Jenjum Gadi may open a store this year

Having established his credentials with his designs

promising young designer Jenjum Gadi is now chalking out plans to open his store by March-April this year. He currently retails from multi-label stores in Mumbai, Kolkata and Hyderabad, and his studio in the Capital, while a project with the Meghalaya Government involving the weavers there is also in the pipeline.

It may be recalled that last October Gadi experimented with shiny gota ribbons for his Spring/ Summer 2013 show in the Capital, calling it “An Ode to Gota”. He incorporated it into clothes created an interesting textured honeycomb-pattern. For three years, the Wigan & Leigh College (Delhi campus) graduate presented his work under the label Koga, which he started with batch-mate Jasleen Kochhar. With the Autumn/ Winter 2012-13 line he showcased last February, the designer launched his own eponymous label Jenjum Gadi.

Seeing Gadi’s final collection at Wigan & Leigh, for which he won the ‘Best Collection’ prize, Rohit Bal promptly offered him a job. Gadi took it up, spending seven months at the veteran’s studios. He then left it to start Koga.