For them the journey has just begun; the road has not been easy but surely interesting. Each passing day has been more creative and challenging making the ultimate goal clearer. The desire to splurge beauty in each piece that Nidhi and Divya make, to have people dressed up fashionably held the reins of creating their label, Walnut. Since then they have successfully been a part of Lakme Fashion Week for consecutively four seasons now.
After studying Fashion from National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT), New Delhi, they worked as a costume designer for Bollywood flick, ‘Bunty aur Babli’ under the guidance Designer Aki Narula, and styled film stars like Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Rani Mukherjee.
From there, Divya moved on to work with designer Varun Bahl, and Nidhi styled models for prestigious brands like International Wedding magazine, Asiana Weddings and various other fashion labels, like Globus.
- concepts and innovations vary from Indo-western to western
- the brand runs into prêt, diffusion and couture
- makes a rare attempt to let woman experiment with various concepts and innovations to go bizarre
Nidhi says, “The fashion industry is increasing day by day and there is soo much to offer from various designers that you can’t really define fashion and thus we don’t know the future of fashion but we do know where we are heading to. Till now WALNUT has been known for designing for a perfect body by creating basic soft structured classic silhouette, emphasizing more on the surface which add a value to the garment. But now we want to experiment with more easy silhouettes for varied body sizes of Indian women. So you might see an easy fit dress to a floor trailing evening dress or may be a new twist with some drapes.
Their first collection was named ‘Spring’ was designed for a fashionable New York girl who races ahead of time. The creation offered great options in western wear that were eminently wearable. Creations that was capable of transforming any evening into that special, magical one. With basic silhouettes to maintain options for wearability, the garments were exceptionally detailed with the use of cordings and prints. Presently, Walnut retails through various multi brand stores in India, Chamomile, Aza, Re and Amara in Mumbai, Aura in Nagpur, Anonym in Hyderabad, Soh-Koh clothing in Chandigarh to name a few.
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