A fashion design graduate from NIFT, kumar started his career as a fashion  designer with a Delhi based buying agency, he has also been part of different fashion projects on regular basis.

He has been working with very commercial aspects of fashion since he started his professional carrier in 2002. Being associated with commercial fashion, export and production gave me chance to learn technical and business flow of clothing industry, says kumar.

Talking about his label 5 cross he says, it’s the feeling of doing something with personal taste; it’s the interest to understand clothing and fashion on a different scale and getting involved with people who are molding it, gave birth to 5X. It is a fashion label adding a personal meaning to the definition of women’s fashion.  Operational from Delhi 5X follows 2 major seasons every year with a flash collection every 2 months, he further added.

Currently working as head of design and product development with buying agency called Asmara apparels India pvt. Ltd, kumar retails from Ogaan (Delhi),Anonym(Hyderabad),Aura (Nagpur),Fuel (Mumbai) and Moda in Kuwait.