Mirandola Designs
Industry: Textile, Apparel and Handicrafts
Headquarters: Mumbai, Maharashtra
Website: www.mdesigns.co
Cohort: 2021
Mirandola Designs is a handwork export house with manufacturing capacities only in India. They take pride in the workmanship and detail that goes in our collections. Through an intensely iterative process, they channel tradition into contemporary, taking care to preserve the integrity of the original. They cover almost every aspect of hand embroideries from couture to garments, denims, patches for leather goods and shoes, direct leather embroideries and difficult surfaces. Founded In 2011, today their clients consist of couture fashion houses, interior designers, apparel brands and manufacturers in Europe, the US and Asia. Since late 2018, they have successfully worked on executing production at crafts clusters in home villages—taking work directly to the craftspeople so they can have fair wages, sustained dignified livelihoods and single-family units.
About the Entrepreneur
FOUNDER & CREATIVE DIRECTOR
Smita Singh is an alumnus of the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad (NID). She has been involved in the Indian crafts sector for over a decade, having worked extensively in cluster developments, handloom development, workshops for craftsmen, and concept communication development. Smita has worked with export houses as well as in design education in India. Her ability to understand the nuances and profundity while designing and her thirst to achieve perfection makes her a designer with diverse sensibilities. Smita is the founder of Mirandola Designs – she oversees designs and production for luxury fashion houses, interiors companies as well as high street brands.