This portfolio reflects a designer in transition—between instinct and intention, structure and fluidity, and inner experience versus outward form. Rooted in a sensitivity to texture, imperfection, and emotional duality, the work explores what lies beneath the surface. Garments are approached as carriers of feeling, where faded tones, distressed details, and tactile irregularities translate fragmented identities and quiet tensions into material expression.

With a foundation in fashion and a focus on surface development and embroidery, the work bridges craft and concept, drawing from personal introspection and everyday contexts. Rather than pursuing perfection, it embraces rawness, imbalance, and incompleteness as deliberate choices presenting fashion not as a finished statement, but as an ongoing process of questioning and redefinition.

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Noema

A lingering state between wakefulness and fear, Noema captures the after-feeling of a nightmare that refuses to leave the body. Rooted in heritage textiles and shaped through draping and hand-stitching techniques , the collection explores stillness, tension, and the quiet collapse of control—where the body awakens, but the mind remains suspended.

CategoryWomenswear Couture Collection

MethodsDraping, Hand Stitching, Pattern making, Couture Construction

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Voile

A study of soft disconnection—where vision blurs and awareness drifts. The collection translates a fleeting mental absence into form, balancing structure with fluidity. Tailored elements dissolve into movement, creating garments that feel present yet distant, held in a moment of quiet detachment.

CategoryWomenswear

MethodsPattern Making, Garment Construction, Concept Development

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Chann Vel

Drawn from the tragic folklore of Soni–Mahival, Chanveil explores love, loss, and surrender through material storytelling. Motifs, prints, and textures emerge through dyeing and knit explorations, translating narrative into tactile surfaces where memory and myth are embedded into the fabric.

CategoryTextile and Surface Development

MethodsPrint Development, Tie-Dye, Knit Swatches, Surface Exploration

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Yashnoor Kaur

Fashion design student at National Institute of Fashion technology, new Delhi, working through a narrative-led and concept-driven approach where emotion, memory, and subconscious references shape the design process. Visual research and abstract thinking form the starting point, translated into material form through draping, construction, and surface development—allowing garments to carry mood and feeling beyond function.

With a strong inclination toward couture and heritage techniques, the work emphasizes craftsmanship, precision, and refined construction. A minor in fashion accessory design informs a sensitivity toward detail, finishing, and material interaction. The approach balances intuition with structure—articulation with reduction—creating pieces that feel considered yet open-ended.

Drawn to raw, muted, and imperfect aesthetics, the work embraces irregularity and incompleteness as intentional choices. There is often a tendency to approach fashion through an artist’s lens—where expression, emotion, and interpretation take precedence—allowing the work to exist between fashion and art, continuously evolving in its form and meaning.

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Available for Fashion Design Internships.

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