Sabyasachi Mukherjee is an Indian fashion designer, born on 23rd February,

1974 to a middle class bengali family in Manicktala, Kolkata. Since the very beginning of his
childhood, he had a keen interest in handicrafts and craftsmanship. At the age of 15, he
decided to express his interest in fashion. However, when his father lost his job and his
parents refused to support him, he ran away from home, worked as a waiter in Goa to get the
money for National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) exam. He managed by selling all
his books and solely paid his education through relentless hard work and graduated from
NIFT in 1999.

He, then, started his self titled label in a small shop in Kolkata with a 20,000 rupees borrowed
from his sister and hired two other designers to be his colleagues. But he was still very far
from his career’s first major break, which came 2 years later. In 2001, he won the Femina
British Council’s most outstanding Young Designer of India award, which took him to
London for his internship with an eclectic designer Georgina von Etzdorf based in Salisbury
(London).Upon his return to India, he took to retail store presence in India in a major way. He
debuted at the Indian Fashion Week in 2002, where Women’s Wear Daily praised and
proclaimed him as the future of Indian Fashion. During Spring 2003, he won the Grand
Winner Award at the Mercedes Benz New Asia Fashion week in Singapore. He introduced a
new design ‘Kora’, which received a thunderous response from the national and international
fashion critics. In 2004, he participated in Kuala Lumpur Fashion Week and The Miami
Fashion Week. He experimented and mixed the traditional Indian attire with bohemian
fashion and named the line ‘The Frog Princess’. In 2005, he was requested to showcase his
collection “The Nair Sisters” at the Oxford University black tie charity dinner fashion show
held annually. In 2006, his debut Spring Summer collection’07 at New York Fashion Week
got him crucial acclaim. As a result of which, his label started to sell worldwide. In August
2012, he closed the 3rd edition of PCJ Delhi Couture Week. At the Vogue Wedding Show
2016, he launched his jewellery line (designed by himself in 2008), in association with the
GAJA brand. At the Grand Finale of Lakme Fashion Week Spring Summer’09, he launched
his menswear collection of Kurtas, Sherwanis and headgear. Such is the power of Sabyasachi
Designs that he started kids wear under the label Chota Sabhya. He is one of the designers to
have brought Khadi on the international platform.

KORA THE FROG PRINCESS JEWELLERY THE NAIR SISTERS MENSWEAR & KIDSWEAR