Richa Bansal Consults provides an array of consultancy services ranging from devising retail strategies and formulating branding blueprints to developing in-house communications and codifying sustainability policies.
When it rains, it pours and when it suns, it’s a blistering, sweltering energy-sapper. Staying cool is all one wants, more so when there’s any commute to be dealt with. The best fabric I am rooting for this season is mul. Soft, featherlight and airy, be it shirts, kurtas or saris, the block prints in summery hues are to die for. If not mul, then there’s linen, khadi, cotton, taant, chiffon, all...
MOREA keen observer of fashion since her early childhood, the style of the ‘bindi’ as it moved up and centre of the film heroine’s forehead, the cut of the kurtis, she commented on all once home, sometimes admonished by her parents. She started her career at a local daily in Guwahati, informally editor-in-charge of the weekly supplements barely three months after she had joined the publication.
Thereafter it was the Press Trust of India, the then premier news agency, Times Internet Ltd (TIL), the dotcom division of the Times of India Group, and then the complete change of path which had more or less begun at TIL to B2B journals on fashion — from Images Business of Fashion to Shoes & Accessories and as India Launch Editor of the iconic Sportswear International, she moved on to Fibre2Fashion.
While at TIL’s 8888 she was instrumental in setting the foundations of content for a very new category of content in sms format, at the B2B journal she was responsible for turning around content and design to make them emerge as the voice of the industry. Post-COVID saw her go entrepreneurial as she cofounded texfash.com, a digital publication that explores the business of textile-apparel-fashion-footwear-accessories industry through the prism of sustainability.
It's a mad rush at most designer studios as the much vaunted couturiers of India Inc are still recovering from the hectic swirl that was the Lakme India Fashion Week (LIFW). Business has been great this year, as good as last year and even better than last year for some. Big orders have been contracted, sampling is on for some major buyers. Many deals have been struck, while some are in the process...
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