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The person who enriched the Fashion
Industry and Film Industry of India by his creative designs is none other than Manish
Malhotra. Born in a family of economically middle class status in Punjab in
1965 he was fascinated with the fashions from his early days of life though
nobody in his family was well-known to the style of clothing. During his
student life in Mumbai's Elphinstone College he got a few assignments relating
to modeling that he completed successfully. Even though he felt interest in
fashion design his father wished Manish to look after his business. Without paying
heed to his father's advice he paid attention to create something on his
own.
Self-confidence about his talent took him to
the peak in the field of fashion design in spite of having no specialized
schooling on it as he had no enough money to carry out his educational
expenses. Failing to have higher education on fashion, he devoted himself to
fashion design for Bollywood. Within a very short time, he gained huge popularity
as a designer for the film industry.
He got his inspiration about fashion design
from every sphere of life such as reading magazines, going social parties,
watching movies etc. And gradually he started working as a model by profession
and then through joining a fashion house Equinox in Bandra from where he learnt
how to make design, sales, customer services and display. He designed not only
for the elite class but also for the ordinary people.
With rich background designing he turned
into a promising movie director and planned to engage himself in script for his
preparing directorial venture in 2008, which would be like the cinema in the
seventies.
First hit
In 1990 Manish, turning 25, started his
career through getting the chance to design the costumes for fascinating Juhi
Chawla who appeared in Swarg, a film of Bollyhood. He gained popularity when he
designed the outfits for mesmerizing Urmila Matondkar who acted in the film named
Rangeela. Manish repeatedly showed his success in the design of Karishma
Kapoor's attire and lifted her position through Raja Hindustani. At the same
time he also designed a few attires for Sridevi that added another feather to
his success. Consequently the outfits designed by Manish smartened many actresses
of film industry of India.
In a few years, he climbed to the top of
his profession by his triumphant achievement in the fashion arena and gave the
Bollywood a completely new look.
Enormous success in the costume design in
Bollywood encouraged Manish to enter the mainstream designing field in 1998
when he established Reverie, a couture store with high profile and his own
designing studio Sheetal that received an implausible response
Apart from making attires with attractive
design for Juhi Chawla and Urmila Matondkar, he made designs for almost all top
actresses' outfits like Sridevi, Shilpa Shetty, Manisha Koirala, Aishwarya Rai,
Rani Mukherjee and Preity Zinta.
He got specialized in women attire with
modern styles. The glamorous design of outfits in Bollyhood means the design of
Manish Malhotra.
Although he is very known to be a designer
of women attire, he has made attire for male actors like Amitabh Bachchan, Shah
Rukh Khan, Aamir Khan and Saif Ali Khan on several occasions.
Bridal attires
Manish not only designed attires for the
Bollyhood stars but also he designed the wedding trousseaus for some of the
most beautiful and high profile people in the country including Vilasrao
Deshmukh's Family, Narayan Rane's Family, Praful Patel's Family, Ruia's Family, Sharmila Thackrey, Neerja
Birla, the Dhoot Family, the Hinduja Family, etc. He has also designed
trousseaus for several weddings of effluent families from in Indoneasia, Dubai,
London, Canada, America, Thailand, South Africa, Singapore and all across the
globe.
Clientele
The Manish's salon received a tremendous
response from elite client list like Parmeshwar Godrej, Tanya Godrej, Tina
Ambani, Haseena Jethmalani, Rhea Pillai, Avanti Birla and Sheetal Mafatlal
Merged foreign actors and actress
The most popular media celebrity Naomi
Campbell wears Manish's outfits. Michael Jackson was also fascinated with
design made by Manish when he visited India for a Bollywood show. Apart from
them, Hollywood stars Reese Witherspoon Jean Claude Van Damme were the client
of Manish.
Award
In his career spanning 18 years he has
received nearly 34 awards for his marvelous workings. For the first time he was
awarded Filmfare Costume Award for Urmila Matondkar's costumes in Rangeela, the
Showtime Opinion Poll Award for his beautiful look for Karisma Kapoor in Raja
Hindustani.
In 2008 the fashion designed and styled by
Manish for Deepika Padukone in Om Shanti Om won the Apsara Awards in Mumbai,
the Lux Zee Cine Awards in London and the IIFA awards in Bangkok. Besides, he
won many famous awards for his contribution to the fashion industry.
Show
To promote his creation, Manish Malhotra organized
the first fashion show in November 1999 and his new collection was showcased at
Lakme Fashion Week in April 2006 in Mumbai. His Winter Couture 2007 collection
in November, 2007 was uncovered at Manish Malhotra Store at Jumeirah in Dubai.
Besides, annual Lakme Fashion Week (LFW)
Spring/Summer 2008 was held at the National Center of Performing Arts (NCPA) in
Mumbai in October, 2007.
Enamul Haque
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