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Aachal Rai, fashion designer — black and white portrait
Aachal Rai · Paris

About

Fabric
first.

I am a fashion designer. I trained at Istituto Marangoni Paris, where I was selected as one of ten student designers to present a graduate collection at Espace Niemeyer in July 2023.

My work starts with fabric. Before a silhouette exists I spend weeks manipulating cloth — pleating, pintucks, smocking, line sewing, reweaving upcycled fabric through warp and weft — and let what the material does decide what the garment becomes.

SUIT UP, that graduate collection, took corporate and office wear apart: the architecture of office buildings, the codes of what people wear to work, the small signals of authority held in a lapel or a closure. Six looks, ten months, every textile made by hand.

I am open to design and textile development roles, and to collaboration.

Discipline
Womenswear · Menswear · Textiles
Trained
Istituto Marangoni Paris
Shown
Espace Niemeyer, July 2023
Selected
Top 10 student designers