Collection –NIFT, All India and the coveted Ritu Kumar Award for Excellence in Design. He immediately launched his eponymous label named Sabyasachi that today retails in the biggest stores worldwide.
In the year 2001, Sabyasachi Mukherjee was awarded the most outstanding young Designer of India Award by Femina British Council and he moved to London for an internship with the versatile designer Georgina Etzdorf. Sabyasachi Mukherjee’s debut collection at the Lakme India Fashion Week, 2002 earned immense appreciation from media and since then he showcases his designs in the LIFW every year. Sabyasachi Mukherjee entered the international fashion scene in 2003 when he was declared the grand winner at the Mercedes New Asia fashion week in Singapore. In 2004, Sabyasachi Mukherjee was voted as one of the ten most influential Indians in Asia by Asia Inc, a Singapore based business magazine.
In addition to Lakme Indian Fashion Week and Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week, Sabyasachi Mukherjee has showcased his collections at several fashion fiestas including the fashion weeks at London, Milan and New York. Sabyasachi Mukherjee’s collection blends together a vintage element with contemporary feel. He is extremely concerned about the fabric and at times uses burned and bleached fabrics to give them the right tone and texture. His favorite fabrics include cotton voils, georgettes, chiffons and organza. Sabyasachi Mukherjee’s style mantra is fusion and his design philosophy is straight and simple – ‘Intuition makes a garment work not rules ’.
He has impeccably experimented with kantha-stich, a traditional Bengali embroidery form. Sabyasachi Mukherjee loves to travel and often his designs are based on the hippie and nomad culture. He retails his label, Sabyasachi all over India, through popular fashion outlets like Oogan, Oorja, Melange, Carma, and Espee.
Apart from womenswear, Sabyasachi Mukherjee has ventured into jewelry, interiors and is soon going to do kidswear and menswear. He is presently working on the expansion of his label which is still in phase one of expansion. He has planned phase two to concentrate on the masses while phase three will involve a complete range of lifestyle products. However Sabyasachi Mukherjee’s chief priority will always be fashion as it is his core business. After opening a store in Delhi last year, Sabyasachi Mukherjee’s new stores will open shortly in Kolkata, Mumbai and Dubai.
Immensely inspired by art, Sabyasachi Mukherjee’s three favorite painters include Paul Gauguin, Frida Kahlo and Amrita Shergil. He is also planning to plunge into bollywood as a filmmaker.
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