Je Couturier & Monsieur MFor: Customised shirts and jackets for men, dresses for women
Jennifer Mulchandani at her bazaar Je Couturier, Santacruz. Pic/Shadab Khan
From trousers and jackets for men to a admirable black dress for women, Jennifer Mulchandani can actualize an absolute assignment or bells apparel for you. "Monsieur M, which caters to men, is accepted for its best of fabrics. I appear actuality consistently for tailormade academic shirts. Jennifer helps you customise every detail, appropriate bottomward to the colour of the button thread. And I never abort to add a cipher to my shirts," says Riaan J George, affluence and menswear blogger.As a angular kid who admired clothes, Mulchandani never had fun back out shopping. "Either annihilation fit me or I didn't like what did. I anticipation why not accomplish clothes myself,"she says.Estimated commitment time: 15 daysPrice: Rs 2,400 advanced (tailoring and fabric)At: Shop No. 9, New Diamond Palace, Chapel Lane, SV Road, Santacruz WestCall: 9820841989
'Jennifer helps you customise every detail, appropriate bottomward to the colour of the button thread. And I never abort to add a cipher to my shirts'Riaan J George, menswear blogger
Afshan KhanFor: Customised apparel in colours and fabrics to bout your silhouette
Afshan Khan. Pic/Sneha Kharabe
Afshan Khan, says jewellery artist Shaheen Abbas, works intelligently with bolt and colour to bout your anatomy blazon so you end up attractive your best. She tends to aces peach, pistachio and added pastels back alive with aqueous fabrics, and midnight blue, azure or blooming back planning A-line and beeline fits. "Tell her what you appetite and it's done," says Abbas. "Afshan is acceptable with finish, and accurate back planning both, Indian and Western wear. I adulation her jumpsuits and maxis. They are absolute if you are attractive to stitch article to lounge about in, or plan a few clothes for travel." Khan additionally takes up Indian blithe orders.Estimated commitment time: 7-10 daysPrice: Rs 1,500 advanced (tailoring)At: Benzer Apartments, abreast Gulmohar Gardens, Yari Road, VersovaCall: 9820152051
Malini Shah (Rina's Creations)For: Conjugal lehengas, abreast Indian wear
Malini Shah. Pic/Tanvi Phondekar
Manini Shah's conjugal lehengas and gowns are abreast in design, and action absolute handwork. "She works with you to bear what you accept in mind. I usually abrasion Western apparel and was afraid about accepting an Indian ensemble fabricated for a friend's wedding, but what she crafted was able-bodied cut. The handwork on it was beautiful," says bells columnist Karen Lisa about the azure cigarette pants and bustier with a aureate applique cape.Estimated commitment time: 7-10 daysPrice: Rs 5000 advanced (tailoring and fabric)At: Flat 17, Vaishali Arcade Center, VM Road, Vile Parle WestCall: 7045659096
Govinda Mehta (Raisson D Etre)For: Tuxedos, sherwanis and bandhgalas in a hurry
Govinda Mehta of Excel Garments. Pic/Datta Kumbhar
Govinda Mehta has a different access to colour and apparent treatment. "Govinda's aciculate cuts makes a man attending astute," says Youtuber and amateur Freishia Bomanbehram. "His designs assignment for the avant-garde benedict who doesn't assert on cutting ethnicity on his sleeve. I bethink a acquaintance absitively to get affiliated on an impulse. He was aerial out in three canicule and Govinda nailed the band-gala in the aboriginal fitting."Estimated commitment time: 7-10 daysPrice: Rs 1,500 advanced (tailoring)At: Excel Garments, Veer Nariman Marg, PrabhadeviCall: 9820154911
Perveez AggarwalFor: Sarees and blouses, jackets and stoles with gara embroidery
Parveez Agarwal. Pic/Suresh Karkera
There are alone a scattering of individuals propogating the attitude of Parsi adornment or gara, and Aggarwal is one of them. She, like the blow of her colleagues, is agog to accord the age-old ability aggressive by Chinese embroidery, a abreast circuit to accomplish it accordant to the adolescent buyer. "Her focus is on giving a avant-garde aberration to the intricate assignment that was originally apparent on sarees anesthetized bottomward as heirlooms," says adept announcer Sathya Saran.Interestingly, best of her audience accord alfresco the Parsi community, and are agog admirers of the acceptable designs associted with the craft. Aggarwal's claimed favourites are the chakla-chakli (birds), peacock and foliage designs. "I had already apparent a architecture that featured a man cutting a banquet anorak and a woman in a gown. Unusual vintage. I affliction not acrimonious it up." Aggarwal started the business by accident. During the 1993 Mumbai riots afterward the the consecutive bomb blasts, a few karigars from the basti about her home jumped the coffer to acquisition refuge. "When things got calmer, one thanked me and asked for a job. The alone affair he knew was embroidery," she remembers. "I asked him to carbon one of my grandmother's gara designs, and he did a absolute job. That's how this adventure started."Estimated deliverey time: 15 daysPrice: Rs 10,000 advanced (fabric and embroidery)At: Raheja Chambers, Nariman PointCall: 40509335
Tasneem MerchantFor: Draped/stitched sarees, gowns and customised service
Tasneem Merchant with administration Pranali Added and Sunita Gupta at her studio, Myriad Hues. Pic/Tanvi Phondekar
A academician at the National Institute of Appearance Technology, Tasneem Merchant has a adroitness for compassionate anatomy types and creating apparel that accomplish the ladies feel confident. "Every architecture is different and absorption is accustomed to detail. Go to her for personalised service," says above amateur Aditi Govitrikar.Estimated commitment time: 7-10 daysPrice: Rs 5000 advanced (tailoring and fabric)At: Myriad Hues, adverse Brand Factory, Haji AliCall: 9820909655
Chelsya And Lillian Wemyss (Elle Creations Architecture Studio)For: Catholic conjugal gowns, Indo-Western abrasion with accurate cuts
Lillian Wemyss at assignment at the Elle Creations Architecture Flat in Borivli. Pic/Tanvi Phondekar
Chelsya and Lillian Wemyss are able-bodied accepted in the Catholic conjugal appearance market, but those attractive for black abrasion are additionally fatigued to the duo. They will alike accomplish you an absorbing Indo-western lehenga. The cuts are apple-pie and they add a blow of detail. If you are attractive for categorical finish, attending no more. Chelsya says accoutrement and tassles are new favourites for Catholic brides, as is the use of fuschia and nude blush net.Estimated commitment time: 7-10 daysPrice: Rs 8000 advanced (tailoring and fabric)At: Shop No. 3, Divine Crest, DP Road, IC Colony, Borivli WestCall: 9821572979
Poonam Pamnani (The Stitching Place)For: Kurtas, zardozi embroidery
Poonam Pamnani with abettor Netai Manna at her studio, The Stitching Place. Pic/Tanvi Phondekar
Zardozi adornment is Poonam Pamnani's forte, and she will accomplish you a beauteous ghagra choli, saree blouse or salwar kameez after a bother. "She's quick and best of the time, I apperceive that the accouterments will sit close in the aboriginal fitting. She's acceptable at nailing the architecture you accept in mind," says Bomanbehram. Go to her for crop acme with bean embellishment, kalidar kurtas with gota assignment and stitched sarees. She'll accomplish an aboriginal design, or accommodate article you appearance her from a annual or book.Estimated commitment time: 7-10 daysPrice: Rs 1,500 advanced (tailoring)At: Indrajit Building, Block A, 17th Road, Santacruz WestCall: 9920522535
Perviz DordiFor: Indian and Western formals, abnormally hand-done sarees
Pervin Dordi and babe Diana. Pic/Tanvi Phondekar
Perviz Dordi had a job at a coffer but her affection lay in fashion. A simple dressmaking course, and perseveranace saw her abound into one of South Mumbai's go-to adult if you capital to get an admirable hand-done saree or blouse made. Age has bent up with her, but not abundant to accumulate her abroad from the workshop. Her babe Diana now runs the show, and meets audience alone by appointment. "She'd alarm you for accessories and wouldn't bear unless the clothes got her brand of approval," Saran remembers. Diana now specialises in sarees and blouses, Western tops, all with lace, fair and sequinned work. Diana abstruse the ability at Sophiya Polytechnic, but says annihilation teaches you like watching an expert. "The advantage of actuality her babe was that I got to abrasion alluringly abstract affair dresses," Diana says of Perviz. Her neighbours would appetite a agnate piece, and that's how the business grew.Estimated commitment time: 6-7 daysPrice range: R1,000 advanced (tailoring)At: Block 16, 4th Floor, Rustom Bagh, Byculla.Call: 23718041
Smart And HollywoodFor: Tailored, abstract womenswear
Nafees Ali Ahmed (left) with Main Master of Tailor Imthiyaz Ahmed at again Smart and Hollywood, in Kala Ghoda. Pic/Suresh Karkera
The arbitrary name of this South Mumbai dressmaking enactment refers to the alliance amid two of pre-Independence Mumbai's acclaimed tailors, Smart & Co. and Hollywood Tailors. This was in 1942, says Mumtaz Ahmed Shaikh, co-owner. The absolute handwork, which the owners outsource to bounded craftsmen, leads to admirable results. Saran says, "It acclimated to be our go-to abode to get chic kurtas and long, flowy maxis stitched." They affiance to carbon any architecture you accord them.Estimated commitment time: 6-7 daysPrice: R1,000 advanced (tailoring)At: Esplanade Mansion, Kala GhodaCall: 22843099
'This one is as old as the hills. It acclimated to be our go-to abode for chic kurtas and flowy maxis. The acquaintance of the karigars is axiomatic in the work'Sathya Saran, adept appearance journalist
