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Wednesday, 29 January 2014

An A – list favorite Anamika Khanna

Good fashion has a clear sparkle; it silences dissent. Good fashion doesn’t need to grab attention; it inevidently gets all of it. And if that fashion is designed by a designer like Anamika Khanna, it rarely ceases any applause. Her initiation into fashion was more than 15 years back only because Theffolio store in Bangalore and Ogaan in Delhi bought what she created for the world of fashion.



She is a designer based in Kolkata, India. However hard to believe, the designer does not have any formal training in fashion designing and she is the first designer from India to launch an international label, and along with Manish Arora, the first to show at Paris Fashion Week.


She along with designer Manish Arora were invited to showcase the brand at the Paris Fashion Week in 2007, becoming the first fashion designers from India to do so. She is also the Associate Design member of Fashion Design Council of India.
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She begins and ends her designs with the approach and use of traditional Indian and modern methods, a combination hardly used by many fashion designers.Her designs focus on including texturing with various embroideries in the clothing.Cliched exclamations fill the air when hershow ends. The applauses garnered by the audience are usually hearty, and a lot of them are from fashion industry stalwarts.

Like said before, good fashion always just gets attention without trying. She believes in similar logic which has led her to  not hire a PR Firm in the last 15 years of her career as a designer. Without a PR company to dress up her collection, she usesa word like “freedom” to explain the spirit and style of her collections.

When you dive more into the designer profile of Anamika Khanna, the more likely fashion – gyaan you will get. As the years pass by, her audience and clientele base have grown.

  •  In 2004, she received nearly 2 million pounds of funding to launch her international label Ana-Mika, the first ever for an Indian designer.

  • In 2005, the designer showcased her spring or summer collection at Wills India Fashion Week titled The Botanist.

  • In 2008, Anamika's collection at the HDIL India Couture Week was well received in the industry. The collection was inspired from the drape of Indian dhoti that was closely associated with Mahatma Gandhi. Fine cotton, chiffons, satins and georgettes were used for the collection. The line focused on cuts, drapes and comfort instead of embellishments.

  • In 2009, Khanna was the finale designer at Lakme Fashion Week (LFW) Fall/Winter 09.

  • In 2010, Anamika along with other Indian designers participated in The India Premier London Fashion Week.

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She has been an influential role player with Bollywood Actresses and their styling. In October 2012 issue, Sonakshi Sinha was on the Harper's Bazaar cover, styled by Anamika.


Recently, she dressed the saree dhoti outfit of Bollywood actress Soha Ali Khan at brother Saif Ali Khan's wedding.She has also styled the look of actress Sonam Kapoor for the movie Delhi-6 , Aisha and Bhaag Milkha Bhaag.

With such a great portfolio and design base to look at, it is obvious for awards and accolades to follow. Some of the many titles earned by Anamika Khanna are the Kingfisher Award for the fashion designer of the year 2004, Audi RITZ Icon Awards 2011, Damania Fashion Award, Texcellence Award.

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