Samant Chauhan news and archive

Samant Chauhan launches flagship in New Delhi

Designer Samant Chauhan launched his first ever store called ‘Studio D4’ New Delhi’s at Defence Colony. Though he wanted to unveil the first store in his home-town Patna, it got delayed and the designer went ahead with the Delhi store kick-starting a retail journey of his creations. The store stocks his Chauhan’s Rajputana collection, which has...

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Samant Chauhan to launch flagship in Patna

Designer Samant Chauhan, who hails from a village near Bhagalpur in Bihar, is opening his first flagship store in Patna seeing tremendous growth and demand in fashion and lifestyle in Tier-II, Tier-III cities. Apart from opening a store in Patna in the first week of February, the designer is looking to another store in the capital (New Delhi)....

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Chauhan gets eco mention

Before enrolling himself in NIFT for a postgraduate program in 2002, Samant Chauhan was a relatively unknown face in the fashion world. Subsequently the designer made headlines for making non-violent silk a way of life. The silk used for his collections is hand woven and made from an eco-friendly process without the use of dyes. After having...

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Ethical fashion rules the ramp

The Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week 2011 spring/summer held recently in New Delhi, focused on going green environment-friendly clothing, which is the new buzz in fashion circle these days. Thanks to the international markets craving for ethical fashions, most Indian designers focused on traditional weaving techniques and natural fabrics as...

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Samant Chauhan impresses royalty

Young designer Samant Chauhan, a rising star in the Indian fashion designers’ firmament is an alumnus of NIFT New Delhi, and rose to acclaim with three awards in 2004. The following year, young Chauhan scored internationally with an award winning men’s collection at Singapore Fashion week’05 (AYFDC). His passion is natural fibers and he...

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Top Designers take to Indian Fabrics

India’s traditional fabrics like raw silk, cotton, jute are finding favor among top designers raring to break new ground in the highly competitive Indian fashion market. The tendency to ape Western cuts and styles in recent years has seen the country’s own rich craftsmanship take a backseat. But at this year’s Wills India Fashion Week, classic...